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What's the deal with this station? It's licensed to Whitesboro, and according to Radio-Locator.com it shouldn't even be heard here, but it screws with my in-car Sirius radio. Anyone know the deal with the station on 102.5? They're ruining my satellite experience.
 
radio-locator's maps are only approximated...KMAD-FM's fringe signal generally reaches into northern Dallas. Co-channel KBRQ "102-5 the Bear" Hillsboro/Waco's fringe singal generally reaches southern Dallas and Tarrant Counties from the south.

They have some overlapping music, so it's possible you may be getting KBRQ if you are outside KMAD-FM's general coverage area.
 
KMAD is gaining a pretty good following in Northern Collin County. I know several people that think it is better classic rock than the other two stations in the area. The battery store in Plano plays it in the store. In my car, with the narrow ceramic filter mod, it is pretty reliable from LBJ North on Central, locking in solidly about Spring Creek or Legacy.

I would re-tune your Sirius FM modulator to 92.9. You only have to contend with stations in Wichita Falls, Waco, and Texarkana (I usually get a mix of them). Wichita Falls will cause problems on hills, but it is better than using a rim shot frequency like 102.5.

If you have done the narrow filter modification in your car radio - 88.3 is the one I use. No problems at all unless I go to Ft. Worth where they have a very low power 88.3.
 
Keep in mind,warm weathr is upon us, therefore distant signals will come in on freq.s that are not aloocated here. Last night Ch.8 had some serious interference coming in where I live( Rockwall) The fm was loaded with signals from Lufkin,Shreveport,OKC and Houston.
 
Bruce:

I wonder if that is fallout from KLAK. Maybe KMAD is trying to sell in McKinney/Plano since KLAK has shifted their thrust that way instead of Sherman/Denison. More people are aware of the station now.

It has a pretty good mix of music but still has a few songs too heavy in the rotation. The local commercials cam be madding at times though.
 
Hello All,
KMAD is a good rock station for north of Dallas to the Red River. KMAD should look at a KLAK/KMAD Collin County/McKinney/Sherman/Denison station. KMAD needs to put transmitter on same tower (Tom Bean, TX) as KLAK 97.5....then move the studio to McKinney with KLAK on Red Bud Dr. Both stations would do great with a lot of promotions in Collin/Grayson County and some in North Dallas area.

Dan the Man!!!
The North Texas Radio Man!!!
 
KMAD and KLAK are under the same ownership -- and those folks also own country-formatted KMKT 93.1 in Bells, TX (serving Sherman and Denison). That being the case, I would expect that the possibility of KMAD moving south would depend on how successful the move turns out to be for KLAK. KMKT would probably never be able to move south due to the presence of KDBN on 93.3 in the Dallas/Fort Worth metro area.
 
KMAD is formatted with ABC Radio Network's "Classic Rock Experience." Several of the jocks and programmers came from local stations like Q-102, KZEW and Z-Rock...so you are hearing many of the same songs and similar programming approaches that most of us came to love in the 70s and 80s on those long-defunct stations. Chaz Mixon, Frank Welch, Dave Bolt, Debbie Alcocer, etc are still alive and well there.
 
Yesterday I was getting KMAD clear as a bell in far northeast Fort Worth (south side of DFW airport). My radio said KMAD so I know it was in fact the right station.
 
Was that KMAD display RDS or IBOC? I don't hear a trace of IBOC from them - and there was no drop in coverage recently.

I'd sure like to see them do a move-in to the KLAK tower. There is little difference between the move-in scenario for 102.5 than there was for 97.5. I would think it would be a no brainer.

As far as that 93.1 move-in - another country station - who cares - but you are right, 93.1 would not be a good frequency for a move in.

Another move-in I would desperately like to see is KNIN on 92.9. It is about the same scenario as the Twister - they could go up on that tower and not lose Wichita Falls. We DESPERATELY need a REAL top-40 station here, not one that has an identity crisis with urban and hip-hop. I've got it in my car fairly reliably, but it is the very weakest of rim shots at 140 miles away right now.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
Another move-in I would desperately like to see is KNIN on 92.9. It is about the same scenario as the Twister - they could go up on that tower and not lose Wichita Falls. We DESPERATELY need a REAL top-40 station here, not one that has an identity crisis with urban and hip-hop. I've got it in my car fairly reliably, but it is the very weakest of rim shots at 140 miles away right now.
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Epic hypocrisy...

