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105.3 The Fail
- Thread starter jeffdfw
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I think thye should go AAA just like WXRT in Chicago and give the Sport up. They could still carry The Cowboys. I know, 91.7 is there, but The new AAA could play different music like The Zone did.
Xrt does very well..and has for over 30 years..As a chicagoian now transplanted here, never ceases to amaze me their following.
Sox Fan Matt, I am also a Chicagoan as well. I remember XRT.
Or at least put XRT on one of the HD2.radioaircheck said:
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Been there, done that in DFW...KEWS-94.9 FM, "The first all-news FM station in America, made in Texas." Had a short run during 1995-96. KFNC-97.5 in Houston tried the same thing about three years ago...didn't make it.d21ofnj said:
Your question ought to be, "What the hell is now up with TALK on FM?" Expect more of that if the royalties-for-singers bill gets approved. Stations are already ready to bail out of music instead of paying up to $10K a year in royalties PER STATION, on top of what they already pay ASCAP/BMI.
I don't understand this. Where are all the folks that wanted real local sports talk, not guy talk and farting?
evening times said:
Folks like farting and guy talk. KTCK is not complaining.
"Xrt does very well..and has for over 30 years..As a chicagoian now transplanted here, never ceases to amaze me their following." That's because Danny Lee and his dad put XRT litterly on the air for the ability to rent out their SCA channel to background music back in the 60s. Danny let Seth Mason go "play" with the main signal and the results are obvious. 30 years later, even big corporate ownership hasn't totally screwed the station up. Danny Lee was the type of owner that would get a good manager and let him go hire good people to do the work without second-guessing everyone and doing things top-down. When he sold, it was because his health was declining some and he wanted to make sure his wife and kids were taken care of. He sold XRT, WSCR, and WSBC in Chicagoland for 70 million to Westinghouse. He sold his phone company for about 35 million. He sold us here in OKC (KOMA-AM-FM/KRXO) for 53 million which was about 15 times billing. He had somewhere around 6 in it and of course made good money on the stations for a decade. You know how it did it? He let his help actually do their damn job happily without constant interference. He belived in talent (although he was an engineering guy himself) and was willing to pay for it. This industry needs more Danny Lees that are willing to let the "kids go play some of that rock and roll stuff" and less top-down bean counting. Would Chicagoland have had XRT if big corporate had owned it back then? I think the answer would have to be not only no but hell no.
My best memory of Danny was when we were up in the ceiling working on something. He just walked up the ladder and started helping us with what we were doing. Here's a guy that's worth millions and he's helping us do our work. Now there's a boss that deserves respect!
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