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Houston area radio notes (update thread)
- Thread starter Mrtejano
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And this remains the same as of 6/6/2025.
Update, in case anyone cares. The guy had gone to a gas station in the morning before work. And while inside the store a guy went inside naked and started screaming. El Carita got scared and says he left running to his truck. That made the naked guy aware of him, so he was followed and hit by a rock.
It wasn’t clear if the naked guy threw the rock at him or swung at him with the rock. But Le Carita is fine now, back at work. Speedy recovery for him.
Noting that KJOZ 880 has been off the air the past week or so. The Radio Vision Latina programming is still going on the 106.1 translator.
Perhaps coincidence, but the RVL sibling Universal Church TV channel disappeared from KUBE 57.9 about the same time KJOZ went off the air. The subchannel is airing a RNN-TV loop with “stay tuned for new programming soon”. No idea if the channel is gone from the market or perhaps has moved to a LPTV I can’t receive.
Meanwhile KYOK 1140 is much weaker than usual, with degraded audio. Guessing they are on a backup transmitter.
Perhaps coincidence, but the RVL sibling Universal Church TV channel disappeared from KUBE 57.9 about the same time KJOZ went off the air. The subchannel is airing a RNN-TV loop with “stay tuned for new programming soon”. No idea if the channel is gone from the market or perhaps has moved to a LPTV I can’t receive.
Meanwhile KYOK 1140 is much weaker than usual, with degraded audio. Guessing they are on a backup transmitter.
Didn't realize they were off. It's weird cause the 2 LPFMs that actually broadcast from there are still on.
They do seem kind of weak just 11 miles away
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The former Country Legends, now K-Love Houston, is quite strong up this way, too. No sign of The Eagle, and no sign of our semi-local Blaze at 106.9, either. It's not the Houston Eagle overtaking it, instead Catholic programming is blasting in. Presumably, KOOV from the Fort Hood area.
Perhaps some fallout from the decline of The Spot: Jay Michaels Exits KHMX/KKHH & WMYX
Looks like OM Melissa Chase was shown the door too. This sounds like more of an 'on high' directive -vs- a local move. I liked Chase. Thought she was super-sharp.
Melissa Chase Exits Audacy Houston
In addition to Jay Michaels exiting as Assistant Brand Manager for Audacy's KHMX and KKHH Houston, additional cuts took place
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Perhaps it was all the complaints on here about the KHMX HD problems on certain receivers. 😀
KJOZ has now been off the air for more than two weeks. Major transmitter failure? Or has Hector pulled the plug?
He's been trying to push more juice on the signal but has been having some issues at the tower site.
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I wonder if it's the same 10kW rig that was set-up in 1985. I sure can't imagine Liberman ever replaced it, and it would've still been nearly new under Jimmy Swaggart's ownership.
Did Swaggart ever own the 880 signal? It was still Country formatted KIKR in 1985. It did start a simulcast with KJOJ-FM 103.3 in the early 1990s (with 880 flipping to the KJOJ call) after Swaggart sold 106.9 which became KJZS (the previous 106.9 religious format was simulcast on 103.3 after the demise of KGLF).
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Sold to Jimmy Swaggart in 1991, I believe. 1985 was the year KIKR moved from 900 to 880 and increased to 10kW days, which led to my question above. I figure it's likely the same, and in its 40th year of continuous service.
Well, up until 2 weeks ago, right?
It so happens that I still have my DXing notes from 1980-1984 when I lived in mid-Missouri. One note says, "KIKR, moved from 900, Conroe, TX. Call-letter ID in newscast, 5:11 pm, 11-9-84." This was likely in the window between Missouri local sunset and southeast Texas local sunset, which could be 30 minutes that time of year.
It also so happened that, just three months later, I had moved to Houston, and definitely remember that the Conroe station was at 880 then. Swaggart's KJOJ was on FM at 106.9. It was sold in 1989 for $9 million, and, according to an article in the Houston Post (8/26/1989), had been shopped around for a while. There was also a spat with Montgomery County over property tax exemptions that Swaggart settled the previous year.
You guys are much closer to the market than I am, so I didn't have much luck tracking down precisely when KIKR became KJOJ, but it looks like it was around 1991, which is consistent with what you've said.