Yet another Pulse is dying thread

[nd2023]

This week, GRock 106.3/106.5 in NJ suddenly flipped formats to CHR. This morning, over 150 listeners protested the format change. If Pulse 87 suddenly flips formats, would people be passionate enough to come to New York City to protest the format change?

 

[andreajesus]

maybe... ???

 

[Dancerev889]

This week, GRock 106.3/106.5 in NJ suddenly flipped formats to CHR. This morning, over 150 listeners protested the format change. If Pulse 87 suddenly flips formats, would people be passionate enough to come to New York City to protest the format change?

I dont think the management of G rock really cared that there were 150 people. If there were 150,000 thats different

 

[MarcB]

How many radio stations have members of management on hand at the station on weekend? I betcha perhaps only small mom & pop stations do.

 

[ansky212]

Grock's coverage area is only like 20 sq miles. But 150 people is still nothing really.

 

[TonySantiago]

This week, GRock 106.3/106.5 in NJ suddenly flipped formats to CHR. This morning, over 150 listeners protested the format change. If Pulse 87 suddenly flips formats, would people be passionate enough to come to New York City to protest the format change?

For me, I would NOT do a protest outside of Pulse's studios if a format change were to happen. I would consider whatever happening as "done" and focus on moving on to getting another broadcaster to do the format on another dial position. Besides, we'd probably get the same amount, or less, people to show so it doesn't make sense to go that route.

I would certainly not stop anyone for expressing their feelings. If people wanted to write a station to express their thoughts, I would encourage that.

 

[DToTheJ]

This week, GRock 106.3/106.5 in NJ suddenly flipped formats to CHR. This morning, over 150 listeners protested the format change. If Pulse 87 suddenly flips formats, would people be passionate enough to come to New York City to protest the format change?

For me, I would NOT do a protest outside of Pulse's studios if a format change were to happen. I would consider whatever happening as "done" and focus on moving on to getting another broadcaster to do the format on another dial position. Besides, we'd probably get the same amount, or less, people to show so it doesn't make sense to go that route.

My money's on less.

 

[nd2023]

Grock's coverage area is only like 20 sq miles. But 150 people is still nothing really.

I think GRock covers 75% of NJ with a listenable signal, and all of New York City.

Dance music fans are just as passionate about Pulse 87 as alternative rock fans were passionate about GRock.

I could see this situation happening. Mega Media goes bankrupt and WNYZ gets leased to someone else (remember, MMDA is only leasing WNYZ, it does not own it). Or another company buys out MMDA and its assets, including WNYZ. The new company flips WNYZ's format. If that happens, a protest would be warranted as it is completely within the new company's control as to what the format of 87.7 is, as it would get media coverage and show how many people are passionate about dance music on the airwaves. Pulse 87 has a cume of 500K, which is not a small amount. Most of the cume is within New York City, unlike GRock's cume which is spread out. If just one percent of the cume shows up to a protest, that is bound to make a statement. Look what happened to CBS-FM.

 

[d21ofnj]

This week, GRock 106.3/106.5 in NJ suddenly flipped formats to CHR. This morning, over 150 listeners protested the format change. If Pulse 87 suddenly flips formats, would people be passionate enough to come to New York City to protest the format change?

For me, I would NOT do a protest outside of Pulse's studios if a format change were to happen. I would consider whatever happening as "done" and focus on moving on to getting another broadcaster to do the format on another dial position. Besides, we'd probably get the same amount, or less, people to show so it doesn't make sense to go that route.

I would certainly not stop anyone for expressing their feelings. If people wanted to write a station to express their thoughts, I would encourage that.

I'm actually gonna be honest here, I'd probaly be one of those protesters NOT showing up and it's not because I now live in Binghamton, it's more of who is going and how they are performing. Yes, it's the same sound of how KTU was, and all we need now is for Pulse to add "I will survive" and "Vogue" instead of "I Never Knew" and "Miles Away" and be another station competing with KTU. If you want a good sample of a current based dance station that had it's limits to freestyle and 90;s, listen to Party 105, especially when Andre was PD. I took my notes and played my cards right when I had 967party.com going on with Live365, and pending to be coming back if I get a good bailout from the IRS . Yes, I LOVE Pulse 87, but Tony's right. Party 105 played freestyle at least once or twice within an hour and was more on currents than anything. I understand NYC is a big freestyle fan based area and it's good to get more listeners that way, but if you are going to saturate more classics than currents, at least do a segment of just freestyle only. Perfect example, the Freestyle Free-For-All on KTU. Three hours of freestyle on a sunday night. That should be good enough and play freestyle once or twice an hour. I even noticed Pulse sounding more lie KTU with the 87 at 7. If that's the case of just straight up current dance not working, then how come Chicago's Dance Factory and B-96 HD 2 is set on currents like BPM. It seems to be working there, even though Dance Factory is not 24 hours. How come Party 105 was less with freestyle regardless of adding hip-hop to the rotation.

