WNYZ ratings up 16%, cume up 10%

[nd2023]

0.7 share, 766,000 cume
I bet it surpasses a million this summer.
The improved signal in NJ should help, and I estimate they'd gain .2 share if the 87.9 pirate station was shut down.
The fact that last summer, it was easy for me to call in and get a request played rather quickly, and this summer it's usually busy explains a lot.

Pulse 87 would have a 3.5 share on a full market signal.

 

[Gusto]

The fact that last summer, it was easy for me to call in and get a request played rather quickly, and this summer it's usually busy explains a lot.

radio stations do not play requests. that was coincidence....like when little girls ask for souja boy, and it plays within 15 minutes, the DJ pretends he hooked it up when in fact it was already scheduled. jocks get fired when they alter the logs as they are predetermined sometimes a week in advance.

 

[Wildstyle K]

Actually, I believe requests can be taken and played during certain rare occasions...
I remember when KZON first converted from talk to rhythmic and I wanted to test to see how far they'd go with their "rhythmic" label, I requested "love you down" by Inoj. This song was not on the playlist at all, ESPECIALLY for an urban sounding station (which it was very much so at the time) in Phoenix. The lady who answered said she'd see if she could get it in there next. To my surprise, she got it in there as the next song!

It has never been played again (outside of a pre-done back in the day noon mixshow from a dj who did specialized mixes for certain stations) on that station, and despite the fact they are showing more of their rhythmic side now, it would most likely not be played if it were requested again today. It was funny because as the station was still new, they had a very limited playlist of only modern rhythmic hits, then out of no where, "love you down" by Inoj from 1997 pops up.

The last times I ever got a request played that was not a normal radio song was when I requested "Until tomorrow" by Adriana during the Power Workout at Noon mixshow in 2000 and "in a dream" by Jossette on 103.9 KPTY which was supposed to be a mixshow only song. I used to request Jossette every single day after getting home from school, around 3:10 - 3:30pm or so. After a while, they ended up ONLY playing "in a dream" between 3 and 4pm for about a week and a half. It was funny because even though KPTY was rhythmic, the song and the version they played was very awkward for the station, especially when it was all hip hop and r&b, then next thing you know, Jossette pops in. By the way, "In a dream" starts off with a house beat, runs into a main breakbeat with acid electro sounds (similar to "set you free" by Planet Soul), then ends with a house beat. I don't know of any other stations that played Jossette instead of Rockell "in a dream" as a regular rotation artist.

 

[d21ofnj]

The signal did improve indeed, its clearer in Northern Monmouth and hardly any interference from WPVI when listening in Oakhurst.

 

[nd2023]

The fact that last summer, it was easy for me to call in and get a request played rather quickly, and this summer it's usually busy explains a lot.

radio stations do not play requests. that was coincidence....like when little girls ask for souja boy, and it plays within 15 minutes, the DJ pretends he hooked it up when in fact it was already scheduled. jocks get fired when they alter the logs as they are predetermined sometimes a week in advance.

Well, I usually requested songs that were power and heavy currents, and they played rather quickly. I'm sure the jocks could just rearrange the upcoming songs to get a request on soon. But I once requested Peter Lutz - What A Feeling last year and it was played after 10 minutes, and that song was a recurrent. Obviously they wouldn't play songs out of the format.

I walked into a pizza store in Queens one time and Pulse 87 was playing, I asked who set the radio station to 87.7, and stuck a $20 bill in the tip jar in plain view of all the workers and said that it's because of their choice of music (I had only ordered one slice of pizza, and that was the first store I had heard a dance station playing). Went back to that save pizza place a month later, and Pulse 87 was still on, and I gave another big tip. If you find a store that's playing a dance station, a little positive reinforcement for the employee who changed the station always helps. If someone walks into that store, hears an awesome dance song they love, and then an ID for Pulse 87, and another great song, chances are that Pulse 87's cume would have just increased by one person. I'm sure that my $20 indirectly led to much more than $20 in increased revenue for Pulse 87.