Then one fine mornin’ she puts on a New York station
You know, she don’t believe what crap she heard at all…
Kind of a trick question, but you never know.
Recently* I put on my car radio tuned to 101.9 WXRP - great mix of classic and modern rock/new music - heard people yakking and yakking and yakking…and no music. A search later showed that 101.9 was changed to a Talk-FM† station called WEMP. Yet another great rock radio station is gone from NY.
So, we in western Long Island (including Queens & Brooklyn) seem to be stuck w/ WAXQ 104.3 (Classic Rock‡ - 60-80s), WNEW 102.7 (More or less classic Rock), and WBAB (102.3 - they have been known to occasional play a rock song from the 21st century…occasionally). The once mightly WLIR has been releganted to the East end for a decade now, apparently transmitting from Mars using Soviert Cold-War era equipment judging from the signal strength. And…I can’t think of any other on-air^§, radio station candidates for Alt/Mod/Prog/New rock listenable (decent signal) in the NY/Long Island area - Can You, Fellow LI dopers? 
**tl:dr version:**Where the Hell are the on-air Modern Rock/Alternative Rock/Hard Rock New Music radio stations in NY/Western Long Island?
Footnotes - Hooray!
*The change apparently happended in late July, but for whatever reason I didn’t listen to my car radio for awhile. Guess I am not a valued listener after all…
†An abomination in and of itself, wasting a good, static free music-ready FM channel on people yakking - but insult was added when one of the proposed WEMP ads was NEWS near YOUR music - you idiots, this was MY music :smack:.
‡ I actually do like Boston, Led Zep, Stones, REM, Eddie Money, Dire Straights - the Monkees even - just would prefer not to be limited to just the 60s thru 80s
^I understand that XM radio exists, and I also understand that it requires payment of funds to maintain a subscription - 'nuff said.
§People are streaming their favorite radio station thru their smart-phones via USB to their car radios - great, except cell phone carriers are eliminating unlimited data usage plans - this will not end well for the consumer, e.g. “Streaming high quality music (192 kbps / 1 hour) = 86.4 MBytes”; 1 gigabyte ~ 11.5hours at that rate; Overages for both carriers [AT&T and Verizon] in most cases are $10 per gigabyte [over their plan limits, which aren’t that hot to begin with]
BTW, you are prohibited from wearing headphones while driving in NY State - however, I beleive that when the ‘Hands-Free’ cell-phone laws were passed. they envisioned the use of Bluetooh single ear-pieces and NOT ear-buds in both ears - so you’d need to play the stream thru the radio to comply with the law, or somehow mix your ear-bud signal to mono or just listen to one stereo channel to comply with the law - however, since so many people are using hand-hell phones or, better yet, texting away while driving, the cops already have enough suckers to reach their ticket quotas without citing for headphones