KIOX changes calls

[jras20]

KIOX is now KNTE, kind of strange to get use to that. I have not listened to them in so long I didnt even know they changed calls

 

[Mediafrog+]

KIOX is now KNTE, kind of strange to get use to that. I have not listened to them in so long I didnt even know they changed calls

Thread on the Houston board that discussed this. Rare for a Liberman station to change calls.

 

[oldjohnny]

KIOX is now KNTE, kind of strange to get use to that. I have not listened to them in so long I didnt even know they changed calls

The only other time I remeber them change call letters was for KHJ, and they really pushed for these calls, like really pushed for it. I guess they needed a brake from all the work they needed from KHJ ;D

 

[CW]

KIOX is now KNTE, kind of strange to get use to that. I have not listened to them in so long I didnt even know they changed calls

The only other time I remeber them change call letters was for KHJ, and they really pushed for these calls, like really pushed for it. I guess they needed a brake from all the work they needed from KHJ ;D

and asking ofr KHJ back was a sham...they had changed to KKHJ but then Liberman told the FCC KK in spanish is offensive (SO???? This is the United States, not Spain or Mexico)....and thus they should be allowed to return to the KHJ calls...going back to the legendary BOSS call is a slap in the face of all the famous folks who worked there under the BOSS days...but then Liberman is a slap in the face of radio and the American way..

 

[mrtexmex2007]

KIOX is now KNTE, kind of strange to get use to that. I have not listened to them in so long I didnt even know they changed calls

The only other time I remeber them change call letters was for KHJ, and they really pushed for these calls, like really pushed for it. I guess they needed a brake from all the work they needed from KHJ ;D

and asking ofr KHJ back was a sham...they had changed to KKHJ but then Liberman told the FCC KK in spanish is offensive (SO???? This is the United States, not Spain or Mexico)....and thus they should be allowed to return to the KHJ calls...going back to the legendary BOSS call is a slap in the face of all the famous folks who worked there under the BOSS days...but then Liberman is a slap in the face of radio and the American way..

So this is America and?? What difference does it make? KK sounds like what people do in the restroom. Number 2!!! PUPU how ever you want to call it.

 

[oldjohnny]

KIOX is now KNTE, kind of strange to get use to that. I have not listened to them in so long I didnt even know they changed calls

The only other time I remeber them change call letters was for KHJ, and they really pushed for these calls, like really pushed for it. I guess they needed a brake from all the work they needed from KHJ ;D

and asking ofr KHJ back was a sham...they had changed to KKHJ but then Liberman told the FCC KK in spanish is offensive (SO???? This is the United States, not Spain or Mexico)....and thus they should be allowed to return to the KHJ calls...going back to the legendary BOSS call is a slap in the face of all the famous folks who worked there under the BOSS days...but then Liberman is a slap in the face of radio and the American way..

So this is America and?? What difference does it make? KK sounds like what people do in the restroom. Number 2!!! PUPU how ever you want to call it.

Yeah, but using that excuse was a cheap way of getting the legendary calls back. No one is silly enough to make the comparison to fescies and KKHJ. You'd have to be really ignorant to be offended by that.

LBI is in many ways a big disappoinment to radio and the U.S. How do they dare put a big "scratch" over "California" and replace it with "Mexico". Just a slap to all the men and women who are overseas.

Today, there are still some people calling it Los Angeles, Mexico. Geez people, if you are going to work here in this country, the very least you could do is show it some respect and stop acting like uncivilized people. If Mexico is so great, then go back. Otherwise, call it Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. I understand there is some love to the "motherland", but LBI took this thing too far.

Thanks a lot LBI for showing us how much more of a disappoinment ethics are to you.

 

[CW]

KIOX is now KNTE, kind of strange to get use to that. I have not listened to them in so long I didnt even know they changed calls

The only other time I remeber them change call letters was for KHJ, and they really pushed for these calls, like really pushed for it. I guess they needed a brake from all the work they needed from KHJ ;D

and asking ofr KHJ back was a sham...they had changed to KKHJ but then Liberman told the FCC KK in spanish is offensive (SO???? This is the United States, not Spain or Mexico)....and thus they should be allowed to return to the KHJ calls...going back to the legendary BOSS call is a slap in the face of all the famous folks who worked there under the BOSS days...but then Liberman is a slap in the face of radio and the American way..

So this is America and?? What difference does it make? KK sounds like what people do in the restroom. Number 2!!! PUPU how ever you want to call it.

