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KWKH

Sad moment in AM radio. Heard KWKH once here in WA, and it's country used to boom all over the South. Now, we've lost another 50kw heritage C&W station... :'(

-crainbebo
 
It was sports in 2000 before flipping to classic country but apparently townsquare didn't like the ratings said screw the history and flipped to sports.. wonder how long this will last
 
It was country for years. It flipped from country to news-talk in the daytime and country at night with a news block at the top and bottom of every hour as "Newsradio 1130 KWKH" after Progressive United bought it from Great Empire in '96. At least one of the news-talk programs was either a simulcast or a repeat of a program on new sister station KEEL 710. When Progressive United sold to Jacor a couple years later, it went back to country.

Yes, it did run sports beginning in 2000, though I'm not sure how long it lasted before switching to classic country.
 
That sucks! I ocasionally listened to it on the way to work in the mornings in Baton Rouge..As it was better than 104.9 Baton Rouge..
 
Really sorry to hear about this. KWKH was the home of the Louisiana Hayride way back in the day.

I'll miss listening to Elaine via the stream.
 
I recall the earlier incarnation as a news or sport talk station.. but it still ran country overnight. This appears to be the end of that.
Very sad moment in the history of radio.
 
I sure hate to see KWKH's country format gone. In northern VA, I have heard KWKH under WBBR 1130 in NYC a few times at night when I heard its country music.
 
It's sad, KWKH never recovered from the loss of Barney Cannon. And Townsquare never gave 1130 a budget for promotions.

But even with the emphasis on LSU, I think Fox Sports will tank again on 1130. It's an inferior network compared to ESPN. The Mudbugs and Captains folded last year so theres nothing local besides LSUS and high schools. It's sad to think Shreveport used to be a good minor league sports town.

Townsquare needs to sell off their AM stations if they're going to treat them like ghetto slumlords.
 
billyg said:
It's sad, KWKH never recovered from the loss of Barney Cannon. And Townsquare never gave 1130 a budget for promotions.

But even with the emphasis on LSU, I think Fox Sports will tank again on 1130. It's an inferior network compared to ESPN. The Mudbugs and Captains folded last year so theres nothing local besides LSUS and high schools. It's sad to think Shreveport used to be a good minor league sports town.

Townsquare needs to sell off their AM stations if they're going to treat them like ghetto slumlords.
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...and Centenary is now a D3 school.

Being from Southeastern AR, I'm saddened by the departure of the KWKH country music format, athough not a regular or even infrequent listener. The daytime signal did make it this far northeast if one listened on a car radio in winter or their ham radio transceiver (or a really good portable AM Radio---such as the GE Superradio, etc). Another traditional AM Radio station selling out to generic bird-fed programming. I discovered the change last night when I heard some sports PBP on 1130 which seemed unusual, but of all things for UFC MMA fights (via Fox Sports Radio).
 
KWKH makes it all the way up to Lansing, MI at night (neither WISN Milwaukee nor WDFN Detroit come in well at night there). The country format will be missed. RIP.
 
Well KWKH has at least kept its herritage calls, CC would have dumped them with the format! And if you want country on AM there is still the King of all country stations and the last true Class 1A that has class...Yes its KWKH's biggest competitor!! The Air Castle of The South Clear Channel 650 WSM Nashville, TN
 
600kogo said:
Well KWKH has at least kept its herritage calls, CC would have dumped them with the format! And if you want country on AM there is still the King of all country stations and the last true Class 1A that has class...Yes its KWKH's biggest competitor!! The Air Castle of The South Clear Channel 650 WSM Nashville, TN
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I'm glad WSM is still around, yet they even threatened to flip to sports talk a few years ago.

My favorite Classic Country station is Tyler TX KKUS "104.1 The Ranch" at http://theranch.fm/
 
600kogo said:
Well KWKH has at least kept its herritage calls, CC would have dumped them with the format!
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Actually, CC dumped the country format on KWKH for Fox Sports in 2000 and kept the calls. While much of the criticism of Clear Channel may be warranted, keeping heritage calls is one thing they actually do quite well.
 
1250WTAE said:
Its been just over a year since the flip to sports. How is it working out? Still miss KWKH on the dial at night.
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From the last book, even worse than it did as classic country. I guess Townsquare thinks its cheaper to run sports on 1130 than to pay for DJ's and music royalties.
 
600kogo said:
Well KWKH has at least kept its heritage calls, CC would have dumped them with the format! And if you want country on AM there is still the King of all country stations and the last true Class 1A that has class...Yes its KWKH's biggest competitor!! The Air Castle of The South Clear Channel 650 WSM Nashville, TN
I was listening to WSM a short while back and Eddie Stubbs urged the audience to support the station's sponsors and let management know that they appreciated the station and not to take the station for granted! It's a damned shame that most of the innovative programming has vanished from the clear channel stations. WSM, CFZM, KMOX (on Saturday nights) and maybe KTNN are about the only places you can find music on cc-AMs at night anymore.
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klutch00 said:
I was listening to WSM a short while back and Eddie Stubbs urged the audience to support the station's sponsors and let management know that they appreciated the station and not to take the station for granted! It's a damned shame that most of the innovative programming has vanished from the clear channel stations. WSM, CFZM, KMOX (on Saturday nights) and maybe KTNN are about the only places you can find music on cc-AMs at night anymore.
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I agree, WSM is the "last station standing" for that kind of music radio. Gaylord would have flipped them to Sports in 2001 hadn't it been for a huge outcry from the Country Music industry and old fans. At least they still have live DJ's during the day, but overnights they run jockless like most FM's.

Clear Channel and Townsquare have put little if nothing in the promotion of KWKH for decades. Even when the station sounded good playing classic country, they've treated it like a also-ran 1K. No billboards or TV commercials in Shreveport - nothing. If they had a contest it was always one of those bogus "In conjunction with other Clear Channel stations" contests.
 
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