Re: WNEW changes again...

[Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@gordsven.com>]

> York City 50 kw AMs. (Does Infinity still own 1480 in New York? The
> programming is now in Korean, but the station could be LMAed to the Korean

History of AM 1480:

Under Infinity Broadcasting ownership:

Spanish full service Radio Jit (as WJIT) until 1991.

Heavy metal music as Z-Rock (WZRC) until 1993 or so 1994

Country music for a month (still WZRC)

Korean full service as Radio Korea (still WZRC) started in 1993 or 94.

WZRC was sold shortly thereafter to Arthur Liu's Multicultural 
Broadcasting.  I think it was pre-Telecom 96.

Station continued with the LMAed Korean full service format under Liu's
ownership until some time in 2001 or 2002.  By then, the Korean
programmers had bought WGSM-AM 74 in Huntington, LI and leased an FM
Subcarrier service in New York City (100.3 FM at 92 khz).

Korean programming was shifted to weekday daytimes only on Liu's AM 1430
WNSW (Newark NJ).

WZRC AM 1480 is now part of Arthur Liu's in-house programmed Sinocast 
Network.   The station is a full-service station in Chinese (don't know 
what dialect -- either Mandarin or Taiwanese or both).  

Sinocast also has a subcarrier station on 92.3 FM (in the 67 khz band).  

Programming on both AM 1480 and 92.3 FM-SCA is separate, but is a similar 
format (maybe different dialects also -- probably Cantonese, etc.).

Liu seems to have had success with AM 1480.  Since you don't need any 
expensive, specially modified radios to get it, more people have access to 
it.  If you walk through Chinatown and stop in some stores, you may see a 
radio set to AM 1480.

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Sven