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Post by Slinky on Nov 1, 2005 18:56:30 GMT -5
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Post by Pink Champagne Ricochet on Nov 2, 2005 21:30:56 GMT -5
99.9 Kiss Country manages to survive in Miami, which is a market I wouldn't exactly automatically think was very friendly to country (over 50% Hispanic, many African Americans as well). But it's still around and has been for as far as I can remember, so I would think that most cities could find a niche for one. It might not be a blockbuster station, but it could find a niche. I have it on my top 10 presets and stop there whenever the others (pop, rhythmic, urban, AC, etc.) are playing commercials or a song I don't like.
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Post by MJM on Nov 4, 2005 18:31:03 GMT -5
I have an idea. Let's push for a Country station in London, too. Because it would honestly do better there than NYC. ROTFL. If you're not from NYC, you just don't get it. While I'm sure there are some people who like country, a Country station wouldn't do well.
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Post by How Do You Do? on Nov 7, 2005 12:43:33 GMT -5
I don't find it bizarre that there isn't a Country station in NYC, but why isn't there an Alternative station? Even here in Minneapolis we have an Alternative and an Adult Alternative station (as well as at least one Country station).
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Post by EvanJ on Nov 7, 2005 17:17:59 GMT -5
The Minneapolis-St. Paul ratings have an Active Rock station but no Alternative stations.
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Post by Slinky on Nov 7, 2005 19:11:52 GMT -5
The Minneapolis-St. Paul ratings have an Active Rock station but no Alternative stations. WGVX is on the R&R Alternative panel. They started out as a Triple A, but they're Alternative now.
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Post by How Do You Do? on Nov 8, 2005 14:12:48 GMT -5
WGVX/WGVZ (same station) has been Alternative for ages and KTCZ (97.1) is the AAA station.
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Post by reidster on Nov 9, 2005 17:11:42 GMT -5
Toronto has a country station, and it does well.. and many people consider Toronto a mini NY.. I think it would do well.
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Post by Houster on Nov 14, 2005 23:36:13 GMT -5
In a non-scientific poll done by the free newspaper "AM New York" (distributed mainly on subways and commuter railroads), 31 percent of New Yorkers who responded said they liked country music, 69 percent didn't.
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Post by reception on Nov 15, 2005 12:25:28 GMT -5
Would putting country music on the AM dial be a possibility in New York? The ratings would probably be nonexistent but just a thought.
Honolulu is the only major city I can think of where their only country music station (KHCM) is on AM.
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Post by EvanJ on Nov 15, 2005 15:10:07 GMT -5
I don't expect any of them to change to Country, but the New York City area does have Christian Talk WMCA, Gospel WTHE, News WBBR, and Sports (ESPN Radio) WEPN which are all AM stations that have very low ratings or don't even appear in the ratings.
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Post by Marv on Nov 17, 2005 23:30:34 GMT -5
My point has been that given the number of super-successful Country powerhouses in many urban areas within 200 miles of NYC, a Country station licensed to either Long Island, White Plains or placed somewhere in northern NJ but with a signal covering NYC and 75-125 miles in all directions would do very well.
Even if such a station only got a rating in the 2.0-2.5 range (a la SportsTalk WFAN or Scott Shannon's WPLJ), that staion woul do MUCH better on Long Island, in the northern suburbs of NYC, and northern NJ.
By comparison, KZLA Los Angeles has been stuck in the 1.8-2.4 range ratings wise for 3-5 years despite a $3,000,000 media blitz which Emmis Broadcasting launched a few years ago to draw attention to the station. KZLA does VERY well in nearby Orange County, where it's been a topfive staple for years; like most Country stations (as well as Talk and Smooth Jazz stations from coast to coast), KZLA's listeners have TONS of disposable income, and for that reason I'm inclined to think that Country station serving NYC & the areas previously mentioned would also do VERY well revenue-wise.
Wouldn't that be enough of a reason to relaunch a Country station in NYC, providing that it met the above qualifications?
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Post by Houster on Nov 18, 2005 0:25:30 GMT -5
The people who run commercial radio seem not to want to cater to or serve the people with lots of disposable income -- they seem to want to program to niches -- young males, young females, females in their 30's, etc., etc. Seems to me that they would rather sell products to poorer people who are more willing to part with their money faster than to richer people who need more convincing.
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Post by Marv on Nov 20, 2005 23:28:15 GMT -5
I'm not sure if that's the truth, since the three formats whose listeners have the highest amounts of disposable income (Country, News & Sports Talk, & Smooth Jazz) can NOT be ignore by the size of their wallets.
That's my reasoning as to why I think that a country station in NYC (with the aforementioned items previously listed) might not do that well in NYC, but would unquestionably do very well (a 2.5+ rating would be MORE than sufficient!!!) in the suburbs of northerm New Jersey, Westchester County, and Long Island.
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