OK, that is debatable but it is a political and not a radio subject. I am deleting rest of responses that are pure politics.
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Country KTLW flipped to Oldies as KYST in 1980. The Top 40 attempt lasted less than a year starting in June 1982.
The largest share ever registered on the 920 frequency was a 1.3 in Spring 1988.
A choir of 2–3 singers, both of which signed the LMA with the owner.
Unless they actually have a budget to market the format (and they don't have a budget to subscribe to Nielsen), no one will know the station exists and no one will listen.
Only having an AM signal, especially what is seen as a technically inferior one, is akin to participating in the witness protection program. You really won't be influencing anyone, regardless of the viewpoint proffered.
And Indigenous people look at you as the illegal immigrant!
Not just that, but how many other stations with similar programming are in the market?
It's just the same as being the third-string Top 40 station in a market 50 years ago.
The Biden Administration disagrees that most immigrants live a spanish-dominant lifestyle and that they dont care about politics? Buddy, I'm not sure what trip you're on, but David is right.
Immigrants are the only ones consuming Spanish language media. Their offsprings (which make up a large percentage of the US Hispanic population) are assimilating and are slowly losing interest in Spanish language music (outside of mainstream music of course).
There are probably more Hispanics in San Antonio listening to country music then there are Hispanics listening to Spanish Adult Hits.
Understand that 18 years after arrival, those illegals will have created a large family of educated, voting, legal citizens.
First generation: nearly 100% remain Spanish dominant, and listen to the music they grew up on or some derivative. Second generation, the first one born here, is English dominant. They learn to listen to hip hop or pop or even other forms among friends in school and that is their primary taste, while the exposure to Spanish language music at home sticks a little, but is not a preference.
By third or fourth generation, they mispronounce items on the Taco Bell menu.
The last time I looked, of the two principal country stations, one has slightly less than half its cume among Hispanics, and the other slightly more.
If the owner of this station is an example, they'll vote conservative. Just like him.
Looking back through an online archive of the Galveston Daily News, one finds that the sale closed in 1980 and the calls changed to KYST with an oldies format on July 26 of that year. Roy Henderson was the buyer. Studios moved to Houston in 1982, shortly after a power increase to 5 kw and addition of nighttime facilities of 1 kw.
The station was originally based in the Showboat Theater, which had to be rebuilt after the notorious 1947 chemical plant explosion that destroyed much of the community. Those studios were used until the 1982 move. In that year, the format became Top 40.
The all-Beatles format kicked off May 9, 1983. In the understatement of the century, the Daily News quoted a station employee regarding the reason for the format: "Operations manager Cat Simon says the idea was born of desperation. Faced with 39 competing Houston-area stations in a declining AM market, the small ... KYST had almost no audience." By the end of 1983, KYST went to a Spanish-language format.
I was brought into this world 20 years earlier than you in 1951. It was John Lander & the Morning Zoo on 79Q as KULF morphed into KKBQ.
After being a 5KW daytimer since 1968, KENR 1070 went 24 hours in 1972 with 10KW-Day and 5KW-Night-DA2. KNUZ 1230 went country in 1973 after being killed by KILT 610 in the ratings. KNUZ lost the Top 40 war. KILT had 5KW day and night, while KNUZ had a 1000 watts in the day and 250 watts at night. It was no match for KENR. As far as KTLW is concerned, I went on the air there in December 1972. It could not compete with KENR either. KTLW was so hungry for sales, they sold the sign-off to KENR. "KTLW 920 has come to the end of it's broadcast day. KTLW is owed and operated by the Texas City Broadcasting Service, JG Long, President. Join us again at 6AM for another broadcast day of country music." The wrap-up went like this: "You can now tune to 1070AM KENR, where the country music never stops. This was followed by a "10-70, K-E-N-R" jingle. At that conclusion, we dropped the plates, followed by the filaments. The controlroom monitor would fill with KARK 920 Little Rock (Now KARN). We sold the audience away. Brilliant! There was no reason to come back.
Amazing. I hadn't heard much about KENR - by the time I was in Houston, it was KRBE.
Way to talk about your fellow human beings as: "Illegals". Dehumanizing those who aren't like you makes you feel superior?
Radio, radio.
There's absolutely no need for any kind of vocabulary gymnastics. All you're doing is derailing the thread. Pointing out that people who enter this country in an illegal manner are "illegal immigrants" isn't dehumanizing. Even illegal immigrants will call their status "ilegal" from time to time. It has nothing to do with superiority.
Please stick to discussions about radio. If you must talk about politics, then make it relevant to radio (or media in general). If you have a complaint about racism, bigotry, classism, or sexism on this board, then please wait for an actual instance of it. Going out of your way to find something offensive is not very constructive.
Continuing this pattern of unnecessary bickering is just going to get the thread shut down.
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