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The Edge 100.3 is the ONLY alternative rock station in town do you think that they will hold the market or do you think that Equity will try again?
 
Given the fact that they don't even own the radio station they have left, and this new company that took over is just a bunch of beancounters, one would think from the outside looking in that they would focus on their television properties. WB101 is simply an automated jukebox that occasionally promotes a television program or two. They would do much better to sublease the station to someone who could do something with it.
 
I wholeheartedly agree. But you know how well the WB stations do... They put them on and they take them off about as fast.. Im shocked that they haven't flipped the Edge.. I don't have much faith in our market anymore.. I thought the Razor was doing pretty well. But I guess they weren't. We shall see what happens by the end of spring.
 
I believe they changed it to a television station.. They now Broadcast Univision and RTN (Retro Television Network)

So they don't have a radio station anymore.


I feel that Archway had a good thing going with The Razor. Like we needed another Gospel/Christian station, but what do I know.
 
Only problem here is, The Edge and Razor are not alternative/modern rock. They are active rock, hard rock stations for young males.
 
Okay....there is my take on things.

The Razor never *was* alternative period. It was a hair metal station with a little classic rock and some never metal thrown in. Ratings always tanked for it, but i'm sure it had its followers (i've met a few folks that admitted to listening to KGHT and KMTL, btw). The Edge (100.3) has always been male-oreinted and nothing that resembled Indie Rock/College Rock, etc.

Little Rock last had a station that resembled indie/alternative was a decade ago with Flinn's rebroadcast of that Memphis Alt/Rock station on 101.1 (KDRE). About 1996 it got more mainstream and repositioned as The Zone and by April 1, 1997 it was gone and flipped to the short-lived Z-101.

Its doubtful in today's climate that a indie station would succeed and more so in Little Rock. After, a rock station not playing Skynard, or the Eagles would be considered not kosher by the Benton, Bryant, Cabot crowd.
 
We're gonna get the Led out, right after this word from Crain in Conway,
just behind the Waffle House, right, Blazin' Bill?
 
Speaking of Crain...but not of anything else on this string (sorry)...it sounds like the image voice guy on the annoying Y107 in Conway (owned by Crain Media) is the same guy who does the Crain Kia commercials...
 
The guy imaging Y107 in Conway is a guy by the name of Ben Blankenship. He works for the Presley/Saga group in Jonesboro, but has his own V.O. business on the side.The imaging for Y107 sounds 100% better than it did when they were using the network guy, hands down. Oh, and I don't think he is the same voice for the Crain commercials....I could be wrong though
 
RedHotRadio said:
So I take it Crain Media isn't in Searcy any more? I used to work the boards for the local football/basketball games..
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Crain Media is still in Searcy with a few stations there, but moved KCNY to Greenbriar/conway and changed calls. It is the only propoerty in Conway for Crain
 
Whatever happened to Lick 106.3? Where did it go? I know that it was one of the leading holders in that genre for awhile before it got turned into an oldies station. I also know some folks that were pretty peeved by that switch too. You go from playing Metallica to the Four Seasons and there are going to be some complaints.
 
Lick lost Corey & Jay as well as most of its audience to the more powerful and better financed KDJE "100.3 The Edge." I'm sure there were a few die-hard fans of the station who were upset, but I suspect most didn't even notice it was gone. It was kind of a shame as it was, from a musical standpoint, certainly more adventurous than The Edge. However, the station was so built on Corey & Jay that it couldn't survive without them. It's a classic example of why you should be diversified.
 
I agree, but even KDJE is pretty set on Corey and Jay. I used to listen most mornings. I wish they would change up their music selection a little, play some of the older stuff more often maybe. I don't mind Corey and Jay, it's just nice to hear something different once in awhile.
 
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