kxt = sux

[bassassassin]

A mile wide and an inch deep?

I thought it was describing the Trinity "river".....

 

[critic319]

If you want mainstream commercial music repeated in a predictable rotation, there are plenty of options. If you don't like KXT then don't listen. KXT doesn't suck. To expect a listener supported public radio station to sound like a commercial radio station isn't realistic. I don't like all of their programming but I listen quite often and enjoy most of what I hear. As for the ratings, they've only been on the air since November, they're playing music that is new to most, and they are actually registering listeners. KGSR and KTCU are both good stations but not the same as KXT. You might as well say that Lonestar sucks, they should be more like the Eagle. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, I'm just sayin.

 

[TheRover]

If you want mainstream commercial music repeated in a predictable rotation, there are plenty of options. If you don't like KXT then don't listen. KXT doesn't suck. To expect a listener supported public radio station to sound like a commercial radio station isn't realistic. I don't like all of their programming but I listen quite often and enjoy most of what I hear. As for the ratings, they've only been on the air since November, they're playing music that is new to most, and they are actually registering listeners. KGSR and KTCU are both good stations but not the same as KXT. You might as well say that Lonestar sucks, they should be more like the Eagle. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, I'm just sayin.

How about I say that Lone Star AND The Eagle both SUCK.

I Hate the Processed sound of KXT.

 

[johnqdoe]

If you want mainstream commercial music repeated in a predictable rotation, there are plenty of options. If you don't like KXT then don't listen. KXT doesn't suck. To expect a listener supported public radio station to sound like a commercial radio station isn't realistic. I don't like all of their programming but I listen quite often and enjoy most of what I hear. As for the ratings, they've only been on the air since November, they're playing music that is new to most, and they are actually registering listeners. KGSR and KTCU are both good stations but not the same as KXT. You might as well say that Lonestar sucks, they should be more like the Eagle. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, I'm just sayin.

How about I say that Lone Star AND The Eagle both SUCK.

I Hate the Processed sound of KXT.

LOnestar and the Eagle...along with 95% of the stuff on the dial is generic, McDonalds-WalMart, Corporate radio...That said...Rover hates EVERYTHING

 

[jeffdfw]

I don't know who the chick is on in the morning but she either sounds half asleep or REALLY bored.

 

[johnqdoe]

I don't know who the chick is on in the morning but she either sounds half asleep or REALLY bored.

That is ONE thing I really don't like about public radio. I certainly don't want "GOOD MORNIN TO YA, 68 DEGREES AS YOU POUR THAT COFFEE THIS MORNING..MM MMMM GOOD!!!". But there's something to be said for at least sounding like you have a pulse

 

[charles123]

I don't know who the chick is on in the morning but she either sounds half asleep or REALLY bored.

Jeanne Masscoro

 

[jd]

But there's something to be said for at least sounding like you have a pulse

You're not alone. It's like the old days of album rock, when the jocks said in so many words, "...I'm too cool for school and hip beyond belief." (Of course, in their own mind-altered way maybe they were.) Here's what was played in the first hour of the morning show today:

The Gourds "Hooky Junk"
My Brightest Diamond "Feeling Good"
Nina Simone "Sinnerman"
Real Estate "Beach Comber"
Fate Lions "Seen It All"
Chuck Prophet "American Man"
ZZ Top "Balinese"
Sparklehorse "Galveston"
Ray Charles "Wichita Lineman"
Telegraph Canyon "Quiet Assurance"
Amy Cook "Hotel Lights"
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit "The Blue"
Free Energy "Something In Common"
Jamie Cullum "Wheels"

Seriously, if you're playing some tunes that seldom if ever get airplay in D/FW that should give you every right to get excited about it. The fact is, with a playlist that includes music from multiple genres that spans several generations maybe it's your duty to be excited. I really want to like this station more than I do, so from a local standpoint please look (and sound) alive, KXT!

 

[dfwrunner]

But there's something to be said for at least sounding like you have a pulse

You're not alone. It's like the old days of album rock, when the jocks said in so many words, "...I'm too cool for school and hip beyond belief." (Of course, in their own mind-altered way maybe they were.) Here's what was played in the first hour of the morning show today:

The Gourds "Hooky Junk"
(snip)

I really want to like this station more than I do, so from a local standpoint please look (and sound) alive, KXT!

I want an eclectic station, but my version of eclectic is old country, mixed with bluegrass and folk...ktfw is closest right now.

Edit: actually I'd probably include selected metal, "edge", and "disco" , and very specific world music" selections, but I have very black/white tastes.

 

[TheRover]

I don't know who the chick is on in the morning but she either sounds half asleep or REALLY bored.

That is ONE thing I really don't like about public radio. I certainly don't want "GOOD MORNIN TO YA, 68 DEGREES AS YOU POUR THAT COFFEE THIS MORNING..MM MMMM GOOD!!!". But there's something to be said for at least sounding like you have a pulse

What a contrast to Classic Rock tastefully playing "Whole Lotta Love" as the sun comes up. So sensitive to .... NO ONE. It's rare to find any radio with a sense of anything but Rah Rah Rah Rah Rah.

I LOVE the Medium of OTA Radio.

I pretty much HATE what is delivered over that medium, and how it's delivered, particularly when it comes to Music and the jockeys that ride those nags in. You think I beat a dead horse ? ? ? What do you think 92.5 and 97.1 and 102.1 do every hour of every day ?????

 

[jd]

Not to get terribly maudlin, but the death of good [commercial] radio that you lament reminds me of a statement about the end of the world, that our planet would not go out with a bang, but with a whimper. The adventure is gone, the predictable is the norm and the audience just doesn't care.

The best example of my own realization that radio was losing any supposed sense of adventure was when I was working at an album rock station and our new program director decided that we should "tighten things up." Talk up the intros, cut any other talk to a bare minimum, make drastic reductions to the playlist and rely on the advice of a programming guru a thousand miles removed from our market. He specifically forbade natural segues as they appeared on albums that we routinely played, most notably Pink Floyd's "Time" into "The Great Gig In the Sky." I don't know exactly when that happened but I remember how I felt at the time. It wasn't exactly "The Day The Music Died;" instead it was a glimpse into the future of the medium. And for the record, I never again played "The Great Gig" on that station, or any other one.