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Houston's 107-5 KLDE...

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TroyG

Is Now the All-New 107-5 K-Hits. The city of houston is waking up to a brand-new station. They're STILL playing the same good time oldies you love, BUT they have added Doug Paul as their new VO announcer, who replaces Bobby Ocean. K-Hits also emphasizes more music from the '80s & '90s, and Cox plans to turn 106.9 The Point as it will become Spirit 106.9-A CCM/Gospel station by the end of this month. It's time to shake off the misery...
 
Not according to the website:
"Welcome to Houston's NEW home for the Greatest Hits of the 60's and 70's. 107.5 The New K-HITS. Now with more songs from the 60's and 70's you've been asking us to play. 107.5 The New K-HITS has Houston's largest music library from the 60's and 70's than ever before. Click the link above to listen to 107.5 The New K-HITS on your computer at home or work. Give us a call 713-524-1075 and let us know what you think of 107.5 The New K-Hits."

Now maybe Cox will put some effort into improving The Point or morphing it into a Jack/Bob format.
 
and you know this.... how?
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He doesn't.
He also thinks K-Hits is also emphasising on the 80's and 90's, which means he hasn't even listened to the station or looked at the website.
If you check the "Another Shocker" thread, he also thinks 104 might change to religious programming.
I noticed earlier this morning the website said to check back at noon for the new website, but they've taken that down.
Won't be ready in time I guess?
I don't see why though.
Cox seems to use the same layout for all their sites.
Just change the logo and personality pages and there you go.
 
Jimmy Cinnamon Roll said:
He doesn't.
He also thinks K-Hits is also emphasising on the 80's and 90's, which means he hasn't even listened to the station or looked at the website.
If you check the "Another Shocker" thread, he also thinks 104 might change to religious programming.
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Thanks for pointing this out. You'd think people would present their opinions as "I think..." or "I wish..." versus "This is how it's going to happen."
 
If he wants religious programming, Memphis or Birmingham would be a good market. :p
 
Rudimentary website with streaming link is now up at: http://1075khits.com/

Listened for a while earlier. Still 60's-70's, but seems to have more energy in the presentation, and the playlist was pretty upbeat. As we thought, this is a renovation, not a tear-down.

Didn't hear any reference to the KLDE calls (wasn't listening when the legal ID went in.)

I have no idea what the earlier poster was talking about with the 80's-90's claim. Would be totally out of place on K-Hits. While I don't dismiss the idea that The Point might flip soon, the four decades are not going to be combined on 107.5.
 
Thought to myself K-Hits would've been a good name for a CHR/Top 40 radio station. What are they doing? Playing 1075 songs in a row from the its core decades of the 60's & 70's-back to back commercial-free? I think its time to let the music do all the talking. As far as The Point goes, I think Cox will emphasize on the '80s through the present. There's No need to flip. Finally, I think Radio-One would flip KROI from Mexican to Gospel-Perhaps by the end of the month. Gospel is very popular in southern cities like Memphis, New Orleans, or Birmingham. It MIGHT work here.
 
Turn on your radio.....they are not playing 1075 songs commercial free.
So who's flipping to religious next hour?
 
Troy Goodwin said:
Finally, I think Radio-One would flip KROI from Mexican to Gospel-Perhaps by the end of the month. Gospel is very popular in southern cities like Memphis, New Orleans, or Birmingham. It MIGHT work here.
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Some of us on this board have been advocating that for almost two years now. La Mera Mera is a failure. The only thing that might be holding up a flip on KROI is the possibility of Radio One including the station in its planned divestiture of properties running non-core formats.
 
Here's a message to jimmy cinnamon roll... It is NOT religious-It's Contemporary Christian Music ! Music that keeps our spirits raised-just like KLTY in Dallas. I think COX runs A commercial CCM station in Tulsa-Spirit 102.3; there's also a another station in Austin, That's called 102.3 The River. If COX has its own way with The Point, look for MercyME, Third Day, Steven Curtis Chapman, & Mary Mary on 106.9. that's my 2 sense...
 
