iHeart Buys Two in D/FW...

[salemjedi54]

iHeartMedia Acquires Two Dallas Area AMs - RadioInsight

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Could one of these become a Black Information Network station. I think it will take some moves. A&M sports airs on 1630, so Aggie will have to find a new home in D/FW since 92.1 The Possum barely gets into D/FW.

 

[Mediafrog+]

iHeartMedia Acquires Two Dallas Area AMs - RadioInsight

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Could one of these become a Black Information Network station. I think it will take some moves. A&M sports airs on 1630, so Aggie will have to find a new home in D/FW since 92.1 The Possum barely gets into D/FW.

I think one of these might get spun off again, likely 970...but just a guess. 1630 will probably flip to BIN. No idea if they'd put BIN on both signals.

BTW ignore the "1/2 watt" info for the KKGM translator...appears the final goal is 250 watts covering the mid cities.

 

[neosolbrudda]

I think one of these might get spun off again, likely 970...but just a guess. 1630 will probably flip to BIN. No idea if they'd put BIN on both signals.

BTW ignore the "1/2 watt" info for the KKGM translator...appears the final goal is 250 watts covering the mid cities.

So my question is, what will they do with 92.1?

 

[neosolbrudda]

Would be nice if Urban One would purchase some more here. By the way, anything new on 103.3?

 

[salemjedi54]

So my question is, what will they do with 92.1?

Nothing...92.1 is owned by another company. 92.1 The Possum also carries Aggie Sports.

103.3 is going to remain an ESPN station until Disney sells it. Its still is the flagship of the Dallas Mavericks Radio Network.

 

[neosolbrudda]

Nothing...92.1 is owned by another company. 92.1 The Possum also carries Aggie Sports.

103.3 is going to remain an ESPN station until Disney sells it. Its still is the flagship of the Dallas Mavericks Radio Network.

I think this 92.1 is a different 92.1 from The Possum.
From RBR:

DFW AM Duo Acquired By iHeart For BIN Home | Radio & Television Business Report

Add Dallas-Fort Worth to the markets where iHeartMedia is investing in AM radio stations, albeit with FM translators, to solidify owned-and-operated homes for its recently launched Black Information Network (BIN). The company has filed paperwork that sees the nation's largest licensee purchasing...

www.rbr.com

 

[salemjedi54]

I think this 92.1 is a different 92.1 from The Possum.
From RBR:

DFW AM Duo Acquired By iHeart For BIN Home | Radio & Television Business Report

Add Dallas-Fort Worth to the markets where iHeartMedia is investing in AM radio stations, albeit with FM translators, to solidify owned-and-operated homes for its recently launched Black Information Network (BIN). The company has filed paperwork that sees the nation's largest licensee purchasing...

www.rbr.com

thats what I said.

92.1 KXEZ carries Aggie sports along with 1630 KKGM. Mortenson does not own KXEZ. KXEZ is co owned with KHYI,. Its two different radio stations. There is a 92.1 over in Fort Worth KTFW. So how is another 92.1 being squeezed between Gunter and Azle. Well anyway with that being said...iHeart is going to put BIN on one of those stations...970 or 1630.

 

[Kent]

As Mediafrog notes, the plan is to upgrade the 92.1 translator to 250 watts from its almost Part 15 status right now. At that point, it will cover the Tarrant County side of the Mid-Cities reasonably well, though I understand KTFW is, or was, fighting it. Whatever is done with that translator, it will have to relay 1630. I'm thinking that's one that will have to be paired with that translator for life as I'm pretty sure Mortenson got it free in the AM translator window.

I last lived in DFW almost 25 years ago, but the old KCLE-FM 92.1 came in quite well where I lived (Hulen and Vickery area). I worked in Arlington in what's now the Chase Bank building about a block north of Park Row and Bowen, and I remember being able to hear it there, too. I tend to think KTFW will have cause to be upset if that translator signs on, though it will depend on how many listeners complain of interference.

 

[neosolbrudda]

As Mediafrog notes, the plan is to upgrade the 92.1 translator to 250 watts from its almost Part 15 status right now. At that point, it will cover the Tarrant County side of the Mid-Cities reasonably well, though I understand KTFW is, or was, fighting it. Whatever is done with that translator, it will have to relay 1630. I'm thinking that's one that will have to be paired with that translator for life as I'm pretty sure Mortenson got it free in the AM translator window.

I last lived in DFW almost 25 years ago, but the old KCLE-FM 92.1 came in quite well where I lived (Hulen and Vickery area). I worked in Arlington in what's now the Chase Bank building about a block north of Park Row and Bowen, and I remember being able to hear it there, too. I tend to think KTFW will have cause to be upset if that translator signs on, though it will depend on how many listeners complain of interference.

KTFW is the station that I pick up, (fringe), out here in the North Ft. Worth/Saginaw part of town, and I was thinking how that would work out.

 

[Mediafrog+]

I think one of these might get spun off again, likely 970...but just a guess.

After I posted that, the thought occurred to me: The 1630 frequency is the X-band companion to 970. The original plan behind such stations was that the original frequency (in this case 970) would stay on the air for five years after the X-band companion launch, then the original station would be shut down and the license deleted. Of course that didn't happen in this case and in many other such combinations across the country.

So the question is: Are 970 and 1630 still joined at the hip? Do they both have to remain as a co-owned pair? Or could one of them be spun off?

 

[tested]

After I posted that, the thought occurred to me: The 1630 frequency is the X-band companion to 970. The original plan behind such stations was that the original frequency (in this case 970) would stay on the air for five years after the X-band companion launch, then the original station would be shut down and the license deleted. Of course that didn't happen in this case and in many other such combinations across the country.

So the question is: Are 970 and 1630 still joined at the hip? Do they both have to remain as a co-owned pair? Or could one of them be spun off?

Alternately: iheart could put the same programming on both and flip one to all-digital.

 

[neosolbrudda]

I just finished recording over 24 hours of Heaven 97, and on one of the shows, they made an announcement that starting January 1st, they would no longer be heard on the station.

 

[salemjedi54]

I just finished recording over 24 hours of Heaven 97, and on one of the shows, they made an announcement that starting January 1st, they would no longer be heard on the

Wow

 

[MRD]

Political correctness strikes again.

 

[neosolbrudda]

Wow

So I'm assuming 970 will be affected in some sort of way.

 

[salemjedi54]

Political correctness strikes again.

How is this political correctness?

 

[MRD]

If you have to ask, you will never know.

 

[salemjedi54]

If you have to ask, you will never know.

So you are saying that a music format programmed for mostly black women that may be replaced by a news and information format programmed for black adults is political correctness. LOL....I think that is funny.

 

[tested]

I think there's a better chance iHeart will keep KHVN as it is and flip KKGM to BIN. It would be much easier to use KHVN on 970 to promote BIN on 1630 than to try to win over the audience on 970 with entirely new programming.

 

[neosolbrudda]

I think there's a better chance iHeart will keep KHVN as it is and flip KKGM to BIN. It would be much easier to use KHVN on 970 to promote BIN on 1630 than to try to win over the audience on 970 with entirely new programming.

Is it a possibility that 970 will stay Urban Gospel, but will be the "Hallelujah" brand that iHeart has? Probably voicetracked and no longer local.