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Air1 takes over 103.7 today at 5pm

John Davis just informed me, which i updated on the blog, that former KSBJ afternoon jock Liz Jordan will be voicetracking weekends on the Air1 network per her blog.
 
Last 4 songs:
"Last Dance w/Mary Jane" Tom Petty
"In the End" Linkin Park
Recorded thank you message to listeners from the station voice (Mike McKay); Steve or Donna should have done it, IMO
"Closing Time" Semisonic
"It's the End of the World As We Know It" REM
Air 1 kicked off before the end of REM's song just before 5.
 
Audacity is crashing on me so I will need to restart after Total Recorder finishes recording this hour of Air1. I will make a truncated version of that clip with the Air1 DJ's comments as well, and I will try to grab some clips of Steve and Donna from yesterday since that did end up being their last day on the air with KHJK.
 
Initial thoughts:

Air 1 seems to share more titles with KSBJ than NGEN. It's like a Christian Hot AC, both musically and in presentation. NGEN rocks harder and is edgier.

That being said, there's probably room for all of them to exist comfortably. if KSBJ is the Christian Sunny 99.1, Air 1 is the Christian Mix 96.5 and NGEN is the Christian KRBE.
 
Obviously Air1 on 103.7 is an LMA for the time being. Much quicker turnaround time for the flip than was the case with 97.7 in the San Antonio market.

Of course we now await the other shoe dropping with Gow taking over 97.5. LMA in the cards pending the actual sale? Will be interesting to see the changes there and on 1560--you'd think they'd want things in place ASAP with football just around the corner.
 
I will miss KHJK, I discovered many new artist on that station. Kinda was too good to be true to have AAA in Houston for as long as it lasted.
 
What a crock! Did we seriously need another religious station here? First, Cox kills off The Zone and now they kill off the only station worth listening to in Houston. You suck. You suck. The music on the new station is terrible anyways. Sounds like a bunch of teeny bop Disney crap. And note, I'm not bashing religious music but I prefer the classical library of choral masses and hymns over this teen pop crap.

Boo to you Houston. Boo. Corporate greed once again wins over the general audience.
 
sdh483 said:
What a crock! Did we seriously need another religious station here? First, Cox kills off The Zone and now they kill off the only station worth listening to in Houston. You suck. You suck. The music on the new station is terrible anyways. Sounds like a bunch of teeny bop Disney crap. And note, I'm not bashing religious music but I prefer the classical library of choral masses and hymns over this teen pop crap.

Boo to you Houston. Boo. Corporate greed once again wins over the general audience.
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Would that be the general audience that has made KSBJ one of the most successful non-NPR non-coms in the nation? Was KHJK pulling a 12+ 5.3 before Arbitron kicked the non-subscribers out of the public figures? Was it even doing well in its target demo? I don't think so. Why should Cumulus keep a format on that relatively few people were listening to?
 
Sounds like 106.9 when they played mostly 80s rock & pop
 
This is the second deal between Cumulus & EMF. Last week, they traded one of their extra Nashville stations to EMF (they were over the limit), and it may also run Air1. EMF may be the only radio company with enough cash to pay real dollars for radio stations now.
 
Marc Jeffries - Arbitron's ratings are a crock these days. Most people don't have time to fill out diaries or carry a PPM meter with them. If the truth came out about what people really do listen to these days, it wouldn't reflect the ratings. Arbitron's catches the lowest common denominator. If I was an advertiser going after anyone with money, I wouldn't advertise on commercial radio.
 
this sucks! variety radio is gone from Houston airwaves.
back to full time XM in the car, work and at home. :'(
 
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