RE: WNEW changes again...

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

While I realize it's going back a ways and it was AM, but how successful was
WHN 1050 with Country (and if it coinsided with their Mets broadcasts, maybe
that skewed the results).

Maybe get Country on an AM signal (Whichever of 660,880 and 1010 is LEAST
sucessful) and move the format replaced to 102.7) They're all Infin, right?

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Matthew
> Osborne
> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:52 PM
> To: Kevin Vahey; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WNEW changes again...
>
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:13:02 Kevin Vahey
> <kvahey@tmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Blink was god awful
> >
> > Why Infinity doesn't flip to country atounds me,
> > they would become a top
> > 10 signal in one book. Never #1 but a nice solid and
> > loyal audience.
>
>     Although I only actually got to listen to Blink a
> couple times (I live outisde of their listening area),
> I was never impressed with what I did hear, and the
> whole format they were trying seemed to be a total
> sham.
>     I've said this before and I'll say it again -- I'm
> not sure how good a move country would be for 102.7
> In light of their Blink ratings, it would likely be an
> improvement, but I don't think a country station in
> NYC will ever pull decent ratings, and nowhere near
> top 10 ratings.  The demographics in the NY
> metropolitan area, to the best of my knowledge, just
> aren't right for country to really succeed.  And also
> remember that the most recent 2 attempts at country
> radio in NYC were failures (WYNY on 103.5, and then
> the Y-107 multicast).  Now each of those stories have
> their own unique circumstances as to why they failed,
> but even when 103.5 was still playing country, I don't
> think they ever had a book where they rated in the top
> 10; I seem to recall that they always used to be near
> the bottom.
>
>                             Matt Osborne
>                             Poughkeepsie, NY
>
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