KBLZ:"#1 Hit Music Station"?...

[bucwhyl]

What the hell?... Is The Blaze no longer hip hop?

 

[mmnassour]

The website says "relaunching soon". What are they playing now?

 

[Lazy J]

"The Blaze" -vs- "The Breeze"

One Format... Two Owners... Four Frequencies...????

 

[billyg]

"The Blaze" -vs- "The Breeze"

One Format... Two Owners... Four Frequencies...????

It's crazy to have all those sticks, "whatever it takes" to cover the Tyler-Longview market. And the Breeze should have been renamed after they flipped it from AC to CHR two years ago.

It may be just a re-imaging (to get white advertisers) or a DJ shuffle, but it looks like the Blaze could be moving from Hip-Hop-R&B to a Rhythmic hits format to battle the Breeze's dance-pop CHR. That could backfire if the black community thinks the Blaze has become "too white". I thought it was strange that they were playing Katy Perry's "ET" though it has Kanye West.

The Breeze is one of the most upbeat CHR's I've heard in a long time and the staff finally sounds settled in and conformable with the format.

 

[old_skuel]

The Blaze has been using "#1 Hit Music Station" for about a year now. Why is this big news? Obviously a new website is in the works, but that seems like the only thing in the works at the Blaze.

 

[600kogo]

Well the GM there at Reynolds obviously has flushed 99.3, now she is going to screw up The Blaze that DID have ratings, and did make money!! Cant have either of those Reynolds properties making money!! Maybe shes flushing them to get Ken Reynolds desperate so that he sells to her or her group of investors REAL CHEAP! Sounds like someone who was a sales person would do to line their wallet?

 

[Al Bedogone]

99.3 is anything but dead. Listen to the station. It's now the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network affiliate for the market.

 

[gbranch]

Al, I agree with you. Getting the Cowboys affiliation is a major coup. How in the world did Gleiser let that one slip away? Add Cowboys football to the fact that 92.1 will be switching to ESPN Radio come September will place 99.3 as the only non-sports talk FM in the market. The AM band is dying - in the next 10 years most talk radio will migrate over to FM and AM will either be completely gone or relegated to niche or ethnic programming. Many people under 40 don't even know that the AM band exists, except for the fact that their car radio has an AM button on it and pushing it makes their radio sound awful.

I listen to 99.3 more than 92.1 as I enjoy Roger Gray and George Noury on Coast to Coast.

 

[billyg]

The AM band is dying - in the next 10 years most talk radio will migrate over to FM and AM will either be completely gone or relegated to niche or ethnic programming. Many people under 40 don't even know that the AM band exists, except for the fact that their car radio has an AM button on it and pushing it makes their radio sound awful.

I've been waiting to AM radio to die for 30+ years after FM took over and most of the great Top 40 stations died in the early 80's. But it keeps hanging on. I'm still amazed owners in the DFW market are still spending money upgrading AM stations just for brokered or ethnic programming.

AM radio can sound decent, but most new radios have lousy digital tuners with poor sensitivity and rolled off frequencies.

 

[600kogo]

99.3 got the cowboys affiliation by paying WAY too much for it, that is how Gleiser lost them. 99.3 with bad sales threw a ton of money at the cowboys to make one last stand in the talk arena.