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Austin's Beat 104.3 disappears Monday

I think they should of kept the beat, they sounded better than Hot 93.
 
Univison could have kept it a CHR but for some strange reason Univision has some sort of beef with CHR stations.


Anyways good riddence, I like Hot way better.
 
This move seems odd since Entercom just entered the market. Of course, they did just trade the newly-aquired CBS stations in Cincinnati. I wonder if they have plans for trading or selling the other stations.
 
omega said:
who do you think will be the gm or atleast the pd for this new station?
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Tim McCoy, GM of KINV, is the cluster manager. Oscar Ríos is cluster PD.

It's not a new station, it is just a change of format and change of owner.
 
Actually, I think a better question is whether this means Austin isn't part of those "non-core" radio stations Univision plans to unload after going private. I suspect Waco will go, but I'm thinking nothing in Austin or San Antonio will.
 
jras20 said:
I think they should of kept the beat, they sounded better than Hot 93.
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You got that right. I can't stand Hot 93. They don't play more new music or play a lot of ol skool Hip-Hop and R&B like the beat does. Now that the beat will go away on Monday, who else in Austin will play the songs the beat had played? Its a shame to see the beat go away not once but twice.
 
Just tuned in to 104.3 and they are already announcing their move to 104.9 FM.
The Beat sounds fine like it is, But I wonder if they will start sounding like Hot 106.1 in Laredo. That station is very good and has a great variety of Music unlike most Hip-Hop Stations.
 
-juan- said:
Just tuned in to 104.3 and they are already announcing their move to 104.9 FM.
The Beat sounds fine like it is, But I wonder if they will start sounding like Hot 106.1 in Laredo. That station is very good and has a great variety of Music unlike most Hip-Hop Stations.
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I heard them say it when they were broadcasting live from Club Paradox. They said that they will start the Beat 104.9 at 2pm this Saturday. I also think that the Hip-Hop and R&B format should have move to a better radio tower or stay where they at because the 104.9 signal is a lot weaker and smaller than the 104.3 signal. On radio-locator.com the signal is basically targeting South Austin instead of Austin as a whole and other surrounding areas like Georgetown, Bastrop, Killeen, etc. I think they should expand the 104.9 signal all over Austin, the suburbs, and other places like Bastrop, Killeen/Fort Hood areas like 104.3 has. When they switch to 104.9, a lot of people either won't hear the radui station and the signal will be to weak to catch on.
 
Are they going to move over to the digital 104.9's tower?
 
Yes they are. They are shaking it up a bit here. Digital 104.9 will move over to KKLB 92.5. La Lupe will stop simulcasting in 92.5 and stay at 1560 AM. 104.3 will get Que Buena and (Likely) Piolin.
 
-juan- said:
Yes they are. They are shaking it up a bit here. Digital 104.9 will move over to KKLB 92.5. La Lupe will stop simulcasting in 92.5 and stay at 1560 AM. 104.3 will get Que Buena and (Likely) Piolin.
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Piolin starts Monday.
 
-juan- said:
Yes they are. They are shaking it up a bit here. Digital 104.9 will move over to KKLB 92.5. La Lupe will stop simulcasting in 92.5 and stay at 1560 AM. 104.3 will get Que Buena and (Likely) Piolin.
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The last song they play on 104.3 was Wine-O Pop My Trunk. It is now 1:33 pm and now they are playing clips of Snoop Daniels and Chico Rico over and over saying "KXBT Taylor Austin" The Beat 104.3 has moved to the all new Beat 104.9"
 
MINDonDAradio247 said:
What a bad move. They should have kept the Beat on the 104.3 dial and moved that spanish crap onto the 104.9 signal.
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I don't know why Entercom sold the station. If they say KXBT couldn't provide full market coverage to the Austin area with its limited signal reach, why they didn't file for a upgrade with the FCC to either expand their signal out more or move the tower closer to Austin and have a better market coverage? If Entercom sold KXBT because of this issue, that is just a very lame excuse. They should have thought of expanding or moving in instead of selling it to another company.
 
Blacknight said:
I don't know why Entercom sold the station. If they say KXBT couldn't provide full market coverage to the Austin area with its limited signal reach, why they didn't file for a upgrade with the FCC to either expand their signal out more or move the tower closer to Austin and have a better market coverage? If Entercom sold KXBT because of this issue, that is just a very lame excuse. They should have thought of expanding or moving in instead of selling it to another company.
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The signal appears to be locked to its current location. You CAN NOT just move a station around at your personal whim. Stations must choose their transmitter location based on not overlapping the protected contour of a co-channel station, as well as the adjacent and second adjacent channels.

If the station oculd have been moved, don't you think powerful CBS could have done it?

Most stations in the US are locked into a very narrow geographic area for transmitter selection, based on all the other staitons on the air.
 
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