 A major reason for this, and many of Big City Radio's other Spanish conversions, was that the signal combinations worked together to serve metropolitan areas, but failed to hit the urban areas which typically have Hispanic populations.Regardless of programming, while suburban residents (and rural farmers in the case of WWYY) were able to pick up the 107.1 signals, urban-dwelling Hispanics were unable to pick up the signals.In not only New York but also Chicago, former-Big City Radio stations adopted English-language formats once they were resold.