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Goodbye K-LUV, Hello The Spot (98.7)

rosecitymedia said:
Yes, it is. Only one left.
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If I read their website correctly, it appears to be Gospel music during "morning and afternoon drive" and paid preaching the rest of the daylight hours. They are required to sign off (or power down to something that makes the station basically unlistenable) at sunset.
 
AlanB said:
If I read their website correctly, it appears to be Gospel music during "morning and afternoon drive" and paid preaching the rest of the daylight hours. They are required to sign off (or power down to something that makes the station basically unlistenable) at sunset.
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It's a daytimer. 3,300 watts days, 2,800 critical hours. I'll take you at your word on the schedule, Alan. I'm not a regular listener. Just stop on it for a minute when I have a little time to DX, just to see what it is doing, and then move on up the dial. I have heard both music and preachers preaching while passing through. MARC has a translator for it at 106.9, covering Dallas, so they are running programming 24/7.
 
New Orleans has urban gospel on “Heaven 106.7.” I’m not sure how well it does, though, and it’s an odd format for Cumulus. I guess they figure the market has the demographics to support it.
 
Kent said:
It makes money, even if less than it should make, and is on a mediocre signal. Previous so-called "general market" formats have not done well on 95.7 in Memphis.

Isn't KGGR still airing urban gospel in DFW?
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It is only a daytime station with alot of preaching and teaching.
 
Just to clarify something, Urban Gospel not just the 5 Blind Boys and The Mighty Clouds of Joy. It has really evolved with a much younger audience and artists as well. Tye Tribbett is one artist that comes to mind. So don't get it confused. Every listener doesn't have one foot in the grave.
 
neosolbrudda said:
Just to clarify something, Urban Gospel not just the 5 Blind Boys and The Mighty Clouds of Joy. It has really evolved with a much younger audience and artists as well. Tye Tribbett is one artist that comes to mind. So don't get it confused. Every listener doesn't have one foot in the grave.
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Yes, but about 75% of the cume is over 55 at the few FMs with the format. In Memphis, 2nd in 45 and over, 8th or 9th in 18-34.
 
rosecitymedia said:
It would be the deal of the century, that's for sure, but I'm near certain that Cumulus is not ready to give up the cash cow. You guys have several other signals that would certainly satify EMF in a purchase to enter K-Love into the Houston market. 101.1? It's not setting the world on fire, and truthfully not a good strategic fit in the cluster that they operate. 96.5? Better fit in the cluster, but with The Spot already in the Adult Hits lane, a few tweaks to 95.7 could give that audience a new "spot" on the dial to call home. How about 94.5 from iHeart? If iHeart is really committed to active rock, the money gathered from a sale of KTBZ-FM could be used to purchase one of those high powered translators (104.5 comes to mind, remember they leased it a few years back for 104.5 Kiss-FM?), attach it to KPRC, and keep the format available, just with a much smaller footprint. More than likely, you all would just lose the Active rock format on the dial, but I'm just throwing out a scenario (or something against the wall).

You must know something that I don't. Vida Unida has not been making much of an impact in the Spanish language Christian programming lane since its debut, from the numbers I've seen. It's not performing as badly as NGEN was, but not blazing a trail, either. It's fine for leaving the service on the handful of stations that they already own, (I mean what else do they do with those rather abysmal facilities?) but highly unlikely they are going out and purchasing a multimillion dollar signal in Dallas for any product expansion. Remember, Dallas-Fort Worth has just about as many Spanish language religious options on the dial as you do, the difference being that these translators are typically always operated within their licensed parameters.
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iHeart won’t run a translator at 1000+ watts and originate programming.
 
NickD said:
iHeart won’t run a translator at 1000+ watts and originate programming.
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All I know is they haven't done so in DFW. Didn't do it here, either, where they once owned the now Townsquare stations.
 
neosolbrudda said:
So just to clarify, 18-34 is in the top ten. Correct?
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Yes, but after the first 5 or 6 stations in that demo, the shares fall way, way off.
 
As far as I'm concerned, case closed.

I'm on my way back to Ft. Worth from Houston. I recorded 3 hours of 95.7 The Spot. I'm going to see how much of a difference it is from 98.7 The Spot.
 
At what time is the soon to be KSPF actually giving the call sign? I've been listening at random for the last couple of weeks, and just after the top of the hour I hear a 30 second branding statement that contains everything except what I am supposed to hear at that time: "KLUV Dallas."

I assume they are dropping it in the middle of a long commercial break sometime around the 50 minute mark of the hour?
 
New call sign should go into effect at 12:01 tonight, June 26th.
 
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