KFXR Dallas, the Most Unusual iHeart Talk Station

[Gregg.]

KFXR 1190 has to be the most unusual talk station in the iHeart Network. It has no access to the three most popular shows owned by its parent company's syndication arm, Premiere Networks. So Sean Hannity is heard on Salem's KSKY 660. Glenn Beck and Coast to Coast AM both air on Cumulus' KLIF 570. And for some reason, it doesn't air the other two weekday Premiere Network shows either, Clay Travis & Buck Sexton (the Limbaugh successors) or Jesse Kelly (the Premiere evening offering).

It doesn't even run the weekend iHeart/Premiere Network shows, "At Home with Gary Sullivan," "In the Garden with Ron Wilson," "The Tech Guy Leo Laporte," "Bill Handel on The Law" or "Somewhere in Time with Art Bell." Why aren't these weekend shows or Jesse Kelly or Travis & Sexton getting cleared in Market #5 when iHeart owns a talk station in Dallas?

Instead, it takes syndicated shows from other providers, such as Michael Berry, Free Talk Live, Dana Loesch and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. And it runs a lot of brokered shows.

 

[gr8oldies]

WBAP (Cumulus) has Cumulus's big shows, such as Bongino, Levin and Levin, plus a lot of local shows. Looks like KFXR only has leftovers to pick from/

 

[DFWTX]

As post 2 says, Iheart doesn’t really have tons of shows to pick from. Plus, I bet iHeart makes more money with those brokered shows than they would airing their own.
Also, with KFXR being a broker talk station, why not initiate a deal with iHeart? I hear 10:25 to 11:00 AM needs some thing to air on Sundays

 

[Gregg.]

In Dallas, these are the talk stations...

570 KLIF, owned by Cumulus

660 KSKY, owned by Salem

820 WBAP, owned by Cumulus

1080 KRLD, owned by Audacy, All-News on weekdays, non-political talk nights, brokered and specialty programs on weekends.

1160 KBDT, owned by USA Radio Network but being sold for a Vietnamese format

1190 KFXR, owned by iHeart

 

[BBontheRadio]

KFXR 1190 has to be the most unusual talk station in the iHeart Network. It has no access to the three most popular shows owned by its parent company's syndication arm, Premiere Networks. So Sean Hannity is heard on Salem's KSKY 660.

Hannity is on 570 KLIF.

ON AIR SCHEDULE

Monday-Friday 5a – 9a – DFWs Morning News with Clayton Neville & Sybil Summers 9a – 12n – Brian Kilmeade 12n – 3p – Markley, Van Camp, & Robbins 3p – 7p – Sean Hannity 7p – 9p – Fox Across America with Jimmy Faila 9p – 12a – America at Night - Rich Valdes 12a – 5a – “Coast to

www.klif.com

 

[neosolbrudda]

Since they killed the Urban Gospel on 970, I wish iHeart would just put it on 1190. They run the "Hallelujah" format in so many other markets, why not do it here? Especially with who resides here.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Since they killed the Urban Gospel on 970, I wish iHeart would just put it on 1190. They run the "Hallelujah" format in so many other markets, why not do it here?

20+ years ago (then owner) Radio One had a plan for Urban Gospel on 1190 under the KJOI call, but this never came to fruition. Would have been the perfect format for the frequency.

 

[neosolbrudda]

20+ years ago (then owner) Radio One had a plan for Urban Gospel on 1190 under the KJOI call, but this never came to fruition. Would have been the perfect format for the frequency.

I remember that like it was yesterday. As a matter of fact, I visited the studios at that time, and seen the setup they had for 1190. George Laughlin was GM back then.

 

[Gregg.]

iHeart owns three AM stations in the Dallas market.

--970 KHVN Fort Worth...Black Information Network

--1190 KFXR Dallas...Talk Radio

--1630 KKGM Fort Worth...Black Information Network

I don't understand why two AM stations in Fort Worth are both airing BIN, along with KHVN's translator at 95.3 FM. Maybe 1630 should air Urban Gospel? Does BIN need two AM signals plus an FM translator?

And isn't 1040 KGGR Dallas carrying an Urban Gospel format? Of course, it's only a daytimer with a 3,300 watt signal.

And I still don't understand why iHeart has a Talk Radio station that doesn't carry two of the iHeart/Premiere Networks talk shows, Travis & Sexton and Jesse Kelly on weekdays or any of Premiere's weekend shows. All of those sponsors are not having their spots heard in Market #5.

 

[gr8oldies]

Aren't Travis and Sexton Taken? Jesse "everybody but me is a Communist" Kelly I don't know about

 

[salemjedi54]

iHeart owns three AM stations in the Dallas market.

--970 KHVN Fort Worth...Black Information Network

--1190 KFXR Dallas...Talk Radio

--1630 KKGM Fort Worth...Black Information Network

I don't understand why two AM stations in Fort Worth are both airing BIN, along with KHVN's translator at 95.3 FM. Maybe 1630 should air Urban Gospel? Does BIN need two AM signals plus an FM translator?

And isn't 1040 KGGR Dallas carrying an Urban Gospel format? Of course, it's only a daytimer with a 3,300 watt signal.

And I still don't understand why iHeart has a Talk Radio station that doesn't carry two of the iHeart/Premiere Networks talk shows, Travis & Sexton and Jesse Kelly on weekdays or any of Premiere's weekend shows. All of those sponsors are not having their spots heard in Market #5.

iHeart bought 970/1630 to give the BIN a D/FW presence. They never intended either of those stations to stay Black Gospel. If they did then they never would have bought the stations. The night time Premiere shows would not work on 1190 because of the low power it has at night. So Mark Levin and Coast to Coast AM are doing just fine on WBAP and KLIF. As for Travis and Sexton, that is a different story. But who knows.