WLIR is dead… again

Has it been a year already? I read the news today on Radio Online (oh boy):

WEPN-AM (1050 ESPN)/New York inks a multi-year Local Marketing Agreement (LMA) with The Morey Organization to simulcast the Sports/Talk outlet on WLIR-FM (107.1)/Hampton Bays, NY, and covering Suffolk County, beginning January 21. The move follows WEPN’s similar deal with Nassau Broadcasting Partners’ WCHR-AM (1040)/Flemington, NJ.

Sports on 107.1?  No thanks.  So, what’s left as the alternative? (no pun intended)

FM 104.1 in Hartford washes up on Long Island shores and gets around somewhat, but their signal is a bit better on the east end.  WEHM could go heavier on the alternative side of things with its AAA format, but 92.9 FM doesn’t reach too far west.  On the non-commercial end of things, there’s WUSB and WPKN, where you have some programming suited to that kind of music.

Then there’s subscription-based satellite radio, XM and Sirius, which looks like where many alternative fans are headed, if they’re not already there.