• Text of NY Times article re WYNY

    From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 9 17:22:10 2019
    I miss wyny 103.5 fm.it was a great country station .and it was a country station from.July 1st 1987 to February 5th 1996 and it was at first 97.1.on fm and then.103.5 on fm.I liked the personalities on.it including randy davis.Lisa taylor.Jim kerr.and
    shelli.sonstein.I miss wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5 fm.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 12 10:23:53 2019
    Wyny 97.1.fm and 103.5 fm was.a great country station and i.m sorry that it isn.t.still.on the air.I miss it.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 12 10:21:56 2019
    No more wyny 97.1.fm and 103.5 fm and no more country music on wyny 97.1.fm and 103.5 fm.I miss it.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 13 03:36:29 2019
    I miss wyny 97.1.fm and 103.5.fm

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 13 13:03:54 2019
    I love country music

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 13 13:19:23 2019
    I remember reading an article from February 2nd.1996 groundhog.day that said enjoy a sunday in the country.it.ll be wyny.'s last.well the last.Sunday of wyny.97.1 fm and 103.5.fm was February 4th 1996 but the last day of wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5 fm was
    February 5th 1996.I miss wyny 97.1.fm and 103.5.fm.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 14 11:14:35 2019
    I miss wyny.97.1 fm and 103.5 fm.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 15 06:00:28 2019
    Oh I know the names of some of the people from evergreen.broadcasting on wyny.103.5 fm.and they are jim decastro.and Matt devine.wyny 103.5.fm was a country station when decastro and devine ran it.and they ran it from.December 1995 to February 5th 1996.I
    miss it.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 15 06:02:42 2019
    Wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5.fm was my number one favorite country station and my favorite.country station I miss it.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 15 09:26:31 2019
    Enjoy a sunday in the country. It.ll be wyny.'s last.the Sunday to enjoy.in the country.was February 4th 1996.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to marchof...@gmail.com on Sat Jun 15 17:23:09 2019
    On Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 8:22:32 PM UTC-4, marchof...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 1:35:16 PM UTC-4, marchof...@gmail.com wrote:
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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to marchof...@gmail.com on Sat Jun 15 17:22:31 2019
    On Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 1:35:16 PM UTC-4, marchof...@gmail.com wrote:
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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to marchof...@gmail.com on Sun Jun 16 16:11:35 2019
    On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 4:40:45 PM UTC-4, marchof...@gmail.com wrote:
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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to marchof...@gmail.com on Wed Jun 19 16:19:05 2019
    On Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 1:52:23 PM UTC-4, marchof...@gmail.com wrote:
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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 23 13:45:48 2019
    Lisa Taylor was one of my favorite personalities.on wyny 97.1.fm and 103.5.fm.yesterday which was June 22nd 2019 she had a birthday and yesterday which was June 22nd 2019 she turned 51 years old.she was born on June 22nd.in 1968 in....I.ve.never seen her
    in person and i.ve never met her.I miss her.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 23 13:46:51 2019
    Wyny.97.1fm and 103.5.fm.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 23 13:48:31 2019
    I miss wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5.fm

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 23 14:15:35 2019
    I liked lisa Taylor as a personality on wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5.fm.I miss her.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 29 08:16:58 2019
    Wyny 97 1 fm.103.5.fm

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 30 08:18:56 2019
    Wyny.97.1 fm 103.5 fm

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 1 04:16:11 2019
    Wyny 97.1 fm 103.5 fm

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to marchof...@gmail.com on Mon Jul 1 16:32:51 2019
    On Monday, July 1, 2019 at 3:16:36 PM UTC-4, marchof...@gmail.com wrote:
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    Blank

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 4 07:34:53 2019
    Happy fourth of July independence day

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 4 07:36:19 2019
    Wyny 97.1 fm 103.5 fm

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 17 04:40:59 2019
    Wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5 fm.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 17 05:04:46 2019
    I miss wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5 fm.

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  • From snoopykirbycom@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Kent Steinnagel on Wed Jul 17 19:58:25 2019
    On Monday, February 5, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Kent Steinnagel wrote:
    For those who missed it, here is the text of Saturday's article on how
    bad NY radio is. Note the mention of WYNY changing format. BTW, did
    anyone listen in this morning to the new format? Gross!! The morning
    slot is shock-jock, ala "How-wierd" Stern. New York radio needs this
    like we need another pot-hole!! I hope Evergreen looses their pants and
    what they cover. I tried calling in to complain on the 800 number they
    gave out, but they were always busy. Must have been lots of people complaining, because the main DJ took a cheap shot at country music and
    the old format by referring to it as "looser music". Shockingly unprofessional considering the grace with which the old staff departed.



