KEGL is stunting

[Mediafrog+]

iHeart doesn't run 24 hour sports betting stations, as far as I know. Certainly not on a full-market FM signal in a top-5 market.

BetQL is on an HD subchannel of one of the Audacy FMs in DFW, but which one escapes me at the moment.

BetQL is on a 250 watt AM daytimer in Houston (KIKK 650) as well as 24/7 via KKHH HD-3.

 

[Old Grey Coyote]

Eventually, many broadcasters will just turn in their AM licenses, especially if they have strong-performing FM stations. Once there's no viable profitable programming left to put on the medium wave band, and there's no fear that some other company will snap up the vacant frequency and make serious money off it, the stations will go dark and AM will die.

I was talking about 97.1. What are they going to do with it? They can't make talk work and they can't find the right rock mix.

Come to think of it, what do I need FM stations for? I can get Spotify in my car. The only thing I need radio for is traffic, and the best traffic station in Dallas just happens to be an AM station.

 

[CTListener]

Given that sports betting is illegal in Texas, the potential audience for the format on radio has a much lower ceiling than it does in other states, not that it's been a ratings winner anywhere yet. What it does bring the stations that run it is advertising from sports betting operations -- and again, that's not in play in Texas unless the conservative/church forces that have kept the state from legalizing sports betting so far give up the fight.

 

[Old Grey Coyote]

Given that sports betting is illegal in Texas, the potential audience for the format on radio has a much lower ceiling than it does in other states, not that it's been a ratings winner anywhere yet. What it does bring the stations that run it is advertising from sports betting operations -- and again, that's not in play in Texas unless the conservative/church forces that have kept the state from legalizing sports betting so far give up the fight.

The sports betting people haven't given up the fight yet. There is a lot of money coming in to support it. Did you know that Governor Abbot and quite a few business leaders support it?

 

[DarrenVision]

Given that sports betting is illegal in Texas, the potential audience for the format on radio has a much lower ceiling than it does in other states, not that it's been a ratings winner anywhere yet. What it does bring the stations that run it is advertising from sports betting operations -- and again, that's not in play in Texas unless the conservative/church forces that have kept the state from legalizing sports betting so far give up the fight.

Same here is in California since we saw Cumulus tried to do a major flip of KGOAM810 before the 2022 Midterm Elections. BTW Texas only has 3 casinos one in Livingston, one in El Paso, and one in Eagle Pass.

 

[davideduardo]

i was listening for a moment, and it seems they still letting the ads roll, i would have figured it would be commercial free for the first few days of the newly relaunched old format, but nope, got to get that ad dollar.

Many of us, myself included, believe that running commercial free creates a bad and high expectation that will be smashed when ads are introduced. It is vastly better to offer ads at "pioneer" rates from the get-go, and later adjust rates as ratings, hopefully, improve.

 

[CTListener]

Same here is in California since we saw Cumulus tried to do a major flip of KGOAM810 before the 2022 Midterm Elections. BTW Texas only has 3 casinos one in Livingston, one in El Paso, and one in Eagle Pass.

I didn't realize Texas had any! It doesn't even allow its horse tracks to have slot machines, which are helping keep horse racing alive in neighboring Louisiana and New Mexico. I assume the Texas casinos (private or Native American?) offer nothing but cards, dice and slots, no sports betting of any kind. Correct?

 

[DarrenVision]

I didn't realize Texas had any! It doesn't even allow its horse tracks to have slot machines, which are helping keep horse racing alive in neighboring Louisiana and New Mexico. I assume the Texas casinos (private or Native American?) offer nothing but cards, dice and slots, no sports betting of any kind. Correct?

All three are tribe owned but they have long legal battles for a long time. But it will take a miracle to bring in a casino resort or even sports betting.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office formally notified the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week that it would not appeal a lower court’s 2021 ruling that the Tribe is legally operating electronic bingo at Naskila Gaming.

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The legal fight between the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and the state of Texas over bingo-style gambling at Speaking Rock Entertainment Center is officially over afte

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[Loverofradio]

I didn't realize Texas had any! It doesn't even allow its horse tracks to have slot machines, which are helping keep horse racing alive in neighboring Louisiana and New Mexico. I assume the Texas casinos (private or Native American?) offer nothing but cards, dice and slots, no sports betting of any kind. Correct?

One visit from Gov. Greg Abbott to Bourbon Street with Louisiana Gov. Landry and he’ll quickly convince Gov. Abbott that gambling doesn’t belong in Texas/downtown Dallas 😂

 

[254dan]

33 and loving every minute of this. Songs don’t have expiration dates

thank you! just what i was thinking!

 

[101tm]

i was listening for a moment, and it seems they still letting the ads roll, i would have figured it would be commercial free for the first few days of the newly relaunched old format, but nope, got to get that ad dollar.

They probably had some pretty big advertisers for The Freak that they want to hang on to for The Eagle since both share a very similar target audience. This isn’t a flip from urban to country or vice versa.

 

[Saladressing]

The format of the new 97.1 KEGL seems to be Mainstream Rock. There's quite a bit of latitude in this format designation but no other designation seems to properly fit.

The HD2 of 97.1 now appears to be some iHeart stream. It's calling itself The Edge. It has voicetracked Djs. It's got a hard alternative format and sounds decent. An interesting development.

 

[Deleted member 76036]

The HD2 of 97.1 now appears to be some iHeart stream. It's calling itself The Edge. It has voicetracked Djs. It's got a hard alternative format and sounds decent. An interesting development.

I think it’s the same format that was on 102.1 HD2 before it flipped to “Magic”.

 

[Triple Fake Jerry]

Music radio as it existed even 20 years ago is nonexistent today. There are few "currents" or more properly, few stations that play them. All the chart action is via iTunes or other download services.

If radio charts were still the coin of the realm, Lawrence Welk would be No. 1 with a bullet.

 

[davideduardo]

Music radio as it existed even 20 years ago is nonexistent today. There are few "currents" or more properly, few stations that play them. All the chart action is via iTunes or other download services.

CHR, Hot CHR, Hot AC, Urban, Churban, Regional Mexican, Country, Latin Urban are all formats principally based on currents or currents and recurrents.

How do you reach such incorrect assumptions?

 

[TheBigA]

All the chart action is via iTunes or other download services.

FYI: iTunes was shut down in 2019.

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