KONO 101.1

[mrh1960]

I was listening to KONO-AM in eastern Williamson County even before the rumor of UTs pending purchase of KXBT. On my Pioneer SX-636, it sounded pretty good. I had someone thinking it was FM they were listening to! Austin gets a pretty decent signal until, of course, sunset. :'(

Yeah...it's nice to have that option, but I prefer it be local so we are getting local updates, i.e. weather, traffic, news etc. Also prefer FM reception...sounds much better. The nice thing was that KXBT had a slightly different playlist than KONO...it leaned more toward Pop/Rock vs Pop/Disco..reminded me more of a 70's Top 40 station...KONO seems more 80's oriented..

Of course, it would be nice to get a local station. Perhaps soon, you all will get something in Austin metro soon. In Nashville, where I recently relocated, it is much the same. No oldies/classic hits (the oldies outlet for years switched to Jack FM in 2005 I believe) except for a college station with a 1000 watts and very low height. Barely gets into northern Davidson County.

What about this Nashville station? seems to be pretty good Oldies/Classic Hits station listening to it online

http://hippieradio945.com/

Agreed...listened to it for the first time yesterday...I liked it, playlist was similiar to KXBT..

 

[kc4rae]

I was listening to KONO-AM in eastern Williamson County even before the rumor of UTs pending purchase of KXBT. On my Pioneer SX-636, it sounded pretty good. I had someone thinking it was FM they were listening to! Austin gets a pretty decent signal until, of course, sunset. :'(

Yeah...it's nice to have that option, but I prefer it be local so we are getting local updates, i.e. weather, traffic, news etc. Also prefer FM reception...sounds much better. The nice thing was that KXBT had a slightly different playlist than KONO...it leaned more toward Pop/Rock vs Pop/Disco..reminded me more of a 70's Top 40 station...KONO seems more 80's oriented..

Of course, it would be nice to get a local station. Perhaps soon, you all will get something in Austin metro soon. In Nashville, where I recently relocated, it is much the same. No oldies/classic hits (the oldies outlet for years switched to Jack FM in 2005 I believe) except for a college station with a 1000 watts and very low height. Barely gets into northern Davidson County.

What about this Nashville station? seems to be pretty good Oldies/Classic Hits station listening to it online

http://hippieradio945.com/

I have only one radio that just hints at receiving it, but the others are receiving adjacent channel splatter from WGSQ in Cookeville. It should be said that the radios used aren't known for being stellar performers.

From what little I've heard, it isn't bad. Just a little challenged like the former oldies outlet was when it was on that Class A signal out of Elgin before the move to the C3 signal in Austin.