    The Sorry State of New York Radio

    By NEIL STRAUSS


    There is nothing interesting about the inside of a radio station.
    The elements are the same: impersonal corridors lined with offices
    and a studio with a control board, music-playback machines, banks
    of compact disks, microphones, headphones, a disk jockey and
    usually an engineer.

    But at K-Rock last week, there wasn't even a disk jockey, and the
    microphones and headphones weren't in use. It was a ghost station.
    The music played, but nobody announced the songs or did any
    talking. An engineer simply programmed the music of the day using
    a list of songs chosen by a music director in Los Angeles and
    sequenced by a computer program known as Selector.

    As recently as December, K-Rock (WXRK, 92.3 FM) was the only
    station left in New York City playing classic rock: the Beatles,
    the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd. Today, it is one of five New York
    stations playing a variation of the format known as modern
    rock(bands like Smashing Pumpkins and Bush). Except for Howard
    Stern, who is heard in the morning, the station gave its entire
    on-air staff a few weeks off while it decided what kind of disk
    jockeys should present its new sound.

    A result is that in this transition period, and perhaps beyond it,
    K-Rock has become a metaphor for music radio in New York: lifeless, mechanical and remote.

    Music stations all over the country, like other forms of
    entertainment, are becoming more generic. This is because of a
    variety of factors: the rise of outside radio consultants,
    increasing dependence on market research and narrow-niche formats,
    the tight correlation between ratings and the cost of advertising,
    relaxed Federal regulations governing ownership that put more
    stations in the hands of a few national corporations, and a herd
    mentality in which a successful new idea gets copied into
    redundancy.

    But in the New York area, home to the largest radio audience in the
    country (14 million, according to Arbitron Research), the situation
    is even worse. Critics have long bemoaned classical-music radio's
    adherence to excerpting familiar works as background music. But pop
    radio has become just as innocuous. New York stations are among
    the most conservative in the country, with the variety of formats
    they offer shrinking month by month. Chicago, Boston, Nashville,
    even Albuquerque, N.M.: all these cities and others offer the
    casual listener a more provocative and varied spin of the dial.

    Problems faced by stations around the country are worsened in New
    York City. It costs nearly twice as much to own a radio station
    here as elsewhere, leading to an environment that discourages
    taking risks. The density of the urban landscape makes it difficult
    for FM signals to travel in the city. There is no car culture
    within the city and hence no captive radio audience. New York is
    also home to one of the broadest arrays of ethnic groups and
    musical tastes in the country, each wanting its own radio format
    on a band too small to accommodate them all.

    Once, things were better.New York had its golden ages of music
    radio from the mid-1950's to the early 7's. In the 50's, WINS (with
    Alan Freed) and WMCA (with the Good Guys) brought rock-and-roll to
    the city. In the 60's, Dan Ingram and Cousin Brucie gave life to
    top-40 music on WABC while WBAI and WFMU pioneered free-form radio.

    In the early 70's, WNEW was still enjoying its heyday as a
    progressive station, but music radio had already begun its slow
    decline, one that has accelerated in the last few months.

    In New York, no station takes chances," said Tom Zarecki, who has
    worked in New York radio for 27 years as a D.J., engineer and
    consultant and is now in charge of marketing at Radio Computing
    Services, which developed the Selector computer program.

    "New York is considered a conservative market in the industry.
    Because moving up or down half a point in the ratings can mean a
    million dollar gain or loss in advertising revenue, stations are
    not going to experiment or try anything new. They have the stations
    they own in other cities do the testing first."

    Commercial radio stations in New York now move in packs, jumping on
    whatever styles of music that analysts and advertisers perceive to
    be hot or underrepresented in the market. This is best illustrated
    by the recent turn of events that led to the new K-Rock, which
    Robert Unmacht, a national radio expert and editor of the weekly
    newsletter M Street Journal, describes as "a comedy of errors."

