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Austin getting a Boost?

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Mediafrog+

RadioInsight article discussing the expansion of the Christian Hip-Hop Boost network to Memphis, and it mentions Austin being added in the near future. Can’t find any specifics as to what station, though I have not dug deeply. Anyone heard anything more about this?

The Boost format sounds similar to Hope Media Group’s NGEN, currently a streamer but previously also OTA.

radioinsight.com

Boost Radio Debuts In Memphis With More Markets Coming

Gateway Creative Broadcasting's Christian Hip Hop "Boost Radio" network based at 95.5 KXBS Bethalto IL/St. Louis launched on Tuesday on
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myboostnation.com

BOOST Radio is Hip Hop. Built Different | Clean & Christian Hip Hop Music.

BOOST exists to build your faith, not tear it down. Christian Hip Hop, you can move to. And DJ’s keep it fun, clean, and positive.
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Mediafrog+ said:
RadioInsight article discussing the expansion of the Christian Hip-Hop Boost network to Memphis, and it mentions Austin being added in the near future. Can’t find any specifics as to what station, though I have not dug deeply. Anyone heard anything more about this?

The Boost format sounds similar to Hope Media Group’s NGEN, currently a streamer but previously also OTA.
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I mentioned this on RadioInsight's Facebook post, but I'll repeat it here: Boost is almost certainly headed to EMF's K221GC (92.1), which has a CP to be upgraded any day now, thanks to the downgrade of KYLR Hutto. It will be very directional and limited to to Central, South, and East Austin, but will cover a lot of ears.

 

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Ryan Williams said:
I mentioned this on RadioInsight's Facebook post, but I'll repeat it here: Boost is almost certainly headed to EMF's K221GC (92.1), which has a CP to be upgraded any day now, thanks to the downgrade of KYLR Hutto. It will be very directional and limited to to Central, South, and East Austin, but will cover a lot of ears.
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You are probably correct about K221GC. On an early October trip to Austin I only heard a somewhat weak KYLR on 92.1, but I was in The Domain area which is in the deep null of the translator, which I assumed was off.

Speaking of EMF, I also found they had dropped the K-Love Classics HD subchannel from 92.5, and were running Radio Nueva Vida on the HD-2s of both 92.5 and 105.9.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
You are probably correct about K221GC. On an early October trip to Austin I only heard a somewhat weak KYLR on 92.1, but I was in The Domain area which is in the deep null of the translator, which I assumed was off.
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Unrelated, but did you also note that no work on KLBJ’s move to the KVET site has been done yet? That site is very close to The Domain.

The CP expires at the end of next November.
 
I wanna say a year or 2 ago I drove by the 92.1 translator and it was off the air
 
I wonder how well this format will work in Austin. Didn't seem to work in Victoria Ngen didn't last very long.
 
Ryan Williams said:
I mentioned this on RadioInsight's Facebook post, but I'll repeat it here: Boost is almost certainly headed to EMF's K221GC (92.1), which has a CP to be upgraded any day now, thanks to the downgrade of KYLR Hutto. It will be very directional and limited to to Central, South, and East Austin, but will cover a lot of ears.

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I'll give the same answer the PD of Boost gave to me when I asked him... "I can neither confirm nor deny". Take that for what it is....
 
jras20 said:
I wonder how well this format will work in Austin. Didn't seem to work in Victoria Ngen didn't last very long.
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NGEN was pulled from all of its OTA outlets and replaced with Vida Unida in November, 2021. It had been on the air on various FM signals for a little over a decade. It ran on Houston flagship KXNG (now KHVU) from 2016-21.

NGEN continues as a streaming/digital service, as Hope Media Group felt that was a more effective platform for reaching its target demographics.

Curious if Boost will look for a Houston outlet. With a couple of full power FMs apparently headed to Regional Mexican formats, some of the existing Hispanic targeted programmers using translators in the market might throw in the towel, with new formats taking their place.
 
Boost is now showing Austin on their website as "92.1 - 92.5 HD2", which is what we predicted as the landing spot on this forum previously.

