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February numbers are here

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Mediafrog+

February 2026 numbers: Houston/Galveston

No more numbers from Cumulus or TelevisaUnivision as they have dropped the book. Guess they are keeping company with Gow Media.šŸ˜µā€šŸ’«šŸ¤

93Q doubles The Bull.

The Spot in a recovery trend.

KUHF in the fours.

La Ley bounces back.

Mega still stuck in the ones.

Classical, Tejano and Gospel still showing up on HD-only signals.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
February 2026 numbers: Houston/Galveston

No more numbers from Cumulus or TelevisaUnivision as they have dropped the book. Guess they are keeping company with Gow Media.šŸ˜µā€šŸ’«šŸ¤

93Q doubles The Bull.

The Spot in a recovery trend.

KUHF in the fours.

La Ley bounces back.

Mega still stuck in the ones.

Classical, Tejano and Gospel still showing up on HD-only signals.
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Televisa can't have bad numbers if they don't subscribe anymore.

Not a conventional solution, but a solution nonetheless I guess šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø.
 
Good to see KTSU is consistent.
 
101.9 La Kalle said:
The only markets I can think of where Televisa most of the time didn't end up with crap all over their face were San Diego, San Jose and Los Angeles.
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Chicago, San Diego and Miami, too. WAMR has been leading Spanish language station for 30 years.

San Jose is not a ā€œreal marketā€ as it is embedded in San Francisco. Dallas does very well and on deficient signals so does Phoenix.
 
dm2024 said:
Will be interesting to see Univision -Televisa sell with no numbers. But this had been in the works for a while now .
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Remember, stations with over a 0.1 rating will show in subscriber reports. That includes the reports that go to add agencies. That means that the significant UVN stations will show up in all of the agency data that is used for buys.

The only difference is that their sellers cannot use that data in presentations. But with so many buys being based on pure data, it will be interesting to see if this even affects them at all.
 
salemjedi54 said:
Good to see KTSU is consistent.
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Despite the recent trend of colleges and universities selling off their radio stations, I donā€™t see KTSU going anywhere. The station appears to be a pillar of Houstonā€™s African-American community, and any attempt by Texas Southern University to sell it would probably be met with tremendous blowback.

The KTSU signal is not good; it covers Houstonā€™s urban core but starts to die once you drive out of Harris County. It might be a decent landing spot for a Spanish language programmer like Radio Nueva Vida, as 90.9 has good coverage of the heavily Hispanic areas of the metro. KHCB could also use it for their Spanish language effort, currently restricted to a bad AM signal and a very limited FM translator.

The college owned station I do wonder about is KPVU, which is essentially irrelevant as it misses most of the Houston market. It does have decent coverage of high growth areas of far NW Harris County, however. Might be a nice addition to expand KJICā€™s format coverage.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Despite the recent trend of colleges and universities selling off their radio stations, I donā€™t see KTSU going anywhere. The station appears to be a pillar of Houstonā€™s African-American community, and any attempt by Texas Southern University to sell it would probably be met with tremendous blowback.

The KTSU signal is not good; it covers Houstonā€™s urban core but starts to die once you drive out of Harris County. It might be a decent landing spot for a Spanish language programmer like Radio Nueva Vida, as 90.9 has good coverage of the heavily Hispanic areas of the metro. KHCB could also use it for their Spanish language effort, currently restricted to a bad AM signal and a very limited FM translator.

The college owned station I do wonder about is KPVU, which is essentially irrelevant as it misses most of the Houston market. It does have decent coverage of high growth areas of far NW Harris County, however. Might be a nice addition to expand KJICā€™s format coverage.
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The alumni base for TSU is too strong for KTSU to fail.
 
radioislife2020 said:
Guess They figured they were going to have a hard time without being able to sell numbers. The problem is that they are sinking in multiple markets.
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Remember, ad agencies buy the ratings, and all stations that meet the minimum reporting standard for non-subscribers get the data. All that a station is limited to is using ratings data in sales presentations. But the agencies do have the data needed to make buys, just as always.
 
