From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!brl-bmd!jsol
Newsgroups: net.music
Title: Re: Commercial Free Summer
Article-I.D.: brl-bmd.267
Posted: Wed Jul 21 20:01:07 1982
Received: Mon Jul 26 05:46:05 1982


YES!! It's true !! It's True. I was out in the NYC area for a week listening
to it, and it is indeed totally commercial free music. My guess as to how
they can afford it is that they are borrowing money from someone to try and
get a reasonable portion of the radio market so that in the fall they can
begin selling commercial airtime. Historically it has been nearly impossible
to break the WNEW/WPLJ/WPIX hold on NYC's listener audience (the one that
counts - the Rock and Roll audience - the ones you can count on to spend
alot of money on Blue Jeans, Beer, etc. etc.), and this may be an attempt
to replace WPIX (which just went mellow rock?).

Now, I wish someone would do something like that in LA.