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Air1 takes over 103.7 today at 5pm

EJM said:
JRDX said:
If anybody has requests, just send them to me. I will grab clips from yesterday in a little while.
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I don't know if anyone's yet contacted the Format Change Archive (http://formatchange.com) regarding this particular flip. You may want to let them know that you have all of this audio.
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Done, and I sent an update to Radio-Locator while I was at it.

As promised, more clips:

Third Legal ID for 103.7FM
Nine @ 9 Legal ID
Second Nine @ 9 Legal ID
Live @ 5 Legal ID

Steve Robison 6AM - 10AM, July 16, 2012 [Truncated]
Donna McKenzie 2PM - 6PM, July 16, 2012 [Truncated]

I made a separate clip just for the last time Steve spoke on 103.7, since he actually took the opportunity to say thanks to the listeners. Donna McKenzie appeared to be under the impression that she had one more day to say thanks and goodbye on the air. With how much they were still trying to create the illusion that nothing was happening (I was twisting Trevor's arm a bit down in the parking lot, just before the storms hit), it is personally disappointing, but understandable that she didn't get to say much of anything.

Sad to see this station gone.

Meanwhile, one of my DX tuners was still set to 103.7 and Air1 played the changeover again. Air1 has this show on repeat.

Back to streaming WLGE now.
 
TheBigA said:
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.
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Nope. Cumulus lost KHJK, KFNC, and two Kansas City stations when it did its prepackaged bankruptcy to shed their debt load. The lenders sold this station. Cumulus didn't do the deal.

Nashville went K Love after EMF swapped WABB in Mobile to them.

But yeah, when it comes to acquisitions, EMF is one of the few getting stuff done right now.
 
gabigley1 said:
"At 5 p.m. Tuesday, 103.7 KHJK left the Houston airwaves, leaving "Houston's Adult Alternative" without a substitute.
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All that assumes that no one will flip to take its place.
 
johndavis said:
The lenders sold this station. Cumulus didn't do the deal.
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Sort of splitting hairs, since the Dickeys basically work for the lenders. It was interesting. Citadel should have declared bankruptcy just on the former ABC stations, the radio network, or some smaller group of stations, rather than the entire company. They might still be in business today....had that been their goal.

I just thought it was interesting that EMF did these two deals with this group, and wonder how many more might happen in the future.
 
Jay C said:
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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I know what you mean. For me, it's XM in the car, and going online at home to hear what I want. I'd love to hear smooth jazz again in the Houston area.
 
This is bullshit.

I can still remember this one day. I want to say maybe it was 2009 probably 2010, and I was listening to 103.7 and I heard just the weirdest and coolest song, and I was in the car driving to my office, I was on Bellaire Blvd. at the time, right before Renwick, and I dig out my iPhone and I run Shazam and it comes up as "Sneaker Pimps" "6 Underground".

And I was like, WTF? Sneaker Pimps??? I ran it again, and there it is again, and a third time, and I still have that iPhone, even though it's deactivated and all, but you can still load Shazam and see where I tried it 3 times, and just that one song arbitrarily on that one random day opened me up to loads of new and different music.

When 106.9 The Zone debuted they too played this song. Almost daily, sometimes twice a day. I was in a depression at the the time and this was like euphoria to counter the depression. and I'd just play 106.9 all the time basically from when it started until the second it died. And when it died I just had to start my own internet station and it's still going to this day, and dollars to donuts you'll probably hear Sneaker Pimps' "6 Underground" at least once a day.

Right now it's still called "The Dump" but soon to be known as "Spin Zone Radio" which as a name breaks down a few different ways - of course a "spin" is to play a song on the air, and then we have an homage to (RIP) "The Zone". But "Spin" songs are what I would consider to be more like Sneaker Pimps and other, you know, kind of big dance/pop music hits, that I air alongside more "Zone" type songs that you would have heard on The Zone or 103.7 FM, or maybe now and then on The Buzz - in between all the screamers.

So thanks Houston Radio gods, Cumulus, Clear Channel, Cocks Cox, whatever, whoever the hell you are. You all SUCK. You are FIRED.

There's that depression creeping up on me again. Anyone with some Zoloft they don't need let me know. I lose my health insurance at the end of the month. :(
 
Now that Air 1 has ruined 103.7, I'll expect them to graciously surrender the 94.7 translator in Port Neches that is no longer necessary. I'm sure that they will help declutter the airwaves by voluntarily shutting down all these annoying translators.
 
MikeRichardson said:
...soon to be known as "Spin Zone Radio" which as a name breaks down a few different ways - of course a "spin" is to play a song on the air, and then we have an homage to (RIP) "The Zone"...
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Not a Bill O'Reilly fan? ::)
 
MikeRichardson said:
This is bullshit.

