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KCOH

Speaking of ownership, are there still any plans to put KCOH back on the market after the Paraclete sale fell through? Haven't heard anything. Did current ownership decide to hang on to it until the economy improves? Of course the ongoing decline of AM radio might negate any increase in sale price an upswing in the economy would bring.
 
DToTheJ said:
SOLD!
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/112486/kcoh-houston-sold
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The first Urban Contemporary radio station in Houston flips to Spanish Religious. I don't know if KCOH sold for 2.10 million, or $210,000?

That makes a total of how many Spanish Language stations in the Houston market?

Cox should flip 106.9 or 107.5 to Urban AC Majic needs a competitor, Radio One obtains a monopoly.

Do you know when the format of KCOH will flip? Or does La Promesa Foundation plan to run it's current format, which is very very doubtful. That would be like Educational Media Foundation running 104 KRBE and it's current format.
 
We should note that the sale price is only one-fourth of what was offered in the failed 2010 deal.

No surprise that a religious programmer is the purchaser. Typical fate of any AM with a mediocre signal these days.

KCOH has been pretty irrelevant in recent years, and I suspect whatever audience it still has is overwhelmingly 55+.

La Promesa runs the Guadeloupe Radio Network, which includes KATH in DFW. GRN website: http://grnonline.com/

The GRN website includes news about the KCOH sale.
 
Thus brings to an end of the four great radio stations of the 1950s and 1960s. KILT, KNUZ, KYOK and now KCOH. The others changed formats and call letters through the years, while KCOH stayed the course of music and talk since it's inception. Michael Harris, Wash Allen and Don "Sam" Samuel are the last personalities of this once great radio station.

Michael Harris has been waking up Houston for many years now and his morning show is currently the longest running morning show, where all the others have been gone, neutralized, homogenized and forced into the mediocrity of today's radio.

Wash Allen, a Houston mainstay for many many years holding down the middays with his "True Confessions." When you get tired of all of the political talk, you could could turn over to 1430 KCOH and listen to some fun talk. Sometimes, you'll shake your head and other times you'll laugh your rear off at the listeners who spill the beans on themselves and others. Wash entertains!

Don Sam has the last radio show in town, wherein, he called the shots on his own show. No cookie cutter here. He played it the way he wanted and entertained us the way he wanted. And his entertainment is good. I have enjoyed his weekly afternoon feature, "The Battles of the Stars," which included audience participation. I have a great admiration for Don and his work on the air.

Now, KCOH passes away and it's call letters added to the trash heap of great radio call letters like, KQUE (look at it now on 1230) KNUZ (now on a San Saba Texas FM) and KYOK (now on 1140 in Conroe). This is the end of the last locally owned music/talk station in Houston broadcasting from the famous 'looking glass studios' on Almeda.
 
Another Urban station gone, it just never ends. I've just ran out of tears now.

Well, at least Wash Allen still has that TV show on channel 11 on friday nights.
 
Chuck Tiller said:
Thus brings to an end of the four great radio stations of the 1950s and 1960s. KILT, KNUZ, KYOK and now KCOH.
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You have to ask yourself: Would any of these stations survived had the programming been moved to FM years ago? Are they a victim of outdated AM technology, or outdated programming? Or both?

We can wax nostalgic about the greatness of stations decades ago, but programming and delivery platforms have to be relevant in 2012 and beyond. Are today's and tomorrow's listeners going to buy what you're selling?
 
Listening to KCOH has definitely been an experience. You don’t to hear shows and radio personalities like Don Samuel and Ralph Cooper any more. They will definitely be missed. I can appreciate this more coming from Wichita where Black radio was non-existent while growing up there. It’s unfortunate that no one from the community was able to come up with the capital to save and preserve the station’s heritage. Yeah it’s an AM station, but some things ARE worth saving. I guess folks here in Houston take it for granted that there will always be an urban format around. That’s why I’m not on the bash-Radio One-bandwagon. You don’t miss your water till the well runs dry.
 
willdav713 said:
20ozwilliehoppe said:
Kilo-Cycles Over Houston.....rip
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I thought it meant K- City Of Houston.
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The call letters KCOH have been said to stand for “City of Houston,” “Call of Houston,’ ‘Classical over Houston,’ and ‘Kilo Cycles over Houston.” Call of Houston, Inc., was the name of the company, headed by William A. Smith, K.C. Hughes and Ed Hoffman. Just two and a half months after the launch of KNUZ, KCOH signed on May 5, 1948. For greater detail visit:

http://houstonradiohistory.blogspot.com/search/label/KCOH

Scroll down until you see a picture of a Houston Post article concerning the format change. As you scroll down further, you will read about KCOH beginnings. It's a good read. (Well, so is the whole site, for that matter.)

 
Chuck Tiller said:
willdav713 said:
20ozwilliehoppe said:
Kilo-Cycles Over Houston.....rip
Click to expand...

I thought it meant K- City Of Houston.
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The call letters KCOH have been said to stand for “City of Houston,” “Call of Houston,’ ‘Classical over Houston,’ and ‘Kilo Cycles over Houston.” Call of Houston, Inc., was the name of the company, headed by William A. Smith, K.C. Hughes and Ed Hoffman. Just two and a half months after the launch of KNUZ, KCOH signed on May 5, 1948. For greater detail visit:

http://houstonradiohistory.blogspot.com/search/label/KCOH

Scroll down until you see a picture of a Houston Post article concerning the format change. As you scroll down further, you will read about KCOH beginnings. It's a good read. (Well, so is the whole site, for that matter.)
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Interesting Chuck. I heard Ralph Cooper mention a couple of times night before last that KCOH opened for business in 1953, obviously incorrectly. Good article, as always from the hrhwebmaster! I really liked what one caller said to Ralph in conversation. "KEEP COOPER ON HERE" standing for KCOH. I concur.

But wait! There's more. Sheila Jackson Lee is now involved and from her interview on Ralph's show, she and several others are exploring purchase options for another AM signal that KCOH's format can be moved to. Also mentioned that her group was interested in retaining the heritage calls for the "new" station. I hope they give a call to Liberman, poste haste. Love to see KCOH resurrected @ 1230, as 1430 falls off the cliff, KQUE could be fully restored to its past glory.
 
I'd love to see KCOH live on but I really wonder why this was not attempted long ago. It would seem perhaps the interested parties might not be too interested or they might have tried to purchase KCOH. At any rate, if they are serious, I hope they do a lease/purchase so everyone on KCOH isn't out of a job and act really quickly! Once you break up all that talent, it will be difficult to bring them all back together again.
 
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