The station will be going away. We hope the format will come back in a Houston Market signal.
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The station will be going away. We hope the format will come back in a Houston Market signal.
From what I heard it has changed already. But went back to Country, on Powerfm top of the hour ID they mention KTWL. And Mr Henderson doesnt own KTWL anymore.
Very stubborn. The FCC cancelled DHKTZ and lists it as open allotment. Appeals to the FCC are ignored. https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10724176839063/Petition for Reconsideration - Various Allotments 7-24-2020.pdf
I haven’t heard KTWL playing power. It must have been for a day I didn’t check.
I wonder if KVIC wants to go back to 95.1
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Would KTWL's coverage area be better served by Texas country than Spanish music? Maybe that's why.
I know it is nit picking, but "Spanish music" is music from Spain. What the stations in Texas broadcast is Spanish language music, and most of the traditional songs are from Mexico and the new reggaetón sound is mostly from Puerto Rico and Colombia.
Flipping this regional station to Spanish-language programming would provoke the same reaction Trump got from Houston democrats. Stations in rural areas that broadcast foreign programming often find their antennas and/or coax shot up. KTWL continues to serve it's regional listeners, albeit with reduced power to ensure it doesn't rimshot into Houston. A win win for everybody.
Excuse me, but formats in Spanish are hardly "foreign programming". There is very definite proof that English came to Texas quite a while after Spanish was broadly spoken in that territory. Just look at the name of many if not most of the towns and landmarks in southern Texas...
Please define "often" with some specific cases.
You're just buying into false fear/hate mongering. The station is already being destroyed by K287BQ in most of Montgomery County. It is also unlistenable in Hempstead (which is it's COL).
No transmitter has been shot up. No hate rallies have been formed. No one has protested when Freddy Fender or Rick Treviño songs use spanish lyrics.
Also, let's not forget that this isn't the first time K287BQ has interfered with KTWL. When the translator first signed on, KTWL was similarly obliterated throughout most of it's Southwest service area. Roy successfully got it off the air. I'm not sure why K287BQ is so stubborn and trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. The owners know they've been told the station doesn't work from downtown. Buying KTWL isn't going to excuse them from this.
On a mildly related note, I see all the downtown translators aren't reaching as far as they used to. The exception is K287BQ as it is currently interfering with KTWL.
Correction; it is the old COL.
I guess you all dont know the story about when Univision flipped kxxf to Spanish "party 105.3 fm".". Calling Dade...
The "Party 105.3" simulcast wasn't a spanish station. During their run as a Hip-Hop station, English was the only language used over the air.
Also, an anecdotal story doesn't represent the entire region. It's obvious you don't know the type of listeners KTWL targets. It's more diverse and accepting than your average backwoods country formats. Also, let's not forget that KTWL was already flipped once briefly for Radio Dabang. By all accounts, the station survived (unless you want to blame the 2016 tornado on intolerance, but that was before the brief DaBang run).
As BamaTX says, Party was a an English rhythmic / hip hop formatted station targeting mostly the Hispanic hip hop partisan. It was not in Spanish.
If KTWL and K287BQ are perfectly synced up then I could see it working well driving from Houston to College Station or Houston to Huntsville. Also I can hear some translators like 92.5 ESPN and 94.1 La Nueva all the way up in Conroe. They should not be heard that well so far north of Houston.
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