I think it depends on if it was included in the swap agreement. There are lots of 7 to midnight country shows available.
Entercom tends to avoid such things if possible, preferring to VT local talent.
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WNSH To Stay Country
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I think it depends on if it was included in the swap agreement. There are lots of 7 to midnight country shows available.
Entercom tends to avoid such things if possible, preferring to VT local talent.
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andreajesus
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and probably will be for at least a little while - the big change in the NY radio landscape isn't Nash (or not Nash)-FM - but what happens with 95.5 (and company) later on this summer....
Entercom came right out and said in plain English that there would initially be no changes to Nash. So, this isn't a surprise at all.
Just like other K-Love flips, it will unceremoniously change to the satellite feed at the predetermined date and time. What will be interesting is to see what, if anything, PLJ will do as a farewell. The station doesn't really mean all that much to anyone under age 45. It's good years a long behind it.
Charlie Van Dyke will have a brief, pre-produced introduction.
The only other station Entercom has with the Nash branding is WHLL, Nash Icon, also being acquired from Cumulus.
The sole advantage I can think of for them to keep the Nash brand for 94.7 is that it has been marketed as such for over 6 years, so country music listeners and sponsors are familiar with it. As Entercom generally does not carry much syndicated programming on their music stations, is it likely they will give the station a new name, and drop the Cumulus produced country shows that air after 7 pm?
Perhaps part of the sales agreement is that Nash programming has to be carried on 94.7 till the sale closes.
The sole advantage I can think of for them to keep the Nash brand for 94.7 is that it has been marketed as such for over 6 years, so country music listeners and sponsors are familiar with it. As Entercom generally does not carry much syndicated programming on their music stations, is it likely they will give the station a new name, and drop the Cumulus produced country shows that air after 7 pm?
Perhaps part of the sales agreement is that Nash programming has to be carried on 94.7 till the sale closes.
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Everything they said about 94.7 likely applies here.
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but yet, i can't imagine 'PLJ goin off without a somewhat sappy goodbye - after all, the call letters have a HUGE history in NY
but yet, i can't imagine 'PLJ goin off without a somewhat sappy goodbye - after all, the call letters have a HUGE history in NY
The call letters have no value to anyone under age 50. The station has been a non-factor in NY for close to 30 years. Yes...a nod to Power 95 and New York's Best Rock would be cool, but almost nobody cares at this point.
I hope they do get rid of the Syndicated programming minus the American Country Countdown. It sounds like crap and their station often has horrible mistakes it sounds like a station in rural America. They need to do more promotions around the NYC area. It would be nice to see the WYNY calls return to NYC as Y 94.7 or 94.7 WYNY FM. I miss 103.5 WYNY.
An AM station in PA has those letters right now.
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andreajesus
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as long as they give a "nod", as you put it to their history, i would be fine with that. Again, I say, those call letters have a HUGE history in the Big Apple.....
No, the Empire State Building, the MTA, all three Madison Square Gardens, Wall Street, Broadway and the New York Yankees have a huge history in the Big Apple. Call letters matter only to radio geeks, and WPLJ only mattered to a very narrow demographic in its best remembered incarnation -- as an album rock station, and hardly a pioneering one (that would have been WNEW-FM). The "other" WPLJ was just another hit CHR station, and wasn't even such for a full decade. AOR WPLJ only lasted 12 years. Huge history, I think not.
Owing to the speed with which large changes occur in New York, many of us cling to certain elements of the past. For instance, I refuse to call Sixth Avenue by any other name, and shall ever mourn the loss of Penn Station. A few radio fans remain hopeful that music will return to WABC and that specific call signs will remain in perpetuity. Some losses are simply ineluctable, however.
Incidentally, the number of Madison Square Gardens is four, not three.
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but yet, i can't imagine 'PLJ goin off without a somewhat sappy goodbye - after all, the call letters have a HUGE history in NY
It would be great if they went back to their Album rock days, jingles and all for a few days as a send off. They then could follow it with the 80's CHR period and work their way up through each period.
I was initially not happy with the change from Album rock and remember listening to Larry Berger discussing the change on-air for quite awhile. But as it turns out those first few years during that CHR period 83-85 were pretty good. During that time the mix of going from rock or Alt rock hits to pop was not all that jarring. That was it for me after that, it was down hill from there. The Power 95 or PLJacksons thing sounded pretty childish and stupid.
I have worked for several different companies over the last 25 years. "Let's cling to the past" is not something you will ever hear in a well operated business.
Especially one whose lone product is targeted at younger consumers. 18-34 or 25-44 are both subject to musical fads -- that goes for pop as well as rock listeners. Going back to a sound that was even 10 years old in the late '80s (when, in the poster's opinion, WPLJ got "childish" and "silly") would have lost the station much of its core audience. That said, there's nothing wrong with nostalgia on the final night before WPLJ becomes a satellite-fed, nonprofit drone. I doubt there will be the sarcastic jibes at evangelical Christianity that marked the final shifts at WCCC Hartford, simply because WCCC was a small-potatoes independent classic rocker while WPLJ is being sold by a radio giant, but one night for the radio geeks for old times' sake would hurt no one.
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