From K-Hits to The Eagle...

[stan]

Other the our beloved Colonel St. James, the Arrow has nothing worth listening to.

 

[schmave]

Other the our beloved Colonel St. James, the Arrow has nothing worth listening to.

I quite agree with that. He and Maureen are the only two personalities there I really like; Kelly Ryan and Steve Fixx are all right but nothing too special. Their playlist has grown far too stale and their level of talent took a major hit when Jennifer Tyler was let go. Heck, it seems like 107.5 is the next stop when people leave the Arrow.
I used to love to listen to the Arrow before I moved here. Now that I can predict with 70-80 percent accuracy the song that will be played when a band is teased, the fun is gone.

 

[mr.ric]

I think the rest of the Arrow's listeners can now safely move down the dial to the Eagle. CC will pull the plug on the Arrow in 6 months, plus I predict that Cox will flip the Point to something different in the near future as 107.5 takes more of its playlist.

That's what i've been saying. You know, Cox San Antonio recently flipped their urban "Power" to fm talk. Could there be a possibility that Houston would be the new home for "Power"???

 

[aunti-terrestrial]

I still think this:

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=123231.msg1000083#msg1000083

 

[DToTheJ]

music choices are odd....Corey Hart, Eurythmics with Eagles, ZZ Top, Aerosmith.
pushing the fewer commercial angle that 93Q did against KILT. is this the typical Cox formula for radio wars?

Are they also using the "50 minutes of music every hour" tagline, as I've heard on other Cox stations, from rock to country?

 

[piggy]

music choices are odd....Corey Hart, Eurythmics with Eagles, ZZ Top, Aerosmith.
pushing the fewer commercial angle that 93Q did against KILT. is this the typical Cox formula for radio wars?

Are they also using the "50 minutes of music every hour" tagline, as I've heard on other Cox stations, from rock to country?

52 minutes of music every hour, and calling out Arrow by name for its heavy commercial load... just like what 93Q did to take down KILT. This will be fun to watch.

 

[aunti-terrestrial]

I would not look for the Arrow to go away anytime soon. The billing that Clear Channel makes from the station is extremely large. And word out of the CC building is that after 2 days of Eagle being on the air, they are not worried at all about 1075.


CC will spend money on marketing and promotion to ensure that that the Arrow does not lose ratings. 93.7 has actually been doing very well in the latest trends.

rgm

I wouldn't necessarily take cues from that. Remember, the company debt is in the billions. It's not how much you bill, but how much debt can be reduced, billing percentage-wise over the cost it takes to run the cluster. I suspect that the Arrow is ripe for some of that Premium Choice program packaging that's being "offered" to Bain & Lee stations these days. I'm not predicting that the Classic Rock format or the brand moniker are going anywhere, but, following the satellite model, CC's put its money on national talent: movie celebrities, Idol judges, ex-drummers from core rock bands. Paying 20 people to offer 100 shows from one studio for all the various formats makes more sense, from the standpoint of how to reduce companywide operating costs. I find it abhorrant (especially given that unprotected jobs in right-to-work-states are given to out-of-state SAG union members), but that's what I expect will come forth from the 93.7 dial position in the future.

As for talk in the 2000 WLS hallways, I wouldn't necessarily base my forecast that, either. Nobody's ever told, "Worry!" Nobody ever admits, "We're soiling ourselves over here!" Instead, they're told, "You're still the only game in town. The other guys will try and fail, because we have something better." It only makes sense to minimize any potential impact a future competitor might have on your morale. That's just what people do. I'll be crossing my fingers for a few folks in the building, but this time next year, it may well be a much more "streamlined" workplace.

Ha, I just declared today "National Air-Quote Day."

 

[KOL]

Enjoy your new 107-5 The Eagle... Cox 'cookie cutter' radio at its finest. Here in Tampa we're celebrating the 7th year of the 'New' 107-3 The Eagle and the 'NEW' 101.5 The Point. ;D It bills well inspite of the heavy repetition and the ponderous reading of the 3X5 cards by the few personalities that are still lucky to be employed at each station.

 

[piggy]

I wouldn't necessarily take cues from that. Remember, the company debt is in the billions. It's not how much you bill, but how much debt can be reduced, billing percentage-wise over the cost it takes to run the cluster. I suspect that the Arrow is ripe for some of that Premium Choice program packaging that's being "offered" to Bain & Lee stations these days. I'm not predicting that the Classic Rock format or the brand moniker are going anywhere, but, following the satellite model, CC's put its money on national talent: movie celebrities, Idol judges, ex-drummers from core rock bands.

"Premium Choice" - is that a radio format or a brand of cat food?

I've already heard Premium Choice on KKRW on the weekends. It sounds terrible. You can pick it out when the jock never mentions the station's name during the break and only talks about artists or movies that just opened.

The vultures are circling Clear Channel right now. The company is in serious trouble. When the lenders are trying to make you default so they can take you over, I'd say that the company is more worried about what their banks will do to them than what their competitors will do.

