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KXT

Hi KXT: this is not a radio "fan site". If you find a station to be improved, let us know in what way... such as improved rotations, better song to song segues, better era focus (or broader eras if that is your preference).
 
I guess while we’re here, I’ll chime in…

I haven’t heard “The Republic of Music” being used as a positioning statement for a while. It seems like they’re now using, “NPR Music for North Texas”. It also doesn’t appear that there was a change in the music when this happened.

Additionally, what do you think of their new logo? They updated the logos for KXT and WRR quite a while ago and I’m still not sure if I like them. They are very minimal, especially WRR’s.
 
chriscervantez said:
I haven’t heard “The Republic of Music” being used as a positioning statement for a while. It seems like they’re now using, “NPR Music for North Texas”. It also doesn’t appear that there was a change in the music when this happened.
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Yeah, I also noticed they gave up on that. It was neat hearing Sir Paul McCartney or Sir Sting say “91.7 KXT, the Republic of Music,” before a song of theirs would come on.

As for the music, they’re still the same wide mix of indie, soul, classic rock, local bands, and Americana they’ve been since their inception. I say KTCU is a better version of KXT. KXT gets stuck on the same artists from time to time and they don’t dig as deep as KTCU. Both are great assets to the local music scene, though.
 
nalyem said:
As for the music, they’re still the same wide mix of indie, soul, classic rock, local bands, and Americana they’ve been since their inception. I say KTCU is a better version of KXT. KXT gets stuck on the same artists from time to time and they don’t dig as deep as KTCU. Both are great assets to the local music scene, though.
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Let's face it, KXT has more variety than let's say Alt 103.7 and maybe Indie 88.1
 
E-Cam said:
Let's face it, KXT has more variety than let's say Alt 103.7 and maybe Indie 88.1
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KXT absolutely blows all the commercial stations out of the water, as far as playlist length. I think KXT has 88.1 beat as well. I’ve thought of KXT as a “college lite” station, like 94.5 the Edge was when it first started in the very early 90’s. Basically, not as adventurous as a true college station, but still has a good pulse on the up and coming and plays the occasional deep cut. I say KXT surprises me about once or twice an hour as opposed to say KTCU, which surprises me about half of its playlist.

Above all, what impresses me most about KXT and KTCU is their ability to play local artists. The vast majority of whom will never make it big, but still have pretty good songwriting talent. I can EASILY claim to have found a few hundred new local bands through KXT and KTCU. Quite a number of them I like and would put up there with my favorite bands,
 
nalyem said:
Above all, what impresses me most about KXT and KTCU is their ability to play local artists.
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IIRC, Alt once did a local show at one point (so did The Edge and Eagle(?) during their times) but ended up cancelling it due to Audacy wanting to cookie-cut their alternative stations to sound more-pop and add talk shows from LA. That was a disaster.
 
E-Cam said:
IIRC, Alt once did a local show at one point (so did The Edge and Eagle(?) during their times) but ended up cancelling it due to Audacy wanting to cookie-cut their alternative stations to sound more-pop and add talk shows from LA. That was a disaster.
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They did. It was Sunday nights 8-9. Hosted by Mark Schectman of the Edge and the Ticket. Mark gave up a decent gig at the Ticket to move over to 103.7. I knew it wouldn’t work out. Anyways, it was a good local show, but it was on at the same time as KXT’s specialty show, so I’d have to split time and I’d rather give KXT the ratings. Also Alt’s Local Show shared a lot of the same artists as KXT.

I never liked 103.7 from the beginning. I knew they would chicken out of playing any local artists. Commercial radio just can’t take risks anymore.
 
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