Troy Goodwin said:
Here's a message to jimmy cinnamon roll... It is NOT religious-It's Contemporary Christian Music ! Music that keeps our spirits raised-just like KLTY in Dallas. I think COX runs A commercial CCM station in Tulsa-Spirit 102.3; there's also a another station in Austin, That's called 102.3 The River. If COX has its own way with The Point, look for MercyME, Third Day, Steven Curtis Chapman, & Mary Mary on 106.9. that's my 2 sense...
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Cox ruined rock 102.3 in Tulsa by switching to CCM. I suppose that station may find a following but it will always trail in the ratings from the heritage CCM station in the area. There are stations better established for this type of format such as KSBJ.
 
Troy Goodwin said:
Here's a message to jimmy cinnamon roll... It is NOT religious-It's Contemporary Christian Music ! Music that keeps our spirits raised-just like KLTY in Dallas. I think COX runs A commercial CCM station in Tulsa-Spirit 102.3; there's also a another station in Austin, That's called 102.3 The River. If COX has its own way with The Point, look for MercyME, Third Day, Steven Curtis Chapman, & Mary Mary on 106.9. that's my 2 sense...
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KSBJ has it covered. That's my two cents.
 
Poor John. Still bitter about losing his one and only job :'(
 
Troy Goodwin said:
Thought to myself K-Hits would've been a good name for a CHR/Top 40 radio station.
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Actually, there was a CHR / Top 40 station in Los Angeles in the early '80's whos call was "K-HITS 97" KHTZ. The music that they are playing on K-Hits 1075 is much better than it was when it was Oldies 107.5. I stopped listening to Paul Christy during drive time because he played the same songs everyday...and practically in the same order...and his voice is sounding very old and stale, probably because he has been around forever...give him an administrative job and let someone else do the talking...PLEASE!!!
 
Troy Goodwin said:
Here's a message to jimmy cinnamon roll... It is NOT religious-It's Contemporary Christian Music ! Music that keeps our spirits raised-just like KLTY in Dallas. I think COX runs A commercial CCM station in Tulsa-Spirit 102.3; there's also a another station in Austin, That's called 102.3 The River. If COX has its own way with The Point, look for MercyME, Third Day, Steven Curtis Chapman, & Mary Mary on 106.9. that's my 2 sense...
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Then it is DOOMED, because it will be too similar to KSBJ. The only place to go format wise in Houston with CCM is either HOT-AC like some of the WAY-FM's, or Christian rock. These are areas that KSBJ is interested in, and they have been persuing another frequency for. You can scoop them - and it would probably be doing them a favor. Their first love is inspirational / low end CCM - the clamoring of younger listeners for more upbeat music is a constant irritation to them. If somebody does it for them, the heat would be off them.
 
intx said:
Not according to the website:
"Welcome to Houston's NEW home for the Greatest Hits of the 60's and 70's. 107.5 The New K-HITS. Now with more songs from the 60's and 70's you've been asking us to play. 107.5 The New K-HITS has Houston's largest music library from the 60's and 70's than ever before. Click the link above to listen to 107.5 The New K-HITS on your computer at home or work. Give us a call 713-524-1075 and let us know what you think of 107.5 The New K-Hits."
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They would get more listeners if they fixed the darn transmitter! Affluent, upscale, prime demographic listeners in the Woodlands, Conroe, and Cypress get a crappy signal since - whatever they did to get IBOC. Probably took the cheap way out and instead of combining, put up separate bays. Stations all over the country are losing coverage and listeners when they do that. KLDE used to be reliable to Centerville, now it doesn't make it to Huntsville. That's about 60 miles of coveage lost! Now - factor in radios cheaper than a Pioneer supertuner, and I doubt any normal listener North of 1960 and West of 6 even bothers there is so much fading.
 
Troy, the last time I checked, Christianity was a religion.
 
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