Townsquare couldn't have done much with it. You can't import an out of market signal on a commercially licensed translator...not to mention the pathetic coverage on 94.3. Even when it was in Hartsdale, it didn't get out all that well. Certainly not worth the aggravation. Listeners to this format should look to streaming, or perhaps get a HD radio and support whatever ends up on 92.3 HD2.
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Where will the ALT 92.3 Refugees Go? Options?
- Thread starter mikerock
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It is interesting to read that WFME-FM (Family Radio) can be picked up in Bergen County because I cannot pick up the station at my location in Lower Manhattan due to the tall buildings.
During the 1980s, I was able to pick up WLIR, one of WFME-FM's predecessors, with a boombox. It was either the east-facing window or something in the boombox that enabled me to pick up 92.7 at the time. Either way, the signal wasn't strong, but it was tolerable, enabling me to hear the wide range of alternative music that no one else was playing at the time.
And that sort of listening is done by a microscopic number of radio users in New York or any other market.
When it was WDRE/WLIR I remember problems with the signal in Manhattan as well. However it came booming in, along I95 and the coast in Fairfield, CT.
Hudson Valley, Upper fringes of Passaic County and Sussex County.
Yes West Milford is Passaic County which is in the NYC market. I grew up there. We would get both NYC and Hudson Valley stations.
When the audience cannot come to an agreement on what songs they want to hear, then the format simply dies off.
Modern rock ultimately has no future and it’s only a matter of time before commercial stations just give up on it entirely. The same honestly can be said about active and mainstream rock.
Modern rock ultimately has no future and it’s only a matter of time before commercial stations just give up on it entirely. The same honestly can be said about active and mainstream rock.
I haven't heard about this. K-Love already has WPLJ 95.5 and WKLV 96.7. What would they do with 94.3?
I wonder if portions of Long Island's north shore are able to pick up WMRQ from Connecticut?
www.radio-locator.com
WMRQ-FM Radio Station Coverage Map
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There's Tunein and the feed is called "Alt Hits". Yes this is nationwide on their app.
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Listen to Alt Hits on TuneIn
ALT Hits is your home for the latest alternative rock. You'll find everything from Twenty One Pilots to The Black Keys, Cage the Elephant, Imagine Dragons and more.
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If the modern rock formats are dying, then they are doing so very slowly.
According to News Generation, a public relations firm, there are:
- 165 active rock stations
- 163 alternative stations
- 73 mainstream rock stations
Perhaps the numbers are slightly lower now than when they were posted, but the point is that there is still a sizable number of radio stations that play modern rock music.
There are also 296 Gospel and 192 Adult Standards stations listed. Weak formats can exist for a long time, especially if they land on the 7th most valuable signal in a cluster.
iHeart and Urban One operate quite a few Gospel outlets, mostly on AM stations. If they go away, it will likely be because the station was shut down completely.
As far as I know, most of the stations with those formats are not on the coveted FM frequencies, so they were easy for me to overlook.
In NYC, gospel music is on WLIB, a stand-alone Class B AM station that no one wants to buy.
I'd imagine iHeart's FM gospel stations, in Southern markets like Jackson and Montgomery, do OK. Unlike southern (white) gospel music, which appeals more to older, rural listeners, black gospel has kept up with the times and most likely has a more attractive demographic profile to advertisers.
They’re doing nothing with it. The applicant is just using WPLJ as a placeholder for the construction permit. Good luck with that big 6 watt signal…
I agree, pretty weak, 65 watts in Manhattan but that 250 watts in Pomona, NY does not have the tall buildings issues.
W232AL-FM 94.3 MHz - Pomona, NY
Radio Station Information for W232AL 94.3 MHz FM, Pomona, NY
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Coverage area, Rockland, part of Westchester.
W232AL-FM Radio Station Coverage Map
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I know it probably would not happen but WRRV could pickup a decent chunk of listeners with that coverage area.
It was running 250 watts directional from Hartsdale. I doubt the lower power from the top of an apartment building will impact much of anything. Honestly, I doubt anyone will notice that it’s there.
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New York’s Triple-A Battle - RadioInsight
With this week’s announcement that WNYL (Alt 92.3) will give way to a simulcast of All-News WINS at the end of the month, the discussion inevitably turns to Alternative radio’s failure to take hold in New York over the last 25 years. In New York, the “New Rock Revolution” of the mid-‘90s was...
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