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NEW CONSERVATIVE TALK STATION

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Mark Roberts said:
Was it ever a competitive station?
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Depends how you see it. A brokered station like Kyst had one employee and nothing else with very little overhead that was able to keep the same format for 40 years I would consider that a good operation .. what goes does it do to have a competitive station if all your billing goes into expenses?
 
101.9 La Kalle said:
No.

The crowd goes home!
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Some of the most important demographics for conservative talk live in suburbs that KYST can't reach with a proper signal. So the crowd may never even get to tune in.
radioislife2020 said:
you guys are hatting.
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I'm sorry. You're right. This station is totally going to shoot to the top of the ratings and become the most successful conservative talk station this market has ever seen. iHeart, Salem, and Dan Patrick are all shaking in their boots! /

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rosecitymedia said:
The simple answer is no, and that goes all the way back to its days as Top 40 KTLW. 920 hasn't been a blip on the Houston radar in most of our lives.
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KTLW was never Top 40. It was country from it's inception in 1948. At one time in Houston, there were only two country stations: KIKK 650 and KTLW 920. Both were daytimers. KTLW's signal was good for a 1000 watt radio station. The tower set on the edge of a salt water lake. You could hear it all the way to Corpus Christi. After it was purchased in the late 1970s, it became KYST and was Top 40.
 
ChuckTiller said:
KTLW was never Top 40. It was country from it's inception in 1948. At one time in Houston, there were only two country stations: KIKK 650 and KTLW 920. Both were daytimers. KTLW's signal was good for a 1000 watt radio station. The tower set on the edge of a salt water lake. You could hear it all the way to Corpus Christi. After it was purchased in the late 1970s, it became KYST and was Top 40.
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I could hear KIKK & KTLW almost all the way to Baton Rouge on I-10, like you noted, KTLW because of their antenna location and the saltwater path. However, I'd start losing KIKK about Lafayette when interference from KTIB 640 kicked in
 
ChuckTiller said:
KTLW was never Top 40. It was country from it's inception in 1948. At one time in Houston, there were only two country stations: KIKK 650 and KTLW 920. Both were daytimers. KTLW's signal was good for a 1000 watt radio station. The tower set on the edge of a salt water lake. You could hear it all the way to Corpus Christi. After it was purchased in the late 1970s, it became KYST and was Top 40.
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Sorry. I wasn't brought in to this world until 1971, so my time-line is apparently skewed. Still in all, my statement of 920's impact on the Houston radio landscape never meaning as much as a hill of beans is pretty apt. Their run as Top 40 must've been brief, because in 1982, John Lander and the Nut Hut would launch 79Q on KULF and the rest is history. Seens like KYST went to Spanish pretty soon after that.

I seem to remember 1070 and 1230 as a pair of country outlets around this same time, Chuck.
 
TheBigA said:
Once again, they pass laws that they don't enforce. How many did they arrest yesterday?
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Yesterday, I couldn't tell you, but literally thousands and thousands have seen the inside of a Texas jail over the course of the last year over this issue. Once they have been deemed ready for shipping out, they are then unceremoniously tossed onto a charter bus, with little more than the shirt on their back, to become a problem for someone else.

Don't Mess With Texas isn't just about litter anymore. Greg Abbott has made that all too clear since the pandemic.
 
TheBigA said:
You said the law didn't take effect until yesterday.
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I stated what the case is. The law took effect yesterday. The incarceration and confiscation of these people's belongings has been going on for quite awhile.
 
rosecitymedia said:
I stated what the case is. The law took effect yesterday. The incarceration and confiscation of these people's belongings has been going on for quite awhile.
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Then you're saying it's illegal.

Getting back to radio, we need to be clear that KYST didn't switch to English conservative talk in order to influence the voting by illegals.
 
TheBigA said:
Then you're saying it's illegal.

Getting back to radio, we need to be clear that KYST didn't switch to English conservative talk in order to influence the voting by illegals.
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Except that you will need a state issued Texas ID to vote down here. Can't get that without a birth certificate and social security number.
 
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