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Kevin Turner of the Eagle 97.1 in the Dallas Morning News...with a very old sign in the background

TexasTom

TexasTom

The Dallas Morning News has an article today on homebuyers being hit my higher mortgage rates. The article uses Kevin Turner of KEGL as an example of someone struggling to buy a home....but it wasn't the content of the article that I noticed as much as the sign in the background (to Kevin's right). Yes, it says "all hit 97.1 KEGL, The Eagle". My first thought was that maybe they were using an old picture -- but considering that they haven't used that slogan in roughly 30 years, I can't imagine it being that old.

Is it maybe time for them to update that sign?

For those who are interested, here is the article (I don't know if it is paywalled).
DMN 5-13-2022 All Hit Eagle.PNG
 
Spoiler: Many radio people have been working remotely from home studios the past two+ years and continue to do. That looks like a home studio especially as that is not the color scheme of iHeart's standard setup nor a the style of mic or arms you'd see in use there.
 
i bet this sign was installed in the studio during the late Russ Martin's time at the station and they kept it as a memorial of Russ & The Eagle's history, as The Treehouse (FKA The Russ Martin Show) continues celebrating the station's pop rock past by playing old 80s era Eagle bumpers at the start and end of their show every day as Russ as a huge part of The Eagle celebrating it's past/history as he too would time to time play Eagle bumpers from the 1980s or old clips from his 80s days at The Eagle as he was one of the 80s era Eagle jocks that worked in the top 40/pop/rock incarnation of the 1980s, the 1992-2004 incarnation of the station as hard rock/metal (with him going to mornings after then owner Nationwide Insurance ended the DFW syndication of Howard Stern forcing us to not hear him again in the market until Infinity Broadcasting/Viacom made a new deal with Howard Stern in late 2000 which went into effect in 2001 thus bringing him to 105.3 a year after it flipped from "Young Country" to "The Talk That Rocks Texas/Live 105.3", and leaving in 2000 to 105.3 as well, as 105.3 became the home of The Eagle's 2 most successful morning shows in the 1990s) and the 2007-present incarnation of the station (which he was there from 2010 to his untimely death last year from from his health issues that surfaced after the December 2015 home invasion in his home).
 
Thanks for a couple of reasonable explanations for that sign.

It was a flashback to see that sign, as I did listen to them off and on during the CHR incarnation and I still remember the fierce battle between them and Y-95 for several years. A battle that KEGL ultimately won, but a victory that turned out to be a pyrrhic victory, since KEGL abandoned the CHR format less than a year after "winning" after Y-95 (also briefly "Power 95" and just "FM 95") flipped to oldies.
 
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