BIG CITY RADIO ADOPTS WYNY-FM CALL LETTERS FOR NEW YORK STATION.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--December 17, 1998--Big City Radio, Inc. (Amex: YFM YFM Yorkshire Fund Managers (UK) ) today announced that its New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of station, formerly WWXY-FM, has adopted the heritage New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. country music radio call letters call letters pl.n. The identifying code letters or numbers of a radio or television transmitting station, assigned by a regulatory body. Also called call sign. WYNY-FM. Michael Kakoyiannis, Chief Executive Officer of Big City Radio, commented, "The adoption of WYNY-FM as call letters for our New York station is a testimonial to WYNY's successful history operating a Country format - the single most popular radio format in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. - in the New York market." Station WYNY-FM will continue to identify itself as "New Country Y-107" on the air. New Country Y-107 is broadcast on 107.1 FM and represents the synchronized transmission of stations WYNY-FM (New York), WWVY-FM (Long Island) and WWYY-FM and WWZY-FM (New Jersey). Big City Radio Inc. acquires radio broadcast properties in or adjacent to major metropolitan markets and utilizes innovative engineering techniques and low-cost, ratings-driven operating strategies to develop these properties into successful metropolitan radio stations. Big City Radio currently owns and operates radio stations in New York Statements in this news release relating to matters that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Big City Radio to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include shifts in population and other demographics, changes in audience tastes, the level of competition for advertising dollars, priorities of advertisers, fluctuations in operating costs, new laws and governmental regulations and policies, changes in broadcast technical requirements, changes in the willingness of financial institutions and other lenders to finance radio station acquisitions and operations, and other factors which are described in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. |
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