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KPYK Terrell Sold

My guess is they will flip it to Sports. E Networks has a number of them. I would love to see it keep its Big Band/Standards format. But I doubt that will continue. RD member B-Turner knows a lot about this station, and it's now former owner, and can offer some insight on this
 
They must be closing or had closed the radio shack store the mohnkerns owned where this was in the back of, because the contract seems to indicate the buyer is or can assume the lease.

I cant imagine theyll keep most of whats on the inventory list
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
They must be closing or had closed the radio shack store the mohnkerns owned where this was in the back of, because the contract seems to indicate the buyer is or can assume the lease.
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Closed for awhile now, SRG. It was reopened as a MetroPCS store the last time I was in Terrell. May very well be something else by now, though. I try my very best not to get that close to the Metroplex too often. 😂
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Running what kind of sports? The Ticket and The Fan are local stations in Terrell.
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Fan's on AM, 🐸. 96.7 isn't the best signal in Terrell. Still has those glorious rimshot tendencies. Keep in mind, there was 103.3 serving the area as a sports outlet for many a year.
Mediafrog+ said:
Only if they’re going for the age 90 to dead demographic.
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Hey, now! We also have one of those Standards outlets, here in ETX. QX-FM (@ 100.3 Longview & 97.9 Tyler) and very few of its listeners are 90 years old or dead quite yet!
 
It might be a good idea to do some like AC Gold... 80s 90s upbeat pop mixed in with a few select like 70s late oldies tunes and maybe a few of the more current top testing pop but not top 40 tunes. WE do it in Laramie, WY and it works very well.. now, i know theres a difference between laramie and terrell, but.. it works well against competition that has every other format against us..... and its real good for in office, in home, work listening..... and its real up beat so it attracts even younger people. and a station like KPYK needs to go after that to bring in some $
 
rosecitymedia said:
Fan's on AM, 🐸.
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The Fan is on 105.3 FM from Cedar Hill.
rosecitymedia said:
96.7 isn't the best signal in Terrell.
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True, but Terrell is well within the primary contour of the 1310 simulcast both day and night.
rosecitymedia said:
Keep in mind, there was 103.3 serving the area as a sports outlet for many a year.
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The 103.3 signal was superior in Terrell to 96.7, and there is currently no ESPN affiliate in DFW, so a possibility.
rosecitymedia said:
Hey, now! We also have one of those Standards outlets, here in ETX. QX-FM (@ 100.3 Longview & 97.9 Tyler) and very few of its listeners are 90 years old or dead quite yet!
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I was referring to the Big Band component. Big Band fizzled out at the end of the 1940s, so if you were a teenager at that time you are now in your 90s.

Standards would be for the 85 to dead demographic, and consists of people who rejected Rock & Roll.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
The Fan is on 105.3 FM from Cedar Hill.

True, but Terrell is well within the primary contour of the 1310 simulcast both day and night.

The 103.3 signal was superior in Terrell to 96.7, and there is currently no ESPN affiliate in DFW, so a possibility.

I was referring to the Big Band component. Big Band fizzled out at the end of the 1940s, so if you were a teenager at that time you are now in your 90s.

Standards would be for the 85 to dead demographic, and consists of people who rejected Rock & Roll.
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There used to be a standards station with the call letters WIZZ and i joked their demographics/tag line was "WIZZ: For the 70 to dead age group who cant take one anymore"
 
Aside from high school sports, KPYK's billing is primarily on Sundays from what I am told. When I was at what was then KTER, under Dick Zimmer, likely half of the billing was on the weekends. Bill Pirtle took the station back from Dick and later sold it to Monkern.
 
rosecitymedia said:
Fan's on AM, 🐸. 96.7 isn't the best signal in Terrell. Still has those glorious rimshot tendencies. Keep in mind, there was 103.3 serving the area as a sports outlet for many a year.