 

[stan]

When Rush Limbaugh is worried about the future of Clear Channel (his distributor's owner), I think this speaks to what is happening to their stations as well. Premium Choice may be a cat food brand, or it may be the end of CC as we know it. I figure CC's stations will all be automated in the near future with Premium Choice on every one of them - even KTRH.

As for the article about the vultures and CC, those same crooks (Apollo Management, Credit Suisse) are the subject of lawsuits with other companies due to their shady dealings. CC should screw them.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

One aspect of this that hasn't been discussed ----

As a recent transplantee from Dallas, when I hear that a station is "The Eagle", I associate that identity with KEGL, DFW's legacy rock station. 107.5 is NOT anything like "The Eagle" from DFW.

I'm enjoying real oldies on 92.5, which is surprisingly strong over parts of NW Houston. If I had streaming in the car, I would probably check out some of the suggestions here for streams. But until that technology exists in the car reliably, streams do me no good. Satellite has some specialty oldies stations by decade.

 

[mrh1960]

One aspect of this that hasn't been discussed ----

As a recent transplantee from Dallas, when I hear that a station is "The Eagle", I associate that identity with KEGL, DFW's legacy rock station. 107.5 is NOT anything like "The Eagle" from DFW.

Funny you should mention this...when I picked up that K-HITS was now "The Eagle"...KEGL was the first thing that I thought of...and my hopes were that they would be similiar...but stations like that do not exist anymore. Wasn't 97.1 "Z-97" before it was "The Eagle"...I recall "Z-97" being a pretty good Top 40 station at that time...

 

[piggy]

One aspect of this that hasn't been discussed ----

As a recent transplantee from Dallas, when I hear that a station is "The Eagle", I associate that identity with KEGL, DFW's legacy rock station. 107.5 is NOT anything like "The Eagle" from DFW.

Funny you should mention this...when I picked up that K-HITS was now "The Eagle"...KEGL was the first thing that I thought of...and my hopes were that they would be similiar...but stations like that do not exist anymore. Wasn't 97.1 "Z-97" before it was "The Eagle"...I recall "Z-97" being a pretty good Top 40 station at that time...

When I think of Dallas I just think of bad hair and lots of Aqua Net. But I never heard KEGL... by the time I got to Texas it was en espanol.

 

[LibertyNT]

Before 97.1 was the Eagle it was FM 97. And Before That Kwixy 97.
97.1 is once again the Eagle. 97.1 The Eagle was originally a CHR station in the 80's.

 

[cowboybud]

One aspect of this that hasn't been discussed ----

As a recent transplantee from Dallas, when I hear that a station is "The Eagle", I associate that identity with KEGL, DFW's legacy rock station. 107.5 is NOT anything like "The Eagle" from DFW.

Funny you should mention this...when I picked up that K-HITS was now "The Eagle"...KEGL was the first thing that I thought of...and my hopes were that they would be similiar...but stations like that do not exist anymore. Wasn't 97.1 "Z-97" before it was "The Eagle"...I recall "Z-97" being a pretty good Top 40 station at that time...

According to knus99.com:
97.1
1959-1969 - KFJZ, Classical/Jazz
1969-1976 - KWXI, Oldies/MOR
1976-1981 - KFJZ(Z-97), Top 40
1981-present - KEGL
81-92 "Eagle 97", "The Eagle", Top 40
92-04 "97.1 The Eagle", Active Rock
04-05 "Sunny 99.1", Light AC
05-07 "La Preciosa", Spanish
07-present "97.1 The Eagle", Active Rock

 

[poops]

Well... After listening for a week, I'll have to stick with my earlier post and say "not impressed". Sorry Cox, but from this listener's point of view... 2 thumbs down.

poops

 

[stan]

Playing a similar playlist to the Arrow, but with fewer commercials may work. Plus Dean and Rog will hold up better than the morning ******bags on 93.7.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

According to knus99.com:
97.1
1959-1969 - KFJZ, Classical/Jazz
1969-1976 - KWXI, Oldies/MOR
1976-1981 - KFJZ(Z-97), Top 40
1981-present - KEGL
81-92 "Eagle 97", "The Eagle", Top 40
92-04 "97.1 The Eagle", Active Rock
04-05 "Sunny 99.1", Light AC
05-07 "La Preciosa", Spanish
07-present "97.1 The Eagle", Active Rock

As I recall the 81-92 phase was more rock, less top 40. So 13 years plus the present 2 years is 15 - a long time to be rock. Even in their MOR days, they were about three steps up from your run of the mill "beautiful music" format at the time, they played more like top-40 with some mature hits mixed in.

But DFW's real legacy rock station was KZEW, and we will never hear the likes of it again.

 

[poops]

Hmmmm... Checked out their website this morning and it seems that Dan Gallo has either been left off or let go. I've been listening but haven't been able to listen to his time slot at work. So Suzi has morning and mid morning?

poops

 

[aunti-terrestrial]

Suzi Facebooked this morning that she'd be on until 3p. Sad for Uncle Guido. I loved hearing his voice, although I think it was tracked.