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Chance Showing True Colors About New Role At KGOW?

Rice could be paying them. After all, they're 9 million dollars richer after unloading the albatross of a radio station they owned.
 
Virtually there only revenue stream..the station is a zero and I can see no logical reason for them to survive as is. We have about 3 sports stations too many for any of them to make much money and guess what? Radio is about making money. Colonel asked the right questions, there are formats crying for an outlet and formats that would generate revenue.
 
Last week, the sports director at the Fox station in SATX was asked by a radio host why Houston has four sports radio stations. Said sports director said it was due to the large population of the city. Meanwhile, New York, the biggest market of all, has just half as much (two stations). Meanwhile, Houston is the fourth largest populated city. Dallas is ninth. SATX, meanwhile, is in seventh place, which surprised me, since it's not necessarily as major a market in Texas than Dallas or Houston.
 
DToTheJ said:
Meanwhile, Houston is the fourth largest populated city. Dallas is ninth. SATX, meanwhile, is in seventh place, which surprised me, since it's not necessarily as major a market in Texas than Dallas or Houston.
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You are making a common mistake in using city sizes. Overall market size is the only thing that's important. DFW metro has more people than Houston metro.
 
DToTheJ said:
SATX, meanwhile, is in seventh place, which surprised me, since it's not necessarily as major a market in Texas than Dallas or Houston.
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Why is that so surprising to you? I'd guess it's partly because you've never been there. BTW, most people who live in San Antonio probably wouldn't prefer the acronym SATX; ask around if you ever go there (or if you go through Dallas/Fort Worth see if a lot of people still resent the term "Metroplex"). I've lived in all three markets you mentioned. Mediafrog+ is right about overall market size, but what he didn't emphasize is that the San Antonio metro has few suburbs with any sizable population and it basically all lies within Bexar County.
 
What's the latest on KGOW's nighttime upgrade? Did that ever become a reality? I can't imagine the signal travelling too far up Highway 71 with KTXZ in the way.
 
KGOW's application for night service (with 15kW) was approved in January 2009, and a license to cover was granted in January 2010.
 
Pete Pyeatt said:
What's the latest on KGOW's nighttime upgrade? Did that ever become a reality? I can't imagine the signal travelling too far up Highway 71 with KTXZ in the way.
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KGOW's night signal is tightly directional to the SE from the night site a few miles south of Hockley. Virtually nonexistent coverage elsewhere. It misses most of Montgomery County, for example.

You are right, KTXZ is very close by--the two sites are only 110 miles apart.
 
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