    Long Island's WDRE (92.7 FM) was the only commercial station in the
    New York area playing modern rock music in early 1994 when suddenly
    Z-100 (WHTZ, 100.3 FM) abandoned its top-40 format for a similar
    repertory. Immediately afterward, WNCN (104.3 FM) changed from
    being a classical station to a hard-edged modern rock station,
    altering its call letters to WAXQ (or Q-104) and laying off its
    entire air staff (except for Candace D'Agree, whose on-air name was
    changed to the more rocking Candy Martin). Last summer, WNEW
    followed with a more adult-leaning mix of modern rock. Last month,
    K-Rock joined the fray.

    "New York suddenly found itself with a glut of rock stations," Mr.
    Unmacht said. "It has got five nonadventuresome rock stations. It's
    the equivalent of a backyard barbecue where everybody brings potato
    salad. It was really a mistake. Nobody was looking where they were
    going, and they all bumped into each other."

    Vin Scelsa, a former disk jockey on K-Rock who recently returned to
    his old home on WNEW, says radio has become a business where the
    stakes are too high for the music to be good. "Modern commercial
    radio is about real estate," he said. "It's not about art or music
    or really communication. Most people own radio stations so they can
    build up their equity in them and then sell them."

    Occasionally, an entrepreneur comes along who wants to give New
    York radio something new and exciting. Several years ago, for
    example, Ken Freedman, the station manager at the
    listener-supported WFMU-FM (91.1 FM) in East Orange, N.J., tried to
    establish a similar station in the city.

    "I wanted to set up a new, eclectic music station that was
    noncommercial in New York," he said. "I wasted a year and a half
    of my life trying to do that. It was more or less a disaster."

    "There's a very good reason why there are so few stations like WFMU
    out there," he added. "It's so difficult to do stuff with little
    money. Anybody who wants to try something new in New York
    commercial radio needs at least $40 million before they can even
    think about it. And that's just going to buy you the license. Then
    you need money to operate it."

    With out-of-town corporate owners, business decisions are made that
    aren't necessarily best for the local radio spectrum. Consider what
    is happening at WYNY (103.5 FM), the only country station in New
    York, which is on the verge of changing its format for reasons that
    seem to have more to do with corporate public relations than with
    music. Though WYNY has more listeners than any other country
    station in the country, according to Arbitron, its ratings appear
    low because there are so many other stations competing in New York.

    "WYNY is owned by a company called Evergreen that is very active on
    Wall Street," Mr. Unmacht said. "And every article that says WYNY
    isn't working hurts the whole chain." (Officials of Evergreen
    Media did not return phone calls for comment.)

    Mr. Unmacht added "it's unthinkable that in New York there's no
    classic rock, no country, no mainstream rock and no contemporary
    hits radio."

    New York, however, has several stations catering to a black
    audience, which has led to intense competition among them. As
    Lisa G., a morning-show host at the rap and rhythm-and-blues
    station Hot-97 (WQHT 97.1 FM), says, "It's radio wars out there."
    For years, Hot-97, Kiss-FM (WRKS 98.7 FM) and WBLS (107.5 FM) have
    been competing in a see-saw ratings game, with one station at the
    top of the Arbitron ratings one season and down eight places the
    next.

    In 1994, Emmis Broadcasting, which owns Hot-97, bought Kiss-FM and
    changed its format to smooth soul and rhythm-and-blues, seeking
    older listeners with greater buying power. WBLS, aimed at the same
    audience, suddenly found its ratings plummeting. (The station's
    promotional spot advising listeners not to listen to "the tune of
    those plantation stations," referring to the white-owned stations
    of Emmis, probably didn't help.) Three months ago, WBLS brought
    back Frankie Crocker, an acclaimed disk jockey and program director
    at the station in the 70's and 80's, to try to boost ratings.
    But all these changes have probably served only to confuse the
    stations' listeners.

    Some radio consultants consider New York home to radio's top minds.
    But nowadays a radio go-getter is one who can raise ad revenue and
    ratings, not, as in the past, a disk jockey with taste and
    creativity.

    "When a station looks for disk jockeys, they look for easygoing
    kinds of people who aren't going to rock the boat or inflict their
    own personalities," said Mr. Scelsa, one of the few disk jockeys
    still allowed to choose the music he plays. "The freedom in the
    past few years has been on talk radio: those are the people who
    have the autonomy music D.J.'s used to have in the early 70's. Of
    course, if they stopped making money tomorrow, someone would be
    telling them what to say."

