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WNYC FM to Dump Music Shows

It's true WFUV carries some NPR music programs but that doesn't help WNYC on the original subject of this thread, namely that New York Public Radio has these music shows that they didn't feel had a place on WNYC any more because they stated they wanted to make it a full-time News-Talk station. The obvious solution would be for WNYC to own a third channel, if one ever became available, dedicated specifically to current/world/eclectic/local music. That would allow them to expand, not cancel their music programming.

Fortunately WNYC decided not to cancel those shows after all, but I still think the 3-channel strategy has merit. In the example market I mentioned, Minnesota Public Radio offers News, Classical and Current music stations in Minneapolis-St Paul. And then there are separate full-power, non-com FMs run by other entities in that market offering Jazz (KBEM/Jazz 88), Variety (KFAI) and College music formats (KUOM). The market supports them all, and of course it's a smaller market than NYC.

So I was just pondering how things could go in the future. New York Public Radio seems like a well funded operation with the capacity to produce a lot of shows, apparently more than they currently have room for on air.
 
CTListener said:
Theater of My Mind asked for places with three NPR stations, not two, but a situation similar to the one you cite exists across the state of Vermont, when Vermont Public Radio operates news/talk and music (classical) stations. No contemporary non-classical music is offered, though.
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I forgot to mention that Sacramento does in fact have 3 stations with NPR affiliations the first two I mentioned earlier was Cap Radio which owns KXJZ and KXPR. The third is KQEI-FM 89.3 a Sacramento translator for KQED-FM 88.5 San Francisco.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
It seems like New York Public Radio could use an additional FM signal so they could offer separate News, Classical and (contemporary) Music channels. Minnesota Public Radio does this, and their Current music format sounds fantastic. How many other other markets are there where the main public radio organization is structured with three distinct channels like this too?
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Why would they need an additional FM signal? They already have HD channels, HD-2 WQXR and HD-3 WNYC (AM) simulcasts.
 
Barry said:
According to AllAccess, the station will broaden its focus on news/talk. As a result, they will eliminate all of their music programs. The article states that one of the shows being dropped is New Sounds, which had run for 37 years.


No More Music Programming on WNYC:https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/...f-new-york-cancels-new-sounds-most-other-musi
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Ion some ways you have to feel bad for fans of the music programs that WNYC use to air if they dropped them already, if not soon to drop, are there any where else they can go to hear them if they are syndicated shows, or if they are more local shows, can another station somewhere in New York City pick them up?
 
They still have music weekend nights- I heard Steven Bishop's, Save it For a Rainy Day 2 Saturday's ago. I am not sure if I was more surprised that I heard that song that I really like or that I heard Paul Cavalconte hosting the show. Kind of cool to hear both coming across that Mid-Hudson Bridge on a lazy evening in the Hudson Valley.
 
Fortunately, Mr. Cavalconte will continue to host "Weekend Mornings" (which includes "Sunday Vinyl") on WQXR.
 
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