Grock's coverage area is only like 20 sq miles. But 150 people is still nothing really.

I think GRock covers 75% of NJ with a listenable signal, and all of New York City.

Dance music fans are just as passionate about Pulse 87 as alternative rock fans were passionate about GRock.

I could see this situation happening. Mega Media goes bankrupt and WNYZ gets leased to someone else (remember, MMDA is only leasing WNYZ, it does not own it). Or another company buys out MMDA and its assets, including WNYZ. The new company flips WNYZ's format. If that happens, a protest would be warranted as it is completely within the new company's control as to what the format of 87.7 is, as it would get media coverage and show how many people are passionate about dance music on the airwaves. Pulse 87 has a cume of 500K, which is not a small amount. Most of the cume is within New York City, unlike GRock's cume which is spread out. If just one percent of the cume shows up to a protest, that is bound to make a statement. Look what happened to CBS-FM.

Don't forget, CBS-FM had more complaints than Pulse currently has listeners, it took them a couple of years, but it finally sank through with a more than one percent to get the word through CBS about Jack-FM. If a protest for Pulse would go on, if that were to happen, do you think a small company like Mega Media would even care? Big corporations would just look at the small amount of listeners Pulse has and would just figure it's not enough cume. Even though Pulse only covers most of the 5 boroughs, some of Nassau, and northeastern New Jersey, the suits will make a bonehead statement like, take for example, "WRXP has more listeners than Pulse, but Pulse is the lowest rated, and we are not gonna be a niche format" regards of dance being big in NYC. Nobody in suits care for the passion of the music, they just care about how many benjamins they can get out of the listeners with saturating what "they" want. Some stations, however, like G-Rock and The Buzz had a great cume of listeners and had everything good for them, until they decide to get greedy and place a format that they can get more money out of more people if they perform a format that everybody will listen to. This is why G-Rock became Hit 106. Someone, other than me, knew the Monmouth-Ocean radio market had no flavor, and the younger demo wouldnt care for Jersey Shore radio since they had their beloved NYC radio stations. Z-100 showed high ratings in the Monmouth-Ocean radio market, while other stations like NJ 101.5 and 94.3 The Point favored the older crowd. While living there, I had my personal online station on Live365, a very small, but got attention to some people, thinking my station was actually on the FM dial. The reason why I did it, not only because I loved what I love, but to get the message that are we gonna be dealing with just the same older crowd radio, or are we gonna push for something fresh and live to represent the area. The Jersey Shore also attracts so many visitors, mostly from North Jersey and NY, and you would think the Monmouth-Ocean radio market would try to cume listeners away from NYC radio with a little more variety. Well, someone finally did that choice, but with the wrong station. I may not be a fan of rock, but I sure as hell enjoyed G-rock more than WRAT. In fact, RXP should be smart and takes notes from G-rock and maybe their numbers would improve. Like I said in other posts, Hit should've been on a different frequency, or WQXR should surrender their license for W244AS and make 96.7 available. The most if they were going to flip a station, IMHO, they should've flipped WRAT. Thir stick is in the smack middle of Lake Como and can reach a decent amount of Monmouth and Ocean county. The protest with G-Rock should accume more than 150 people since they served a good amount of the Jersey Shore, hell, more than the Jersey Shore, listeners from as North as Woodbridge, maybe even Rahway, to as south of between Ocean City and Atlantic City. I apologize for going on a rant, and talking 3 subjects all in once, but the matter of it all is even with protesting for G-rock and if the possibility of Pulse going the direction like G-rock did, it's not going to matter what how passionate we are to the music unless we satisfy the suits giving them the green, and since they are not satisfied with ther wallets, they are not gonna care what to satisfy their listeners. The only option for radio is internet radio. Only problem, is internet broadcasters don't get enough credit for the passion we show to satisfy the listeners nor the general public is not "getting into" internet radio, even if you say where you're broadcasting from to make the station feel "at home."

 

[TonySantiago]

My money's on less.

A rare moment here....I actually MAY AGREE with you.

I WILL do something different, and it doesn't involve people protesting in front of a station should this happen.

 

[andreajesus]

Don't forget, CBS-FM had more complaints than Pulse currently has listeners, it took them a couple of years, but it finally sank through with a more than one percent to get the word through CBS about Jack-FM.

and that's why you guys gotta start now...yes, it took CBSFM a couple of years to come back, but IT CAME BACK!! Persistence, my friend, persistence... 8) We got the word out --the rest is history... 8)

Andrea