I really doubt KJIC is going to buy anything. The last annual I saw showed about $4,000 a month income. Another source tells me it is about $7,000 month.
 
b-turner said:
I really doubt KJIC is going to buy anything.
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I wonā€™t disagree with you. KJIC is a unique format that might have some legs were it on a full market signal. However the current coverage dies north of I-10, thus missing a lot of the potential suburban evangelical audience. The dinky exurban KQLC simulcast doesnā€™t add much.

KJIC is likely future acquisition bait for a national religious broadcaster.

Interesting side note: For the last several years on I-45 near Ennis there has been a billboard for KJIC promoting its online app.
 
I alwys thought Christian Country could be a very viable format if presented in a secular format style. I know back at KYND in the 1990s the issue was getting enough product, especially professionally produced. It was too much cheaply self-produced and people lacking talent. We had to mix 75% family friendly lyric hit country to make the 'Kind Country' music mix work. I spoke with Robert Vaughn several times. We talked about expanding but the best he could offer was 50% of listener donations from our coverage area. I needed $17,000-$18,000 a month back then to break even so I needed a guarantee.
 
b-turner said:
I alwys thought Christian Country could be a very viable format if presented in a secular format style.
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The KJIC presentation is quite straightforward without a lot of clutter, nicely done. ā€œCountry Music for your soulā€ is a great tagline.

Iā€™ve wondered if K-Love Inc. has ever considered relaunching a national Christian Country format. They did have ā€œGodā€™s Country Radioā€ some years ago. I think a key to success would be avoiding Southern Gospel, which is musically different and has very limited appeal.

God's Country Radio Network - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Wonder if Hope Media Group would have interest in KJIC to add another format to their portfolio?
b-turner said:
I know back at KYND in the 1990s the issue was getting enough product, especially professionally produced. It was too much cheaply self-produced and people lacking talent. We had to mix 75% family friendly lyric hit country to make the 'Kind Country' music mix work.
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I donā€™t think adequate Christian Country content is an issue these days. You can check the last several hours of the KJIC playlist and there are plenty of artists, some of whom are familiar names in the secular Country industry.
 
Does a Regional Mexican Christian station not work?
Grupo Juda,
Grupo Sublime
Humberto RodrĆ­guez,
Firmez
Oscar Ovidio,
Navita Y su Violin
Banda CreaciĆ³n,
Los Herederos
InspiraciĆ³n Cristiana ect ect . Would a 100% regional station work?
 
Mrtejano said:
Does a Regional Mexican Christian station not work?
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Any examples of stations running such a format? I would think there would be quite a few in this part of the country, likely LPFMs and other non-comms in smaller markets.

Vida Unida doesnā€™t appear to be radically different from English language CCM and P&W other than itā€™s in Spanish. Havenā€™t listened to Radio Nueva Vida enough to be deeply familiar with its musical style.
 
Mrtejano said:
Does a Regional Mexican Christian station not work?
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As a non-commercial station that is supported by pay for pray revenue? Maybe. It all depends if there are enough looney evangelicals out there willing to pay for it.

But as a commercial station? No. Hispanics are still majority Catholic and this kind of music is heretical to them. The extravagant and non-denominational crossover doesn't appeal to them. Catholicism is built in tradition and solemnity rather than mixing modern fads (strip mall churches, flashy dancing, loud music, etc.) with "Jesus".
 
BamaTX said:
As a non-commercial station that is supported by pay for pray revenue? Maybe. It all depends if there are enough looney evangelicals out there willing to pay for it.
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What is "pay for pray revenue"? I've never heard of that term and don't have any idea what you are talking about. Was someone selling prayers?

Your characterizations are not very helpful. Why are they "looney" if they are willing to donate to keep something they enjoy on the air?

I'm not a big public radio fan or a regular listener of classical music, but supporting a service you get value from or a cause that you believe in does not make you looney; seems perfectly rational to me.
 


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