WYSP Signs Off Friday, Sept. 2 @ 3 PM

[DToTheJ]

This according to afternoon jock Jennifer Reed on her Twitter feed.

So 94.1 is just going to stunt all Labor Day Weekend?

 

[pab]

We have an excuse to roll tape, folks.

 

[wprt949]

so what becomes of 94.1 friday @ 3pm


and what will the last song be ?

 

[JH_Radio]

And what wil they do with the morning show for the next five days?

 

[imhomerjay]

Play music perhaps? It hardly matters.

 

[JH_Radio]

Just curious.Though wonder why the show ended yesterday instead of next friday ?

 

[imhomerjay]

A public service, putting Bonaduce out to pasture.

 

[Steve_Green]

While on a paint job with the portable on Friday, I was tuned for a while to WIP 610 and heard a few mentions of their plans for a 94.1 extension speaker 'on Monday', meaning the 29th. I wonder if and what the hurricane may have done to alter the schedule a bit.

Aside from WPHT, WIP is the loudest Philadelphia AMer up this way.

 

[wprt949]

is WYSP ending tomarrow ?

 

[Irishfl]

I really see no point in them stunting for a weekend. My guess if they have a soft launch of WIP on 94.1. Begin the simulcast at 3:00 on Friday, do all the technical stuff behind the scenes, but wait until Monday before officially calling it 94WIP, and playing whatever new imaging they will have.

 

[DToTheJ]

What are the odds that, in about a year from now, we'll be hearing promos that go like this:

"The Rock Is Back! 94WYSP"

... with "Welcome To The Jungle" in the background...

:

 

[imhomerjay]

Somewhat less than none.

 

[mook]

What are the odds that, in about a year from now, we'll be hearing promos that go like this:

"The Rock Is Back! 94WYSP"

... with "Welcome To The Jungle" in the background...

:

Within a year, probably very slim. Within 2 years, probably likely. This move with prove to CBS that the 2 share that WIP has gotten over the years is not due to it's AM signal, but because of the poor product. That morning show is brutally bad, and it gets worse throughout the day. There will be no more excuses now.

 

[Jul]

i hope everyone rolled tape of WYSP this week.

 

[Bill_W]

i hope everyone rolled tape of WYSP this week.

As my 2 year old son says, "nopie".

 

[imhomerjay]

i hope everyone rolled tape of WYSP this week.

Why?

 

[phils07]

So people can remember it. I'm rolling tape of Jennifer Reed's last show and all day tomorrow

 

[DToTheJ]

Be sure to post an aircheck, if you can!

 

[RockTheGlobe]

So people can remember it. I'm rolling tape of Jennifer Reed's last show and all day tomorrow

Yesterday was her last official day. The station is going away today at 3pm, which means it ends right before her show would start.

 

[observer2]

Some interesting ideas above:

AM is not the only reason WIP has been slipping a bit. OK, I think CBS, to some extent also recognized that. Point taken about some of the programs that stay though. It's perhaps not geared toward the younger male audience of which they'd like to have a bigger piece.

In a year (or two) the rock could be back. I don't see that ever happening. The limited, current WYSP audience will fragment into the three other rock stations, Sirius/XM, and internet radio. At best, a fraction of that would be recovered. Even FreeFM managed to keep enough of a rock connection to allow a U-turn. There's no way to do that with WIP-FM. I think WYSP has about as much chance of returning as WJJZ, 96.5 the Point, or US-1 Country. And I am/was a WYSP music listener.

Instead of dwelling on the past, let's look ahead at other stations on the same bubble as WYSP was a few months ago. Where does Wired go in a year, or Ben, or Mix?