92.1 is the upgraded K221GC translator that is not yet on the air, but will broadcast from 2244 and 360 with a directional pattern putting most of the energy towards the east.

KVLR 92.5 HD2 is currently Nueva Vida, but Nueva Vida is also preswently on KFMK HD3.

Speaking of Nueva Vida. The recently downgraded KYLR 92.1 Hutto is no longer Air1 and is now broadcasting Nueva Vida to the northern half of Williamson County.
 
Ryan Williams said:
92.1 is the upgraded K221GC translator that is not yet on the air, but will broadcast from 2244 and 360 with a directional pattern putting most of the energy towards the east.
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K-Love Inc. filed a License to Cover today for K221GC. Anyone in Austin hearing Boost Radio on 92.1?


 
Mediafrog+ said:
K-Love Inc. filed a License to Cover today for K221GC. Anyone in Austin hearing Boost Radio on 92.1?


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I checked it last week and Boost was not on the air yet, but I am currently out of pocket. I hope we can get a report soon from someone here in Central or South Austin.
 
I'm not in the Austin area, but 88.1 (at least used to) play lots of local Chrristian rap. KNLE might still be on but last I heard it had bad audio quality.
 
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Ryan Williams said:
I checked it last week and Boost was not on the air yet, but I am currently out of pocket. I hope we can get a report soon from someone here in Central or South Austin.
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Am currently in Austin, and in the Barton Creek Square Mall parking lot I am hearing Air1 on 92.1 K221GC so it has not flipped to Boost Radio yet. TOHID included KVLR and KYLR. However in the Round Rock area yesterday I was hearing Radio Nueva Vida on 92.1, presumed KYLR.

Meanwhile KNLE 88.1 has good audio, but I’ve only heard preaching at several checks, no music.
 
That's weird about the two different 92.1 stations, I'd expect them to play the same thing since same channel.



As for KNLE maybe they've changed it, I can't find much about 88.1 online.
 
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That's weird about the two different 92.1 stations, I'd expect them to play the same thing since same channel.
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The new KYLR signal dies fairly quickly once you go south into Travis County. I had decent reception of KYLR at the Round Rock outlet stores, but was poor around I-35 and Toll 45. The K221GC signal is suppressed to the north, so minimal practical overlap.

BTW I checked the HD subchannels of KVLR (Air1) and KFMK (K-Love) but none of them was running Boost Radio.
 
While on the subject of Boost Radio, I wonder if the current dustup between K-Love Inc. and Boost owner Gateway Creative Broadcasting in St. Louis regarding KDHX could delay or scuttle the launch of Boost in Austin? Lots of discussion on the STL board.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
While on the subject of Boost Radio, I wonder if the current dustup between K-Love Inc. and Boost owner Gateway Creative Broadcasting in St. Louis regarding KDHX could delay or scuttle the launch of Boost in Austin? Lots of discussion on the STL board.
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I've been wondering about that too since the news about Gateway making a counter bid for KDHX. Kind of makes sense that K-Love might hit the breaks on an additional expansion for the time being.

There is no point in having Air1 on both the 92.1 translator and the full power 92.5.
 
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Meanwhile KNLE 88.1 has good audio, but I’ve only heard preaching at several checks, no music.
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I'm curious now, Are they airing IDs and announcements for donations, and who's preaching?

They did submit something to the FCC in late 2023 that seems to be an address change. The FCCData.org still shows the old one, though. Is that an FCCData error?

The letter submitted in 2023 has the following interesting paragraph at the bottom, think it refers to tower lights.
"All lighting shall burn continuously or shall be controlled by a lightsensitive device adjusted so that the lights will be turned on at anorth sky light intensity level of about 35 foot candles and turned of f at a north sky light intensity level of about 58 foot candles."


Oh yeah and https://knle.org still says "The all new candle88.com is coming soon" like it did 10 years ago, candle88.com is their old domain but nobody updated the website since it moved... Strange.
 


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