-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
Y-107 NY/NJ
- Thread starter kws31a
- Start date
And really nothing has ever replaced that station or out on LOng Island with Country 043 going down shortly before Y107, Doesnt anybody like country music???
starcastle said:
Y107 was the "most listenened to" country station in the US. Of course we have such a huge population that this is easy to achieve. Nonetheless, country is extremely popular in the NYC and metro surrounding areas. A well programmed, full area signal would fare very well. Unfortunately, large broadcasters seem to stereotype country listeners as folks who have "less buying power", or feel that thier advertisers won't pay "top dollar" for ad spots. In reality, nationwide, even in large markets, country sells big. Someone with "guts", a passion for the format and the knowledge and staff to lauch a "full-throttle", BIG sounding, modern country station could definetly pull it off! The right people with drive, can sell anything...including country.
I'm sorry, I'm not saying this to be condecending but I have lived in New York City for 25 years and find your statement oddly inaccurate unless you're talking about another NYC.
[/quote]
I understand your perspective on the issue, all I'm really saying is that today's country is as "mainstream" and popular as any other nationwide popular format. When I say "NYC" I mean the "listening area" which doesn't just include "the city". I believe that too many stations target "the city" when their signal is alot further reaching than that. I too have lived in Northern NJ (25 mins outside NYC) for 40 years. Many people that I know in NJ AND NYC favor this format. I do however realize that this is not good measurement of format interest, but no one can say that there isn't interest or it isn't popular. As our area is the largest "mixing bowl" in the US, thus is the musical tastes of it's residents regardless of whether they live in the "city" or the "country" (NJ) ;D
That being said, I still believe that NYC radio is too redundant and there certainly is room for a New Country/Mainstream format. Getting someone willing to pull it off is another story. :
[/quote]
I understand your perspective on the issue, all I'm really saying is that today's country is as "mainstream" and popular as any other nationwide popular format. When I say "NYC" I mean the "listening area" which doesn't just include "the city". I believe that too many stations target "the city" when their signal is alot further reaching than that. I too have lived in Northern NJ (25 mins outside NYC) for 40 years. Many people that I know in NJ AND NYC favor this format. I do however realize that this is not good measurement of format interest, but no one can say that there isn't interest or it isn't popular. As our area is the largest "mixing bowl" in the US, thus is the musical tastes of it's residents regardless of whether they live in the "city" or the "country" (NJ) ;D
That being said, I still believe that NYC radio is too redundant and there certainly is room for a New Country/Mainstream format. Getting someone willing to pull it off is another story. :
W
warm590
Guest
KS31 hit it on the head...there are so many redundant formats in NYC, a country station would make it here. I was to a Kenny Chesney concert a couple of years ago, and the crowd ran the gamut, age wise- young folks, middle agers, seniors.....And you are starting to hear some of the country stuff hit the "lite" stations; rascal flatts is very popular with the younger folks as well.....
You can preach all you want about the demos, but show up at a country concert and they are all there.....
We just need somebody with the stones to step up to the plate and do it.....since everything now is owned by big companies, not sure thats gonna happen...talk about missing the boat..not everyone goes for the urban crap, and dont forget the listeners on the fringes...upstate ny, Nj......
discussion???
warm590 ;D
You can preach all you want about the demos, but show up at a country concert and they are all there.....
We just need somebody with the stones to step up to the plate and do it.....since everything now is owned by big companies, not sure thats gonna happen...talk about missing the boat..not everyone goes for the urban crap, and dont forget the listeners on the fringes...upstate ny, Nj......
discussion???
warm590 ;D
- Status