KK sounds like two Ks...and thats it.......Tell that to KKJK and other stations that have two Ks together in their call
No, it doesnt sound like what people do in the restroom...BM or PeePee does...but not KK and not to the majority of the people in this country.

 

[Radio girl]

I heard that Henderson has already bought the KIOX calls for one of his Victoria area stations. (all of which are off air). Can anyone confirm this?

 

[jras20]

I heard that Henderson has already bought the KIOX calls for one of his Victoria area stations. (all of which are off air). Can anyone confirm this?

Looks like it is on KEZB 96.1 now acording to radio locator

 

[oldjohnny]

mhhhh, why would he want those call letters?

 

[jras20]

mhhhh, why would he want those call letters?

Maybe he wants to try to compete with KMKS??

 

[Radio girl]

Maybe...

The thing is we never positioned ourselves as KIOX. We were X97. So those calls wont help him much.

 

[davideduardo]

KIOX is now KNTE, kind of strange to get use to that. I have not listened to them in so long I didnt even know they changed calls

The only other time I remeber them change call letters was for KHJ, and they really pushed for these calls, like really pushed for it. I guess they needed a brake from all the work they needed from KHJ ;D

Liberman changed KNAC to KBUE, and then changed to KBUA and KEBN for the "twin" 94.1 facilities in the LA metro. He also changed KWIZ (AM) to KVNR (Viet Nam Radio), so he has actually changed all the calls in LA except for the TV station.

 

[oldjohnny]

what about Houston and Dallas? nothing new here. Sometimes, I wonder if he is even aware he owns stations in Texas. LBI's stations are some of the worst runned (not musically, but management) I've ever seen.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

So this is America and?? What difference does it make? KK sounds like what people do in the restroom. Number 2!!! PUPU how ever you want to call it.

Not to me - sounds like a cultural idiom (or idiocy) to me. Somebody should tell the good folks at KKLF that their call letters sound like the bathroom to Hispanics. I am sure there are many other stations in the US that begin with "KK". Probably some that begin with "KKK" as well. I even remember a "quad K" in Midland growing up. I guess it is double pupu.

 

[davideduardo]

Not to me - sounds like a cultural idiom (or idiocy) to me. Somebody should tell the good folks at KKLF that their call letters sound like the bathroom to Hispanics. I am sure there are many other stations in the US that begin with "KK". Probably some that begin with "KKK" as well. I even remember a "quad K" in Midland growing up. I guess it is double pupu.

The case with KKHJ in LA was somewhat different... KKLF does not say "kah-kah-ellay-effay" but Kay kay-elle-eff for its use of the calls; KKHJ was a Spanish language station in a market where over a third of the total population is Spanish speaking. Liberman asked the FCC to be able to revert to the old three letter calls, and they were granted the request.

Of coures, KKHJ never actually said the calls in Spanish... the ID was in English, and the station never used calls as an identifier. So the argument was false, but the pretext was correct.

 

[CW]

what about Houston and Dallas? nothing new here. Sometimes, I wonder if he is even aware he owns stations in Texas. LBI's stations are some of the worst runned (not musically, but management) I've ever seen.

Lenard (And Jose "papa") micro manage to the Nth degree.....Lenard flies in from LA EVERY week to Houston...that and his former GM in Houston (I think he is in Dallas now?) Winter Horton....more like Winter WHOREton..doesnt know a thing about broadcasting and admitted to a former staff member he was just there to collect 20million then retire....
Well, Lenard, you get what you paid for......(the current GM in Houston at least has radio sales experience...PLUS is a Texan to boot..I heard his PC got set to play the fight song of A&M once on boot up...but he is a Longhorn fan, where his daughters graduated from, and he took it in good humor...Lenard or Winter would have screamed bloody murder

 

[ChuckTiller]

mhhhh, why would he want those call letters?

That's a big 10-4. 1270 KIOX was the 2nd station I worked in my career. For me, it meant a time of continuing bounced paychecks in addition to one of the hardest set of calls to announce on the air. We had a station manager who wanted to call it "Key Ox" country. Then he thought he wanted it to be "Kye Ox" country (as in rye). Finally, we settled on what it was, 12-70 K-I-O-X. The next three stations for me started with K-I, but were far easier to say on the air, KIKR, KIKN, and KIKK.

KIOX? They can have 'em!

 

[Holstead]

Is 1270 still on the air?

 

[ChuckTiller]

No. I think it was deleted from the assignments. When I was there, we operated on a temporary permit which was issued in the late 60's, it remained on that temp up until it's demise as KFCC, (another set of dumb calls. What was the FCC thinking when they issued those letters?)