Surely you are joking...you "desperately" like to see this station moved in here. What makes this station "great" and a "real top 40"? It is owned by Clear Channel; Kidd Kraddick's show runs on it in mornings; DJ shifts are voice tracked from other markets (I made an aircheck of several WF stations last time I was near there...the KNIN one features the DJ mixing it up for his KWTX-FM Waco shift -- "97.5, Today's Hit Music", umm, no it's suppose to be "92-9NIN"); the station is more of a hot AC than a top 40. In fact, the playlist is practically identical to KDMX 102.9 here and, for a CHR, duller than the IQ of anyone watching KXAS's nightly newscast. It was shifted towards a hot AC lean a couple of years ago when competing Cumuls KQXC 103.9 went rhythmic and starting beating them.

KNIN used to be a terrific small town top 40 station, but it has been a shell of itself the last 8-10 years. The mid-1980s through 1994 KNIN was great; this is a hollow version. Maybe when CC spins off its small market outlets, it will end up in better hands.

As much as people post on here how terrible Clear Channel is, the evils of bland corporate playlists, and out-of-market syndication and voice tracking, you are either joking or a total hypocrite to embrace that station as a model of something that needs to enter this market since it is the combination of all those evils. It is today to its former self what today's KVIL is to its former self.
 
No hypocrisy at all. A top 40 station that does NOT put hip-hop or urban into the mix is VERY needed here. I am sick and tired of my daughter hearing perfectly appropriate, good songs on KHKS, only to have the next song by some artist who is flagrantly over the line with hate speech, sexual content, or drug references. When I put KNIN on in the car or at home, everybody absolutely loves it because there is almost none of that garbage on there. We have also been streaming KKOB a lot - it is a healthy compromise between the KNIN style of top-40 and what KHKS does.

KNIN the same as KDMX? Don't make me laugh. Mix is clearly 80's and 90's - KNIN has very few of those songs.
 
I agree KNIN am & FM were superior in the 80's than what they are are today; a dried up husk of a station.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
No hypocrisy at all. A top 40 station that does NOT put hip-hop or urban into the mix is VERY needed here. I am sick and tired of my daughter hearing perfectly appropriate, good songs on KHKS, only to have the next song by some artist who is flagrantly over the line with hate speech, sexual content, or drug references. When I put KNIN on in the car or at home, everybody absolutely loves it because there is almost none of that garbage on there. We have also been streaming KKOB a lot - it is a healthy compromise between the KNIN style of top-40 and what KHKS does.
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A "real top 40" dating back to the KLIF days was a station that played the top 40 hits. Like it or not (and I don't really like it), hip hop and R&B have been dominating the top 40 charts for the last several years. So, KHKS is a "real top 40." KNIN excludes most of the top 40 and has a playlist that mirrors the hot AC format charts. It's not a "real top 40."

KNIN the same as KDMX? Don't make me laugh. Mix is clearly 80's and 90's - KNIN has very few of those songs.
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KDMX ditched most of the 80s last year...it's relegated to the lunchtime 80s show with an 80s retro tune popping up periodically out the day; most of what is played is 90s and on, which is the same as KNIN. The two play almost identical music now.

The last songs played through 6:30 tonight on the two illustrate that...

KNIN:
Third Eye Blind/Jumper (1997)
Rob Thomas/Lonely No More
Collective Soul/December (1995)
Sugar Ray/Someday (1999)
Snow Patrol/Chasing Cars
Goo Goo Dolls/Stay With You
Nickelback/If Everyone Cared
John Mayer/Daughters
U2/One (1991)

KDMX:
311/Love Song
Mat Kearney/Nothing Left to Lose
Goo Goo Dolls/Iris
Kelly Clarkson/Behind These Hazel Eyes
Matchbox 20/Push
John Mayer/Waiting on the World To Change
Nickelback/Far Away
Christina Aguilera/Beautiful
Stone Temple Pilots/Interstate Love Song
All American Rejects/Move Along

Hell, the KDMX music on average is more current than the KNIN stuff. The oldest song...U2/One from 1991...was on KNIN and not KDMX. All those songs on KNIN appear on KDMX. For a station with "few" 90s, 4 of the 9 they just played were from the 1990s.
 
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