I was rather surprised to see this news on the Radioinsight page. The ratings have been a complete disaster for the entirety of 2022, but I thought Audacy loved their national Alt chain of stations. A few questions about this flip:
1) What becomes of WCBS 880? With one of the two newsers going to FM, do the suburban listeners stick with the AM or do they migrate to WINS?
2) With Audacy blowing up a station in market #1, how many of the other underperforming Alts are living on borrowed time? Audacy has a quite a few of them (WSFS/Miami, WQMP/Orlando, and WDZH/Detroit being among the most vulnerable)
Alt 92.3 NYC flipping to 1010 WINS simulcast
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Re: Alt 92.3 NYC flipping to 1010 WINS simulcast
At some point, the "WCBS Newsradio 880" brand will go away entirely.
There are certainly parallels here to how CBS Radio / Infinity eliminated KFWB in Los Angeles and WMAQ in Chicago, leaving one all-news radio station in their hands in each market.
There are certainly parallels here to how CBS Radio / Infinity eliminated KFWB in Los Angeles and WMAQ in Chicago, leaving one all-news radio station in their hands in each market.
Morgan Wallen is a piece of garbage.
Re: Alt 92.3 NYC flipping to 1010 WINS simulcast
WCBS-FM 101.1 and WBBM-FM 96.3 will keep their call letters for the foreseeable future. It was easier to just change 92.3 to WINS-FM. WCFS 105.9 is awkward, but mainly due to having to say "Elmwood Park" once an hour.
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