    Disk jockeys with musical freedom like Alan Freed, who gave birth
    to the phrase "rock-and-roll" in Cleveland in the 50's, and Tom
    (Big Daddy) Donahue, who ushered in the psychedelic era in San
    Francisco, are no longer considered the pioneers of FM radio.
    Credit for today's sound goes to Todd Storz, who, in Omaha in the
    late 50's, gave birth to the play list and the heavy rotation
    system (playing a few records repeatedly) after he noticed how
    often the same songs were being selected on bar jukeboxes. Another
    FM forefather is Bill Drake. In the 60's he narrowed radio's scope
    even further by surveying thousands of teen-agers in Los Angeles to
    come up with the top-40 format, in which only the hits are played,
    over and over, and D.J.'s read slogans rather than talk.

    But today, even top 40 is considered too loose a format. After all,
    top-40 music can range from soft rock to hard rap. Consultants have
    come up with designations like AC (adult contemporary), hot AC,
    urban AC, soft AC, NAC (new adult contemporary) and AAA (adult
    album alternative), among dozens of other splinter formats. There
    are, however, no stations for those who like easy-listening as well
    as world music, younger rock fans who also listen to rap, or
    classic rock fans who like jazz.

    Though New York is a multicultural city where people are exposed to
    all kinds of music every day, its radio formats are based on
    exclusion. "No rap, no hard stuff," boasts a promotional spot on
    WPLJ (95.5 FM). And Q104 brags that it plays few black artists,
    making announcements like: "No TLC, No Mariah Carey. Just pure
    rock."

    New York's only commercial station that eschews niche formats is
    WPAT (93.1 FM), which ended its easy-listening days last month
    after it was bought by Spanish Broadcasting Systems Inc. WPAT now
    caters to an adult Latin audience, but it has extended its
    definition of Latin pop to include not just Spanish-language
    artists like Luis Miguel but also the band Santana. Whitney Houston
    and Michael Jackson are also part of its mix.

    In noncommercial radio,WFMU (91.1 FM), which was owned by Upsala
    College, is often cited as the New York area's best radio station
    for its anything-goes approach to music. But WFMU is in trouble.
    Shortly before Upsala College went bankrupt, the station's
    management bought its operating license from the school. But it was
    unable to buy the building in which it was housed. In addition
    to having to relocate its studio, WFMU must move its transmitter as
    a result of a separate legal battle. "We need so much money
    at this point that we can't even ask for that amount on the air,"
    Mr. Freedman said.

    In most cities, those tired of cookie-cutter commercial radio
    formats can turn to noncommercial stations like WFMU on the
    low-end of the FM spectrum. Free of demands of advertisers,
    college-radio stations play cutting-edge music, religious
    broadcasters pray for your salvation and donations, and public
    stations mix everything from radio dramas to bluegrass to be-bop.

    New York has its fair share of these stations, but because of the
    structural density of Manhattan, most residents have trouble
    receiving them. Steel and concrete impede an FM signal, and the
    city's huge electrical output interferes with the AM band. An FM
    signal can also bounce off buildings, doubling back and canceling
    itself out, resulting in static or garbled reception. What's more,
    the noncommercial stations in the city are packed so closely
    together that many of their signals overlap.

    New York's hope, some say, may lie in the sheer number of stations
    that have been crammed onto the dial. There are now more than 60
    stations, and though one household may not receive all of them,
    most of these stations are painfully aware of one another.

    "Sometimes the fact that there are so many radio stations forces
    somebody to try something unique," said Guy Zapoleon, a top radio
    consultant. "The more signals there are, the more likely someone
    will try to create something with an edge to stand out."

    Has anyone done this in New York lately? "Not that I know of," Mr.
    Zapoleon said.


    Copyright 1996 The New York Times Company

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 25 21:34:53 2019
    Wyny.97.1 fm 103.5.fm.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 25 21:30:01 2019
    I miss wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5.fm.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 26 21:26:39 2019
    Wyny 97.1.fm and 103.5.fm.

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    Wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5 fm.

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    Wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5 fm.

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    Wyny 97.1.fm and 103.5.fm.

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    Wyny 97.1 fm and 103.5 fm

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 5 09:49:19 2019
    I miss wyny.

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  • From marchoffman449@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 5 09:50:40 2019
    I miss wyny

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