WSJT/Tampa Flipping To Sports In August

[Richard J. Cabral]

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/107347/wsjt-tampa-flipping-to-sports-in-august

Feel free to reply to this thread with your comments.  I will miss Play 98.7, however it is an Adult CHR flavor of Hot AC that focused primarily on currents and recurrents.  Personally, I like something more like 96.9 WINK FM in Fort Myers as someone else posted earlier.  Mix 100.7 is also better at including gold cuts from the '90s and even '80s.  By the way, I am from Massachusetts, but I did live in St. Petersburg in 2008-2009 before moving back north.  I will be moving back to Tampa Bay sometime within the next 10 years, but this time it will be for good!

[tngu77]

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/107347/wsjt-tampa-flipping-to-sports-in-august

Feel free to reply to this thread with your comments.  I will miss Play 98.7, however it is an Adult CHR flavor of Hot AC that focused primarily on currents and recurrents.  Personally, I like something more like 96.9 WINK FM in Fort Myers as someone else posted earlier.  Mix 100.7 is also better at including gold cuts from the '90s and even '80s.  By the way, I am from Massachusetts, but I did live in St. Petersburg in 2008-2009 before moving back north.  I will be moving back to Tampa Bay sometime within the next 10 years, but this time it will be for good!

* WSJT flipping to Sports?  I never saw that coming... (sarc)  Flipping from Smooth Jazz (later Soft AC) to Adult CHR/Hot AC was a sore thumb for CBS Radio Tampa.

* I can pull in WINK-FM from IRB.  I like WINK.

* Such a shame Mix isn't doing all-80's EVERY WEEKEND...

* Welcome back to the Bay area!  (soon)  I was originally from up north and lived here in the Bay area for essentially all my life.

[cd637299]

If this is true, they don't have to change the name...."Play 98.7" for sports sounds good.....or not. 

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[gamefreak]

Well CBS has put in several sports stations in many different cities, so I guess this is no surprise. While the signal for 98.7 isn't great it should cover most of the market alright. Since its a Talk format that helps matters a little, since it doesn't have to be in Stereo.

Yes, making all-80's a weekend staple on Mix would be awesome.

[Obtuse1]

A lot of us saw this coming. I wonder what becomes of 1010 AM when this occurs? Simulcast? Brokered talk? Oldies?

[pjc1961]

CBS Radio press release on CBS Local Tampa site:
http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/06/20/987-the-fan-tampa-bay-gets-its-first-fm-sports-talk-radio-station/

[MsMusicRadio]

Yuck

[gamefreak]

Yuck

While Play 98.7 is a good station it isn't doing it with the ratings. I'm more of a music person than a sports person as well. At least Mix still plays a lot of the same music.

[Obtuse1]

CBS Radio press release on CBS Local Tampa site:
http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/06/20/987-the-fan-tampa-bay-gets-its-first-fm-sports-talk-radio-station/

Answered my question (simulcast it is).

[MsMusicRadio]

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