New Sports Station Coming To DFW

[AnyHuman]

Check out KEGL's Facebook page. Their automated news poster is going and going and every link it posts redirects you to the dummy page. LMAO

 

[Mrbiglott]

Sounds like the new station will be more along the lines of Real Radio 104-1 Orlando than full time Sports radio.

If that is indeed the case, I like the move.

I do too! I’m just happy they kept the Eagle intact as well.

 

[Mrbiglott]

That’s not happening. 1190 serves a clearinghouse for iHeart’s in-house syndicated talk programming.

I know it’s not, it would be funny if they did.

 

[Marcos_C]

Check out KEGL's Facebook page. Their automated news poster is going and going and every link it posts redirects you to the dummy page. LMAO

So, that Facebook page is essentially worthless until Monday at 3:00 pm at the earliest.

 

[Rudy Fitzneris]

I suspect a sound similar to the Bone is exactly what they're striving for. This isn't going to be a purely sports talk station in all probability.

If it's even 40% sports, it's a sports station. All the hires are sports people. The lineup is already out.

 

[Marcos_C]

The lineup is already out.

This supposed new lineup is from an unofficial source. Therefore, I am not going to comment on any new lineup until I see it on KEGL's official channels.

 

[neosolbrudda]

If it's even 40% sports, it's a sports station. All the hires are sports people. The lineup is already out.

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And this right here is exactly why they are launching at 3pm Monday. It appears Mike Rhyner will be the "Star of the Station", so it's only fitting for him to launch the new format.

 

[Loverofradio]

The confusion continues

 

[101tm]

The confusion continues View attachment 3634

What’s different about this?

 

[Marcos_C]

The confusion continues

I have been reading the comments on the Facebook page, and they are mostly negative, with several of them saying that they have removed 97.1 from their presets.

 

[ContinuousWave]

On stations like these (talk stations on FM in a large market), do iHeart and Audacy generally turn off the stereo pilot? If they are going to have a music element I guess not, but in the southeast at least it’s common for them to shut the stereo carrier off, only thing is most of the stations I’ve physically checked don’t have the best or strongest signal so I don’t know if that would apply to a signal like 97.1.

I did on 99.5 WRNO New Orleans when I became Engineering Manager in Dec 2019, a former rock that iHeartMedia flipped to talk. It makes a big difference in the outlying areas

 

[AceBiscuits]

If it's even 40% sports, it's a sports station. All the hires are sports people. The lineup is already out.

“Sports people” can also talk about things that are not sports related.

 

[charles1234]

I can tell that this new format will stink to high heaven

 

[Mark Hunter]

I got stickers for memories if anyone wants one.

 

[salemjedi54]

I got stickers for memories if anyone wants one.View attachment 3635

Any V100, 100.3 Jamz or KNOK stickers?

 

[neosolbrudda]

Any V100, 100.3 Jamz or KNOK stickers?

This is hanging on my wall...

 

[Rudy Fitzneris]

I got stickers for memories if anyone wants one.View attachment 3635

OMG I would LOVE to have those two Eagle stickers! That would be awesome!

 

[Rudy Fitzneris]

4:03AM

97.1 is only static.

 

[davideduardo]

4:03AM

97.1 is only static.

That is amusing because static is amplitude modulated. FM's initial selling point about 80 years ago was "no static".

 

[Rudy Fitzneris]

I meant it's not just dead air - but literal static. Or at least at 4am it was.