Hey, now! We also have one of those Standards outlets, here in ETX. QX-FM (@ 100.3 Longview & 97.9 Tyler) and very few of its listeners are 90 years old or dead quite yet!
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I've listened to QX-FM's online stream and I actually find it quite enjoyable. However, I'm having trouble calling it a nostalgia station; the station appears to mostly what I used to call soft ac--acoustic oldies from the 1950s-1970s.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
The Fan is on 105.3 FM from Cedar Hill.
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For crying out loud. Whatever I got slipped in my tallboy yesterday, it must've really worked wonders. Obviously, I meant to type Ticket and had Fan on my mind.
Mediafrog+ said:
True, but Terrell is well within the primary contour of the 1310 simulcast both day and night.
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It is, but that doesn't mean a whole lot and was the argument I was trying to make yesterday. In Terrell, KTCK 1310 and KRLD-FM 105.3 are what is left available, without static and dropouts, like the FM counterpart to 1310 is. There is certainly room for E Radio to add sports programming on 1570 and the translator, and be able to carve out a better place in the pecking order for the station. Mohnkern didn't care. The station was his toy, the format his passion. That won't be the case with the Tates.
Mediafrog+ said:
The 103.3 signal was superior in Terrell to 96.7, and there is currently no ESPN affiliate in DFW, so a possibility.
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Still is, 🐸. Only 103.3 is preaching at us now, as opposed to offering personal opinions, news stories and play by play.
Mediafrog+ said:
I was referring to the Big Band component. Big Band fizzled out at the end of the 1940s, so if you were a teenager at that time you are now in your 90s.
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I like Chuck Conrad's QX-FM regardless of my birth year being 1971. Sure, I'm an outlier, but the format still has a place up here in retirementville.

Of course, in this day and age, and with the demographic breakdown in Houston, it wouldn't anymore, but people tend to talk about it and K-DOK regularly around here. In a few more years, and after a few more truckloads full of out-of-state transplants, that will likely change. For now, Tyler-Longview has each of the options, and I strongly encourage everyone interested in the formats to give each of the stations a listen.
 
rosecitymedia said:
It is, but that doesn't mean a whole lot and was the argument I was trying to make yesterday. In Terrell, KTCK 1310 and KRLD-FM 105.3 are what is left available, without static and dropouts, like the FM counterpart to 1310 is. There is certainly room for E Radio to add sports programming on 1570 and the translator, and be able to carve out a better place in the pecking order for the station. Mohnkern didn't care. The station was his toy, the format his passion. That won't be the case with the Tates.
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Whatever format they put from their six brands is nothing but filler. Only thing that will matter will be local high school sports play-by-play. Nothing else.
 
As someone working for a group that airs local high school games, as an additional bonus to the regular programming featured, if that is going to be the case with E Radio's acquisition of KPYK that's pretty disappointing. The games mean a lot to each individual community, no doubt, but so do many of the other aspects offered to the general listening audience. If it's to be satellite driven, with only local service coming by way of Tigers' football play-by-play, what a shame. Might as well simulcast it and KGVL and just split the two each Friday night for the individual Greenville and Terrell games.
 
E Radio Network purchased 20 other stations recently. The company's website seems rather useless right now, with not much information. From Radio Insight, a list of stations purchased.

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E Radio Network & Blacksun Equity Partners Acquire High Plains Radio Network Stations

Monte Spearman’s High Plains Radio Network is wrapping up its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding by selling their station assets to a pair of buyers. Christie Tate’s E Radio Network will purchase ten stations and one translator in Arkansas and Texas for $1 million. The company flipped all of the...
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I worked at KTER/KPYK back, in the early 90's. Bill Collins had it all Gospel all the time until Mohnkern and son bought them. The call letters changed officially to KPYK on April 4, 1992. We had a modern middle of the road format. An amazing mix of music from the 40's to 90's. Country, Pop, jazz and some rock. Tons of all time favorites. Then a easy listening format came, then Big Bands and then an AM Gold - Standard format now. The future of the format is to be found out later. 🙂

I just got off the phone with the owner Chuck Mohnkern and he is grateful to have had the station for as long as he did. The rest is is between friends but, Mom and pop stations are going away. Folks, the closest mom and pop near Dallas is KGAF in Gainesville. Steve Eberhart, you have a great operation going and congratulations on your Award.
 


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