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Would "My" 94.1 hurt KISS?

WMMX/Mix 107.7 from Dayton bleeds into the Cincinnati market pretty well I think...I even remember them plugging this fact in their imaging back in 2004 when they put up a new tower...In fact I picked them up right up to the Ohio state border last year when I was driving through Cincy into Northern Kentucky. 'MMX is a great Hot AC...They "get" the format. I won't comment on how 94.1 sounds because I haven't heard it in years. CC could look into selling the underperforming 94.1...or perhaps shifting it back to a straight AC like it was in the "WWNK" days to compete with WARM 98.
CC Dayton has to sell two stations, but who knows when-or what. I'd look for 106.5 and 94.5 to bite the dust. 103.9 could be another guess(I remember reading that NABCO was looking into buying 103.9 from CC to increase the 103.9 in Columbus' signal-Heaven knows that station could use a boost in signal(103.9 in Columbus, that is). :D
 
If you look at the dial position 94.1 you might say it is the Bermuda Triangle
of Cincinnati radio. Has that dial position ever delivered meaningful ratings for an extended period of time?
 
onegreatplace said:
If you look at the dial position 94.1 you might say it is the Bermuda Triangle
of Cincinnati radio. Has that dial position ever delivered meaningful ratings for an extended period of time?
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It never has. 94.1 has been doomed no matter what format it's had over the years.. Same with 96.5 it's cursed as well as its never had any format above a 3 or 4 share.
 
Looks like another history lesson is needed.

When 94.1 was WINK, it was the #1 AC station between 1988 and 1993. After W-Lite flipped to The FOX (on 94.9), WINK took up the "Light Rock" mantra and kicked ass until Q102 went Hot AC and 92.5 became Majic. When Great American bought it, the genius Jim Bryant screwed with it so it wouldn't hurt Q102 as badly as it had. WINK regualrly got between a 5 and 7 12+.

Do some homework boys.
 
inventor, elephant, i can't remember this success from 94.1. can you actually quote an arbtron figure to substantiate your position on this or are you simply pulling this info from your beaker and trunk?
 
Inventor989 said:
It also beat WEBN on a regular basis as WSAI-FM during the late 70s when it did a tight AOR format with Jeff Nimmo et al.
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The Rock format didn't last to long though right? Didn't the station had more success with country as Kicks country 941? I still remember those Deborah Shelton commercials :) ;D
 
I don't ever remember it getting close to a 5 share when it was WWNK. Ever. It may have been the #1 AC (other than the full-service giants), which means it was STILL an underperformer. Come on, people, in how many markets did an AC (that wasn't full-service or hot AC) place at #1 or #2?

From what I've heard, I am pretty sure that WSAI-FM in its AOR days once beat WEBN. But I would have been too young then to be paying attention, which shows you how long ago that was.
 
microbob said:
Didn't the station had more success with country as Kicks country 941? I still remember those Deborah Shelton commercials :) ;D
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I think it may have tied WUBE once, but mostly people just laughed at Kicks Country because its commercials were so ridiculous.
 
Bandit, I don't expect you to remember ANYTHING clearly. WINK was doing 6 shares in the early 90s. I remember because they were our competitor at the time.

I love all the kids coming on here acting like they know what happened when they were in diapers. Amusing.
 
In the old M Street directories, I found one single instance where WWNK was over a 5 in the early '90s, and that was because the market didn't have hardly anything else that wasn't AC. (Q-102 was drifting off into AC oblivion.) Also, wasn't this when the '70s oldies format was slowly eating WWNK? So that doesn't really count, since that was one of few things WWNK did right.
 
I believe elephant is wrapping her trunk around something that she is unwilling to go back and put some true numbers to.
 
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