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...joe gomez on ktrh? possibly the worst radio newz voice i ever heard. pukey pop dj without the pipes. hooz runnin that joint?
 
Clear Channel apparently serves the Houston cluster with KLVI in Beaumont. It's getting less and less KLVI and more and more like KTRH East.

Get ready, stan. JP and Lana are coming. If CC keeps on cutting costs and staff, soon you'll just hear "KLVI-Beaumont, KTRH-Houston. News Radio 560/740. Serving all of SE Texas."

Seemed unimaginable a few years ago, but my how times have changed.
 
Its called hub and spoke - like a hub on a wheel Houston records the news and traffic for several other cities (spoke) and sends them out thru their automation system. Houston already provides traffic and news for about 30 other stations across the US. Listen to the evening traffic guy, he screws up occasionally and gives the out-cue for san antonio. It's all part of the cutbacks at smaller stations and it's just another facet to voice-tracking for other stations.
 
I think the simulcast of KTRH and KLVI could happen when Al Caldwell retires, and that will happen eventually. Think of the additional savings!
 
I would like to see a KTRH-KLVI simulcast. If that were to happen, you could hear the Astros 10th Inning Show from San Antonio to Baton Rouge.
 
Why stop at Beaumont? Hell, let's just do a six-state hub...who cares about local anyhow...the listeners can just get their news from the internet. And, by the way, when the newspapers go belly up and shut down their websites, who are the radio stations going to rely on for local reporting? For the last several years, morning news reports on music stations were based on the local rag...the stations had already canceled their AP wire service no doubt...I guess they may have to rely on the TV station websites...
 
I notice that most of the news supplied by KTRH for KLVI is Houston news. They might as well simulcast now.
 
radiobop said:
Why stop at Beaumont? Hell, let's just do a six-state hub...who cares about local anyhow...the listeners can just get their news from the internet. And, by the way, when the newspapers go belly up and shut down their websites, who are the radio stations going to rely on for local reporting? For the last several years, morning news reports on music stations were based on the local rag...the stations had already canceled their AP wire service no doubt...I guess they may have to rely on the TV station websites...
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I think a six-state hub would be a little excessive. Maybe KTRH could simulcast with KLVI to boost their signal to the east, and with KLBJ-AM to boost it to the west.

What they need to do more than anything else is simulcast on 93.7 in Houston. Dallas has WBAP-FM, New Orleans has WWL-FM, even Austin has KLBJ-FM (the translator on 99-7)...get with the times, KTRH!!
 
No, I didn't mean WOAI, I meant KLBJ. I forgot that it was Emmis, not CC, that owned KLBJ. You are right.
 
Any recent developments on KLVI becoming a simulcast of KTRH?
 
93-3TheSurge said:
Any recent developments on KLVI becoming a simulcast of KTRH?
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I think that is just speculation by some of us based on no concrete evidence. However, KLVI now uses KTRH news personnel to deliver somewhat local news during the syndicated daily shows (Limbaugh, Hannity) and the currently live morning show (Al Caldwell) will probably go on only as long as Al is still working. When he finally retires, I predict some syndicated morning show will take his place. I'd nominate Imus, but I don't think CC would ever put him on. Instead, why not simulcast KLVI with KTRH as the majority of their syndicated programming is the same. Plus, the Astros would get better coverage to the east.
 
93-3TheSurge said:
Any recent developments on KLVI becoming a simulcast of KTRH?
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I was just poking at stan, Surge. He and I have had this lengthy discussion about Beaumont stations leaving in droves over the years for Houston....er....East Houston and KLVI would just make another Beaumont property to add to the list.

Honestly, I see it as a good possibility, especially with the way things have been going in the Triangle the last few years, but as stan said, it is pure speculation on my part.
 
purpledevil said:
I was just poking at stan, Surge. He and I have had this lengthy discussion about Beaumont stations leaving in droves over the years for Houston....er....East Houston and KLVI would just make another Beaumont property to add to the list.

Honestly, I see it as a good possibility, especially with the way things have been going in the Triangle the last few years, but as stan said, it is pure speculation on my part.
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Do you know why KLVI dropped itself as an affiliate of the Astros Radio Network? I remember when I was a kid I could pull in KLVI in Baton Rouge, day or night.

Now when I visit Baton Rouge, there is no Astros affiliate, and I can't pull in KTRH.
 
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