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AllAccess Reports KRPT 92.5 is Going Talk Tomorrow

All in all 3 stations flipping within 7 days is pretty crazy.
 
Sounds like they're gonna try to sell it as part of a package deal with WOAI and The Ticket, hoping to get a little extra $$$ out of advertisers looking to buy time on news/talk stations. Won't take much, because their operating expenses are pretty low. Also interesting to see on their Facebook page that they're asking listeners what they'd like to hear on weekends ... so the Saturday and Sunday lineups are bound to evolve in the coming weeks.
 
DominiqueRadio said:
All in all 3 stations flipping within 7 days is pretty crazy.
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Dominique, do you believe an alternative station would succeed in SA?
 
93-3TheSurge said:
Dominique, do you believe an alternative station would succeed in SA?
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I honestly do. I do believe there is audience for it. KTFM dropped a lot of the rock oriented songs for a more top 40 sound. KTFM was the closest thing the alt rock fan had. KISS and 97.7 sooooooometimes play alt rock but there isn't really a place for the alt rock fan to go to that plays it 24/7 without mixing in the heavy stuff.

I think if any given station were to take a chance with it they would find almost immediate success.

My opinion.
 
Exactly. All of the northsiders (UTSA, Ft Sam, NW Vista, etc) I talk to try their best to pull in 101X, so you know if these listeners are willing to support a station with lots of static, they would support an SA alt rock station.

I think once 92-5 flips again, say around after November elections, this would be a good home for rock alternative.
 
intx said:
... interesting to see on their Facebook page that they're asking listeners what they'd like to hear on weekends... so the Saturday and Sunday lineups are bound to evolve in the coming weeks.
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Maybe they can keep the Texas country on the weekends. You know, kind of be like a talk/smooth jazz hybrid like WJFK/Washington was in the 90's.
 
93-3TheSurge said:
... 92-5 flips again, say around after November elections...
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What makes you think they won't commit to the talk format until at least 2012?
 
Signal_Faded said:
As someone outside the market this one really baffles me. So bizarre that they are taking the same talk products that just failed and putting them on an inferior signal and hoping for different results. I guess it locks up the programming and protects CC...playing defensive a bit here...but I just don't get it. What is that they say about making the same mistake twice and expecting different results?
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I've seen the numbers and I'm betting CC sees it as I do...106.7 had become the second most listened to talk station in San Antonio. Cox didn't know how or didn't care to monetize it. Plus they had an issue trying to protect KISS which has been falling on ratings hard times. Made sense for them to blow up a station that wasn't making money for them to go after ZEP and Jack. On the other hand, CC's Outlaw had been underperforming even its ownmodest expectations. Why not lock up a line up that was the numbr two talk station, and use the WOAI sales staff to sell (they must know how to sell talk because WOAI is the big billing station in town). 92.5 may not get as big a number as 1067 but its all relative, it won't take much to do better than what they were doing. X1067 may not beat ZEP or Jack, but it'll probably do better than what they were doing. So when you think about it, these moves made sense for both Cox and CC.
 
Two very good stations are


KHYI - Plano - www.khyi.com - They play anywhere from very rare country recordings (Lightcrust Doughboys, Jim Reeves, etc.) from the early days to local texas artists. It depends on who is the DJ at the time. In fact a couple of the DJs are local recording artists - Chance Cody (Spur 503) and Big Gus (Shootin Doubles). Matt Hillyer and Steve Berg (Eleven Hundred Springs) host the Wednesday night show - Country Jam. Coach Joe Avezzano (former Dallas coach and local nightclub owner) hosts the Tuesday night show.

KFWR - Ft Worth - http://www.959theranch.com - They play pretty much Texas country full time.
 
fredcantu said:
Maybe they're doing it just to park the talk shows and keep them from surfacing on a better signal in the market.
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I think you may be on to something. 92.5 is a real dog of a signal in the upscale north side of San Antonio. I have a good radio and antenna in my vehicle and 92.5 was noisy for an entire drive from the north side to downtown today.

CC has to know that they're not going to get big numbers with any format on this stick. Now it's probably just serving as a flanker for the Blowtorch.
 
Must be loads of automation and not much human oversight at KRPT. Tonight around 8:00 the station was alternating dead air with a barker channel for some radio network's satellite feed. About 40 minutes later, the station is airing a Hannity replay. The web site is inaccessible tonight, but I doubt that Hannity would be on the schedule there, since it's a mainstay on the Blowtorch.
 
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