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« on: April 11, 2012, 05:36:08 AM » |
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With the sale of CBS Radio's West Palm Beach cluster comes the imminent departure of the WHFS callsign, which had been in the Washington market for forty years. It was recently whisked off to WPB in exchange for the previously parked WNEW, which is now the callsign for DC's all-news 99.1. |
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« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2012, 04:38:55 PM » |
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With the sale of CBS Radio's West Palm Beach cluster comes the imminent departure of the WHFS callsign, which had been in the Washington market for forty years. It was recently whisked off to WPB in exchange for the previously parked WNEW, which is now the callsign for DC's all-news 99.1. If CBS intends to hang onto the HFS brand--which I imagine they do, since they have an HFS-branded station back on the air in Baltimore--I'm sure that radio station will be getting a new set of call letters by the time the deal is done. |
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« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2012, 12:06:59 PM » |
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It seems brands can live on without the original calls these days. Internet stations and LPFMs keep all the heritage stations on the back burner and maybe,just maybe,they'll be resurrected on strong FMs with the old call letters when the suits are finished grinding all other formats deep into the landfill.
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« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2012, 10:49:43 AM » |
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The translator can't get the WHFS call letters. Perhaps it can find its way to 106.5 or 94.7.
The average person thinks the call letters of 97.5 is WHFS.
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« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2012, 10:55:00 PM » |
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"The average person thinks the call letters of 97.5 is WHFS."
Yeah but the real freaks cringe during the TOH calls...it reminds us of how many lobotomys HFS has suffered....I still brace myself a little when I turn on the radio. CBS needs to bring back WHFS FM....AS HFS!!!!
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« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2012, 05:48:50 AM » |
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They can bury "WWMX-HD2 Baltimore W248AO Baltimore" in a stopset, and make another ID that proclaims "WHFS 97.5 Baltimore, a CBS Radio station"
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« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2012, 05:56:08 AM » |
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Well, if a low-power TV station in Cincinnati can call themselves WKRP, anything is possible at this point...
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« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2012, 09:22:08 AM » |
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Well, if a low-power TV station in Cincinnati can call themselves WKRP, anything is possible at this point...
Very true. And if it's something unorthodox you can bet HFS will be involved somehow. Not much about the station has ever been "normal". I've read on other posts and forum that advertisers don't want to take a chance on HD but HFS has ads just like they did on traditional FM....seems they're pulling thier weight to me..... |
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« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2012, 01:16:12 PM » |
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Wouldn't they put the calls on 1580 AM? After all, they put WNEW on 1580 while moving them to 99.1 with the intention of changing them back.
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« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2012, 04:38:58 AM » |
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Wouldn't they put the calls on 1580 AM? After all, they put WNEW on 1580 while moving them to 99.1 with the intention of changing them back.
My understanding is that they had no intentions of putting the WHFS calls back on 1580, and that CBS wants the station to be co-branded with WNEW-FM. |
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