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Another Gospel station in the Triangle??

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Oh GAWD no!!!! Saw this today on southeasttexas.com:

New Beaumont Gospel Radio Station Looking for Positive People to Sell Broadcast Advertising

This unique commercial Gospel Music radio station serving the dynamic Beaumont-Port Arthur media market is seeking radio sales talent now. Work for a radio station that is locally-owned, pays generous commissions and is committed to spreading the Gospel through inspirational Christian music and local programs. This position requires a self-starter. Prior broadcast sales experience is preferred, but not required. There may be opportunities to move into management and earn equity in the business. Send us your resume now!
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Showed to be Cypress Creek Media...headed by former KJAC TV-4 news anchor Bob Buckalew....

Bob has mentioned on Facebook about him helping a friend start a "new" radio station a while back...so I assume they are taking over an existing signal...can't be a LPFM...so it would be 1300 (that signal could come back on the air but no studios, no STL and the transmitter building doors are about to peel away!! and given the coverage we have discussed here before, we know how poor it would cover)...or 1340...but its has transmitter issues and the tower site, though in good shape for the most part, really needs some clean up inside the fencing.

990, Martin could LMA it.....but that signal has serious issues.....and I told Bob all this months ago...The ad says Locally owned..well, that takes out 1340, 1150, 990, 105.3....and pretty much all signals except 1300 (which is not really locally owned since someone stated Bill Hill lives in Texas City and NOT in the Triangle anymore!!!)...

Guess he or his friend (who he did not mention who his friend was) would not listen...guess its time to get with him again and take a fry pan to the side of his head! I DOUBT they are LMAing KXXF......I can't see John Walton giving up control of that station but I guess for $$$ anything is possible....but have not seen any paperwork filed for any LMA, etc....

Anyone else heard anything??? Like another Gospel station would work here??? 92.5 KTFA was sold by Ralph McBride to CC because it was not cutting it and CC wanted it.....its billing MORE in a month than KTFA ever did in a year!! Any Gospel on AM will been fighting a losing battle...and I feel for the sales folks....they will not be able to sell the format....

Time to drop Bob a PM or email.....

smh
 
Perhaps a split of Cumulus's AM sports duo? I mean, it's not as if KIKR requires the KBED simulcast.
 
Unregistered said:
Perhaps a split of Cumulus's AM sports duo? I mean, it's not as if KIKR requires the KBED simulcast.
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Why does anybody still think a gospel format has mass appeal and can support advertisers? They tried in Houston and it failed miserably. Beaumont is a much smaller market. How many people will listen? A few dozen?
 
Unregistered said:
Perhaps a split of Cumulus's AM sports duo? I mean, it's not as if KIKR requires the KBED simulcast.
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True...KBED is 5KW day only....but covers further north than 1450 does...often thought KBED would have been a good candidate for an EXband allocation move...

BUT the ad posting said locally owned...KBED is not...thus I dont think it qualifies...and 1510/1150 and 1340 have been gospel before....they didnt work then......

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Crazy is doing the same thing over and over.........and expecting a different outcome at some point!!
 
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Heard back from the point of contact...he could not tell me any more...other than it will be a locally owned signal after the sale is finished....so still no idea who it is up for sale....I have not seen anything from the FCC,,,
so who will it be?? 990 and its FM xlator (that has never been on the air), 1250, 1300, 1340 or 1510 ???(not much else left!)
1250 is not a hot bed signal for Radio Maria...though its better than nothing..but RM has not sunk any money into it..other than keeping it on the air...1340 and 1300 are both dark and just sitting there..but 1300 has poor signal coverage to PA and Mid County....even into Beaumont at night...990 I understand has work going on the ground system at the tower site (got that off a friend's FB page)...so maybe?? BUT I doubt a gospel signal will do anything big as for sales...I cant see someone wanting a daytimer only station these days...

Oh well, people want to spend their money on a empty well.....its their money
 
Was scanning the AM band tonight...ran across 990 playing Christmas greetings...one female voice said "From a 990 listeners in Orange"..(no name; obviously a fake)...who the hell (no pun intended) listens to 990 in Orange anyway? On a good day it may be listenable..at night, no way these days...I have heard Mike Patton from Baton Rouge is working on the array...but given that Martin is slow to impossible to pay, I doubt it will be fixed any time soon..probably hoping the translator gets approved on 107.7 (which according to its own filing with the FCC wont cover anything with a population!)
 
There might be one person who needs to be reached, and if that is the case, whether the station lasts or not is not the point. That one person was reached. The other 99 are fine.
 
Silkie said:
There might be one person who needs to be reached, and if that is the case, whether the station lasts or not is not the point. That one person was reached. The other 99 are fine.
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The lost sheep parable applies to human beings, not radio stations. There are an unlimited number of human beings, so utilizing one of them to reach a lost person doesn't take a resource from others. Radio frequencies, however, are limited to a couple of hundred. To utilize a scarce resource to reach a single person is a waste. Better to go for mass ratings and reach the largest number possible. Gospel has no mass appeal - and the same can be said for most Christian radio. There are only a few stations that show up in ratings - those are the ones that have a chance of reaching people.
 
I am well aware of what the lost sheep parable refers to. Like I said, there might be one person (also known by some as a human being) who needs to be reached, and that one station (also known as a radio station) might be the one to reach that one person with one bit of programming, whether the radio station survives beyond that or does not.

I tend to believe that the good Lord will shake heaven and earth to win one person, if He chooses so to do.
 
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