KIKK 650

[DJboutit3]

What I am saying is for them it would be full time when they broadcast

 

[purpledevil]

still wouldn't make sense, DJ. A news station that's off the air at night? Or one that goes off the air during PM drive and returns to the air during AM drive throughout the winter?

Something tells me KIKK will be simulcasting a CBS FM counterpart until they can sell it. They've never made any money with it and it is the apparent red-headed stepchild of the cluster.

 

[stan]

Simulcast with FM and have a full time news station. If this were being planned, Mr. Clanton wouldn't have been given the boot.

 

[michaelshiloh]

Imagine CBS simulcasting KRLD's programming from Dallas here on KIKK. With some of the newspeople you hear on KRLD, people here might think they're listening to KTRH...

 

[fadedglory]

Wonder what might happen to that KIKK calls? Take them and park it somewhere despite it's irrelevance once that property finds a buyer?

 

[musicfan101]

Why does CBS own this station in the first place?! Kind of shocking for a big time radio player to own such a dismal signal that doesn't even broadcast the whole day.

 

[foursider]

With real radio personalities and a few good newsmen; it was a pretty good little player in it's heyday. If CBS would be willing to turn a decent crew loose with it and not expect too much out of it; they might be surprised at the result. But, you always have the suits that want more out of it than it can produce. Then, they go to tinkering with it, instead of leaving the people who know what they're doing with it alone to do real radio. You know. The fun kind. Like we used to be able to do.

Sure. It's a light bulb. But, so are a half dozen other signals in this market; and they seem to survive. All depends on your perspective, I suppose. Or who's running it.

 

[ChuckTiller]

Why does CBS own this station in the first place?! Kind of shocking for a big time radio player to own such a dismal signal that doesn't even broadcast the whole day.

They acquired it through a sale, that's how. It was package deal. When the mid-90s conglomeration mess began, KILT 610AM & 100.3FM and KIKK 650AM & 95.7FM came under the Westinghouse/Infinty/CBS umbrellas.

 

[DToTheJ]

I doubt that China Radio International would pick up a third AM, but they do like to pop up unannounced at the beginning of the month. Somebody's obviously buying the full day...

I'm surprised nobody has guessed "BizRadio" yet. ;D

 

[ChuckTiller]

I'm surprised nobody has guessed "BizRadio" yet. ;D

If that were true, Brent Clanton would stay. He would and is the perfect fit. Nobody would want to use the tainted name of BizRadio here in Houston.

 

[willdav713]

What ever they do, please not another smooth Jazz station. HD Radio is horrible choices in Houston. 2 Smooth Jazz stations already on HD.

Maybe Comedy radio?

They would be nuts to put smooth jazz on AM Radio!
However I sometimes scan the AM dial in hopes of something good, I listen to Radio Disney in San Antonio 1160 to hear a tune with high bass and midrange by I think Britney Spears hands up something and it was horrible, I couldn't imagine hearing anything that was meant for stereo on AM like Jazz.

 

[willdav713]

I just see SportsRadio 610 and Talk 650 on their website www.kikk.com
No programming listed under Talk 650.

Also on the True Oldies Channel website 2 spaces are blank under Texas (this is recent) maybe True Oldies on KIKK? http://www.trueoldieschannel.com/Article.asp?id=1517630 and scroll down to Texas noticed the spacing?

 

[Holstead]

This channel should be deleted, the tower scrapped and the land SOLD. Even in this economy, the site is probably worth 8 to 10 million-which is about what could fetch for the stick itself.

 

[LibertyNT]

True Oldies 650 Houston!

Sure it would only be a daytimer, but thats better than no Oldies at all.

 

[mrbeasley]

This channel should be deleted, the tower scrapped and the land SOLD. Even in this economy, the site is probably worth 8 to 10 million-which is about what could fetch for the stick itself.

8 to 10 million!!! I don't think the entire town of Pasadena is worth that much. It's sinking in the ground a little more each day. They don't even bother fixing the streets out there anymore. They're afraid if they do, most of the population will get homesick and go back to Mexico. Then the economy of the whole town will collapse.

 

[sdh483]

This channel should be deleted, the tower scrapped and the land SOLD. Even in this economy, the site is probably worth 8 to 10 million-which is about what could fetch for the stick itself.

8 to 10 million!!! I don't think the entire town of Pasadena is worth that much. It's sinking in the ground a little more each day. They don't even bother fixing the streets out there anymore. They're afraid if they do, most of the population will get homesick and go back to Mexico. Then the economy of the whole town will collapse.

Remember not to feed the trolls.

 

[fadedglory]

An oldies format there would be preferable to many alternatives, but it would still be tough especially considering that the station cannot broadcast at night, nor have it's PSRA and/or PSSA (if there was such a thing) reinstated there; it is known that WSM does not cover it's territory at night like it once did; on certain evenings, Spanish language programming and-or music formats can be heard on 650 whether they'd like it or otherwise......

 

[MsMusicRadio]

I may not have appreciated it at the time cause it seemed they didn't play John Denver back in 1970, but KIKK with Chuck Tiller on news and Arch Yancey in PM drive was a station that was true to it's time and place much like WABC in NYC, WLAC and WSM in Nashville, WWVA in Wheeling, and WVOK in Birmingham Alabama. Even the red KiKK bumper sticker is now a part of history. At the time, I preferred the more generic KENR 1070, but in today's world of jockless wonders like Cox Broadcasting and Clear Channel VT'ing-------------KIKK is part of a disappearing Americana.