I can still remember this one day. I want to say maybe it was 2009 probably 2010, and I was listening to 103.7 and I heard just the weirdest and coolest song, and I was in the car driving to my office, I was on Bellaire Blvd. at the time, right before Renwick, and I dig out my iPhone and I run Shazam and it comes up as "Sneaker Pimps" "6 Underground".

And I was like, WTF? Sneaker Pimps??? I ran it again, and there it is again, and a third time, and I still have that iPhone, even though it's deactivated and all, but you can still load Shazam and see where I tried it 3 times, and just that one song arbitrarily on that one random day opened me up to loads of new and different music.

When 106.9 The Zone debuted they too played this song. Almost daily, sometimes twice a day. I was in a depression at the the time and this was like euphoria to counter the depression. and I'd just play 106.9 all the time basically from when it started until the second it died. And when it died I just had to start my own internet station and it's still going to this day, and dollars to donuts you'll probably hear Sneaker Pimps' "6 Underground" at least once a day.

Right now it's still called "The Dump" but soon to be known as "Spin Zone Radio" which as a name breaks down a few different ways - of course a "spin" is to play a song on the air, and then we have an homage to (RIP) "The Zone". But "Spin" songs are what I would consider to be more like Sneaker Pimps and other, you know, kind of big dance/pop music hits, that I air alongside more "Zone" type songs that you would have heard on The Zone or 103.7 FM, or maybe now and then on The Buzz - in between all the screamers.

So thanks Houston Radio gods, Cumulus, Clear Channel, Cocks Cox, whatever, whoever the hell you are. You all SUCK. You are FIRED.

There's that depression creeping up on me again. Anyone with some Zoloft they don't need let me know. I lose my health insurance at the end of the month. :(
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of course you could have bought a Insignia HD Portable Radio hooked it up to the PC Soundcare via 3.5mm cable, downloaded StepVoice Recorder and recorded up to 18 hours on a single Mp3 file, then load another instance of StepVoice Recorder when it got close to the 18 hour mark hit record on the other instance and close the other file out. I am doing that right now, with 98.9, my goal is to have 1 month full of tunes from that station. I wonder if such stuff like this is in Guinness?
 
stan said:
Now that Air 1 has ruined 103.7, I'll expect them to graciously surrender the 94.7 translator in Port Neches that is no longer necessary. I'm sure that they will help declutter the airwaves by voluntarily shutting down all these annoying translators.
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Stan, I hope they turn them off too!
 
willdav713 said:
of course you could have bought a Insignia HD Portable Radio hooked it up to the PC Soundcare via 3.5mm cable, downloaded StepVoice Recorder and recorded up to 18 hours on a single Mp3 file, then load another instance of StepVoice Recorder when it got close to the 18 hour mark hit record on the other instance and close the other file out. I am doing that right now, with 98.9, my goal is to have 1 month full of tunes from that station. I wonder if such stuff like this is in Guinness?
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Well I did record tons of the last hours of 106.9 The Zone that I've kept, they are from the analog FM stereo signal but they're pretty good because I'm on the 3rd floor and used a good antenna and receiver, recording using a MacBook and encoded into AAC files.
 
Wasn't it Hank Hill that said, "Can't you see you're not making Christianity better? You're just making rock n' roll worse!"
 
sdh483 said:
Wasn't it Hank Hill that said, "Can't you see you're not making Christianity better? You're just making rock n' roll worse!"
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yes it was when Bobby went to see the four score.

Anyways Houston now has

89.3
99.7
103.7
105.7
1070 AM for Religious programming, I wonder if it will hurt heritage KHCB?

It could be worse, Cox could sell 106.9 back to Salem ;D
 
willdav713 said:
Anyways Houston now has
89.3
99.7
103.7
105.7
1070 AM for Religious programming, I wonder if it will hurt heritage KHCB?
It could be worse, Cox could sell 106.9 back to Salem ;D
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There's also 88.3, 90.5, 100.7, 1360, plus all the Spanish language religious stations.
 
One of my favorite stories of old time radio was from 1924. Radio evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson had a station that drifted up and down the AM dial. It got so bad that the FRC came calling. So Sister Aimee reportedly sent a letter to then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover that said, "PLEASE ORDER YOUR MINIONS OF SATAN TO LEAVE MY STATION ALONE."
 
Mediafrog+ said:
willdav713 said:
Anyways Houston now has
89.3
99.7
103.7
105.7
1070 AM for Religious programming, I wonder if it will hurt heritage KHCB?
It could be worse, Cox could sell 106.9 back to Salem ;D
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There's also 88.3, 90.5, 100.7, 1360, plus all the Spanish language religious stations.
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you forgot KSBJ 96.9 which reaches lower edges of Houston :)
 
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