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CBS Radio’s K-Rock Returns to Gotham

A beloved New York rock radio station that flipped in January 2006 to an all-talk format is going back to its roots, and is once again being billed as K-Rock.

CBS Radio-owned WFNY-FM (92.3) adopted an all-talk format in January 2006. Of the all-talk format, only the Opie & Anthony show, which airs from 6 to 9 a.m. on weekdays, will remain, writes The New York Times.
John Mainelli, who was program director of the station during its brief run as a Free FM station, is also being replaced. Tom Chiusano, general manager of the station for the past 20 years, said that the change from the Free FM format back to K-Rock will make the station, “a better, more profitable radio station than Free was going to be… It will be better rated, with better revenue.”

CBS Radio has been in the spotlight recently thanks to a number of its hosts who have gone too far with some of their on-air comments. Don Imus has been fired, as have the hosts of The Dog House with Anthony & J.V., while the Opie & Anthony show has been suspended from its other home, on XM Radio, for 30 days.