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Tony Williams

For what it's worth, 92.1 KXEZ, has dropped all live programming except for high school sports.

Owner Ken Jones decided this week to end all morning and afternoon traffic and weather reports for Collin County.

Tony
 
OHTBGH said:
So whats on in its place Dead Air?

Knowing Ken I may have answered my own question!

-BGH
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Satellite feed of Classic Country from what was the old Jones Network.

Forgot the name of the company which bought Jones.

Totally satellite and automation except, as I stated, for some high school sports.

Tony
 
They pretty much let go of everyone and went automated in the early "Jock In The Box" days. Ran Classic Country from Jones I think. Maybe United Stations. Then it was gone in the station swap. The stations he has now are the end result.

-BGH
 
Yes it was.

It was originally Music of your life type format as well.. Picked up Jack Bishop and others after 620 got sold to Disney and filled the void. Once KAAM picked it up and the calls, Ken abandoned and changed it to the possum I beleive.

-BGH
 
OHTBGH said:
Yes it was.

It was originally Music of your life type format as well.. Picked up Jack Bishop and others after 620 got sold to Disney and filled the void. Once KAAM picked it up and the calls, Ken abandoned and changed it to the possum I beleive.

-BGH
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I know it was Oldies until at least 2005-2006.
 
Here's my little contribution, to further confuse things:

KXEZ, Farmersville. Station established 9/1/1998. Format: Country ("The Possum," 12/29/2006-present; first was a mix of live and satellite programming, now completely satellite-fed from Jones Radio Networks [Dial Global's "Classic Hit Country" format,]) Oldies (ABC's "Oldies Radio" format, to 12/29/2006,) Big Band/Standards, Ethnic. Owner: Ken Jones dba Metro Broadcasters of Texas. Nickname: "Desi Zone," "Goodtime Oldies," "Easy 92.1." Sister station to KHYI-FM (95.3.) Originally the successor to KAAM-AM's second incarnation (620 AM.) Programs: "Sunday Jazz Brunch," "Backstage." Notables as Big Band/Standards: Linda Martin, Irv Jackson aka Jack Bishop, Hal Mayfield, Cary Richards, Jack Carlisle, Dave Conley, Charlie Tuna (syndicated,) Gary Owens (syndicated,) Wink Martindale (syndicated.) Notables as "The Possum:" John Malone, Lew Jones, Monty Montell, Dave West, Jack Edwards (all part of Jones/Dial Global format.) Station split daypart with bartered "Radio Desi" programming in 2002. Station's transmitter is located in Farmersville with studios in Allen.
 
Just one correction: while KXEZ is licensed to Famersville, it's transmitter is not in Farmersville, but is close to Blue Ridge, which is almost ten miles north of Farmersville. For a class A station with a protected contour that is only extends about 18 miles from the transmitter, those ten miles make a huge difference.

With the coverage that this station has, I'm not sure that it will ever be especially viable as a Dallas suburban rimshot. Back when the FCC allotted 92.1 to Farmersville, I'd actually proposed that it be alloted to a community further to the north, where it could have placed a signal into the Sherman/Denison area. Looking at how little this station has been able to do in the Dallas suburbs, I think that would have been a better use of the frequency -- albeit, it still would have been imperfect due to spacing issues with an NCE in Durant, OK.
 
MikeShannon914 said:
Here's my little contribution, to further confuse things:

KXEZ, Farmersville. Station established 9/1/1998. Format: Country ("The Possum," 12/29/2006-present; first was a mix of live and satellite programming, now completely satellite-fed from Jones Radio Networks [Dial Global's "Classic Hit Country" format,]) Oldies (ABC's "Oldies Radio" format, to 12/29/2006,) Big Band/Standards, Ethnic. Owner: Ken Jones dba Metro Broadcasters of Texas. Nickname: "Desi Zone," "Goodtime Oldies," "Easy 92.1." Sister station to KHYI-FM (95.3.) Originally the successor to KAAM-AM's second incarnation (620 AM.) Programs: "Sunday Jazz Brunch," "Backstage." Notables as Big Band/Standards: Linda Martin, Irv Jackson aka Jack Bishop, Hal Mayfield, Cary Richards, Jack Carlisle, Dave Conley, Charlie Tuna (syndicated,) Gary Owens (syndicated,) Wink Martindale (syndicated.) Notables as "The Possum:" John Malone, Lew Jones, Monty Montell, Dave West, Jack Edwards (all part of Jones/Dial Global format.) Station split daypart with bartered "Radio Desi" programming in 2002. Station's transmitter is located in Farmersville with studios in Allen.
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Air time was purchased, not bartered. The story as told by Rehan Sediqi (yes, the same Rehan that has been rooked by D. Frishberg in Houston): Rehan paid Mr. Jones for three months of air time in advance at $30K per. At the time, when driving up the DNTollway with a receiver locked on 92.1FM, the signal would multipath between the Blue Ridge and Glen Rose signals. Frank would be belting out "NY, NY" and get run over by D. Yoakum or vice versa. It seems Rehan didn't bother to do a little signal testing before writing and giving the check to Ken and discovered this small issue only after handing over the $90K. According to Rehan, when he asked Ken why Ken did not tell him the signal did not adequately cover the North Dallas area, Ken's response was: "You didn't ask."
 
LibertyNT said:
Wasn't Hal Mayfield the guy doing it?

Wonder why he had him stop. Considering Hal is the PD and all...
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Forgot to mention ... Hal is the best PD I ever worked for, and he is one of the finest men I have ever known.

Tony
 
LibertyNT said:
I know KXEZ never ran Classic Country From Jones.
They Were GoodTime Oldies then flipped for whatever reason.
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When I was there, it was GoodTime Oldies from Jones.

ABC was dying to say it had an affliate in Dallas, or at at least suburban Dallas, and promised Ken new equipment. So KXEZ flipped to ABC's satellite-fed oldies format.

ABC's jocks were horrible at the time. The audio was worse. The switch was made primarily for free equipment.

The last switch was to Classic Country. In at least a couple of trends, I have seen in the past, KXEZ showed up for the first time. In one, KXEZ beat KHYI, its sister station with the better signal.

Tony
 
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