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Re: WFNX

> What sort of "news" format would WFNX run? Kind of a local MTV News,
> with band gossip, club dates, album reviews? Or "alternative"
> journalism, with alternative-lifestyle shows, political muckraking, News
> of the Weird?

I imagine it would be serious news with more local content than WBUR and
less blood and scandal than WBZ.  But I haven't done any research, and the
actual format might turn out to be quite different.
 
> Seeing as how what teens and early-20s listeners want from radio --
> music, music, and, oh yeah, music -- hasn't changed that much in the 20
> years since I was in that demographic, it seems unlikely that a
> Phoenix-based news format would fly.

That's not the demo I'd aim for, for exactly that reason.

Rob Landry
umar@wcrb.com

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