2nd Seattle country station

[KNBQ]

For sometime now, a few morons have posted about a new country station coming
on the air here in Seattle. So what's going on? I haven't heard any changes.
Were they thinking of 102.9 KNBQ? Not exactly a Seattle signal. (And I just find it hard to hear the KNBQ calls used for a country station. When I think of KNBQ, I think of a loud Tacoma top 40 rocker!) KMNT should have changed their call sign to KRAP. And whats this with KMNT being reborn on 104.3? Isn't two
country stations licensed to the same general area and owned by cc enough?
When I heard the change of calls on 102.9, I was hoping that a new format of
80's style hard rock was going to come on. (like Van Halen, Ratt, Motley Crue
etc...) What a bummer to hear country again!! BTW, where's that TOM moron anyway??

FM97
KNBQ

 

[eastsidah]

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Here's a hint...maybe you'll get it. Don't look at KNBQ as an opportunty for Clear Channel to dethrone KMPS as the top country station in the market, or even for KNBQ to ever match KMPS in billing...Think of KNBQ as the sacrificial lamb, put there to take a bit (or a nibble) out of KMPS...juuuust enough to bring KMPS down a peg..or a .5 of a peg even, thereby allowing Clear Channel to possibly have one of its stations as the number one overall in the Market...my how the dollars would roll in...at least in their thinking.

KMNT resurfacing on 104.3 in Chehalis is a means for CC to appease the local country-folk in that market by allowing them to keep their "local" country station, and for CC to continue billing in that market. I hope that pays off for them, as much as they overpaid for that allocation. Make sense now?


For sometime now, a few morons have posted about a new
> country station coming
> on the air here in Seattle. So what's going on? I haven't
> heard any changes.
> Were they thinking of 102.9 KNBQ? Not exactly a Seattle
> signal. (And I just find it hard to hear the KNBQ calls used
> for a country station. When I think of KNBQ, I think of a
> loud Tacoma top 40 rocker!) KMNT should have changed their
> call sign to KRAP. And whats this with KMNT being reborn on
> 104.3? Isn't two
> country stations licensed to the same general area and owned
> by cc enough?
> When I heard the change of calls on 102.9, I was hoping that
> a new format of
> 80's style hard rock was going to come on. (like Van Halen,
> Ratt, Motley Crue
> etc...) What a bummer to hear country again!! BTW, where's
> that TOM moron anyway??
>
> FM97
> KNBQ
>