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Freaky First Month

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Crazy the ratings share and cume remained exactly the same in 97.1‘s debut month? Did they switch in the middle of a ratings book? I did see 103.7 skyrocket
 
The ratings published today cover a period ending October 12th. So there was about a week of the new format for KEGL.
 
TheBigA said:
TTBOMK they don't have a PD yet.
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Really? That's insane. Five weeks into a format that they didn't have to launch on any specific date, and still no manager?
 
Their Facebook page is still called “97.1 the Eagle Rocks” but has the Freak logo. The majority of their posts are still about rock music. It’s a slow change.
 
Jay S said:
Their Facebook page is still called “97.1 the Eagle Rocks” but has the Freak logo. The majority of their posts are still about rock music. It’s a slow change.
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Idk, when I flipped my old station to sports from classic country, we posted sports content and changed the name of the Facebook page immediately. There weren’t posts still popping up about Hank Williams Jr
 
Jay S said:
Their Facebook page is still called “97.1 the Eagle Rocks” but has the Freak logo. The majority of their posts are still about rock music. It’s a slow change.
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If I was in charge I would have made another page for Freak. Considering The Eagle is on an HD2 and those followers most likely care more about Rock posts than what the Freak would post.
 
HTX said:
If I was in charge I would have made another page for Freak. Considering The Eagle is on an HD2 and those followers most likely care more about Rock posts than what the Freak would post.
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They should do that. They should say The Eagle is still here and online and HD2 and show them how to listen. They started a new Twitter handle for the Freak, but no new Facebook page. The Eagle stopped tweeting when they flipped, but their Twitter is still there.
 
i wonder if this flip wasn't done via decision on a regional level or local level but instead from the higher ups from the highest level in New York at IHM headquarters, this feels like someone in New York said "yeah, i think DFW needs a new Sports talk station" and saw the Eagle was tanking bad and wanted to go scorched earth with it hence the departure of The Treehouse FKA The Russ Martin Show and Don Davis, as someone in New York was in "punish the failures" mode and treated it like a football team with a winless season record of no wins.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
i wonder if this flip wasn't done via decision on a regional level or local level but instead from the higher ups from the highest level in New York at iHM headquarters, this feels like someone in New York said "yeah, i think DFW needs a new Sports talk station" and saw the Eagle was tanking bad and wanted to go scorched earth with it hence the departure of The Treehouse FKA The Russ Martin Show and Don Davis, as someone in New York was in "punish the failures" mode and treated it like a football team with a winless season record of no wins.
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In my limited experience of listening to The Freak, I sense that the talk format has a regional flavor, so I doubt that the format was iHeartMedia HQ's idea. More likely, the regional leadership came up with the idea, ran it by the HQ, and the HQ said, "Make it so."
 
The station has too much talent to struggle for long with Rhyner, Ben and Skin, and all the ex-Ticket and ex-Fan folk. Don't a few of them have the Grand Slam? (Ticket, Fan, ESPN and now Freak.)
 
Their afternoon show, The Downbeat, sounds a lot like the Treehouse without Russ Martin. Or some of the shows they used to have on KLLI back in the day. They talk a little more sports than the previously mentioned shows, but they are not really a hard-core sports station for those who want to argue statistics ad infinitum. There is no edge to it like Russ Martin or Hot Talk, but it isn't the worst I have ever heard. It is local and the advertisers are almost exactly the same as were on the Russ Martin Show.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
 
In the past few months, I have become a nearly daily listener to The Ticket. I used to work with Jeff Catlin way back before The Ticket ever existed. Whatever they do to make an engating talk format, regardless of topic, is truely remarkable. It's the mix of people, the way to talk with each other and to the audience about all things with an overall focus on local sports that makes that station great.

When I listen to The Freak, I just don't get the same vibe. There's just something off about it. I feel that way about The Fan as well. I suspect that kind of talk is geared toward someone other than me. That's fine. It has long been said that a sports talk station needs to have the play-by-play of one of the major local sports franchises. The Ticket has not needed that, but has done it with the Cowboys and Stars along with SMU sports. The Freak has it with The Mavs games. But when I tune in to The Freak, I rarely hear them talking about the Mavs or really any local sports. To me, that's a mistake. They should embrace the Mavs, talk about them a lot, along with the other local sports franchises, and reduce the guy talk.
 
tested said:
In the past few months, I have become a nearly daily listener to The Ticket. I used to work with Jeff Catlin way back before The Ticket ever existed. Whatever they do to make an engating talk format, regardless of topic, is truely remarkable. It's the mix of people, the way to talk with each other and to the audience about all things with an overall focus on local sports that makes that station great.

When I listen to The Freak, I just don't get the same vibe. There's just something off about it. I feel that way about The Fan as well. I suspect that kind of talk is geared toward someone other than me. That's fine. It has long been said that a sports talk station needs to have the play-by-play of one of the major local sports franchises. The Ticket has not needed that, but has done it with the Cowboys and Stars along with SMU sports. The Freak has it with The Mavs games. But when I tune in to The Freak, I rarely hear them talking about the Mavs or really any local sports. To me, that's a mistake. They should embrace the Mavs, talk about them a lot, along with the other local sports franchises, and reduce the guy talk.
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Why? We already have two stations doing hard-core sports talk. Do we really need three? Some of us would rather listen to guy talk. They are going after different listeners. The sports guys already have the Ticket and the Fan. If the Freak tries to be a clone of the other two, they won't survive. They have to do something different. There are a lot of us out here who used to listen to talk radio but are turned off by hard-core sports and right wing political talk. Corporate radio offers nothing else and actively tries to kill anything else.
 
TheBigA said:
Huh? Where does it say that the only radio is "corporate radio?" You exclude KERA from your list of options. They don't do sports or political talk. Nobody's tried to kill them.
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As I remember it they really did want to get ahold of that 101.1 frequency at one point.
I said that corporate radio offers nothing else. I did not mention KERA.
 
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