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Opinion: SA needs some better stations.

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This is only my opinion, so don't yell at me for sharing it. :p
But, radio in San Antonio is pretty boring. We have next to no good stations.
Let's start out with corporate radio. San Antonio is one of the worst landscapes out there, not one station I know of programs a local format unless you count KXTN. Props to them, but not everyone speaks Spanish. The other corporate stations you can just pretty much forget about, they're the same 30 songs over and over. Not to mention they all play similar music and have horrible processing, for the most part.
As for local radio, well down here we have some Spanish operators (again not everyone speaks Spanish). Some of the other people down here just rent their stations out to groups who program niche formats, and (you guessed it) most are Spanish!
If that's not enough, a couple stations and translators down here just sit silent and empty. Those people just need to sell if they don't care to keep them going.

One local operator, San Antonio Radioworks, I can respect. They've got something different with their KAHL network of stations. It's not my format as I'm way too young for it though... And they don't stream. I know why they don't stream, but that doesn't mean I agree with it-especially when everyone else does it. I suggest they start streaming and flip to something younger. Not my decision though so I'll shut up about it. LOL

I think that, if any people are about to flip a station or launch a new one down here they should go with something nobody else is doing. Alternative? EDM? Texas music/Americana?
I'd suggest a top 40 format that doesn't play the same 25 chart toppers in a row, but there's already a whole lot of boring top 40 in SA, and who knows if a good station will survive alongside the other corporate stations. LOL

That's just my opinion. I went up to Austin recently and was pretty impressed at radio up there, they've got local operators who put on good music, and a few boring stations for the boring people. ;) I just think SA could use some improvement, and that's why I'm looking forward to seeing some LPFM on the air down here.
 
You have 75 views but not one of them left a comment. I follow three “radio boards” and all three of them are equally quiet for the San Antonio/Austin section. Years ago a post like yours would have started a discussion (or argument) sometimes running into several pages. Now days, it appears that people are still reading the boards but no one, or only a few, are posting any comments.

I can only receive a few San Antonio radio stations so I don't have many comments. You mentioned KAHL. I remember when KAHL received their call sign in 2005. They started as a talk station but it was rather boring to me so I only listened a few times to each program to check them out. A couple of the hosts came over from KTSA so I was already familiar with them. I think it was too expensive to pay the hosts so they eventually went to an all music format.
 
Yes, it's still the music format. KAHL is good at what it does, but it's totally automated. I only mentioned it because the operator is 100% local, ads are from local businesses, etc. I guess Adult Standards is still doing well for them, though a few times as of late I've tuned by it and heard them asking people to advertise.

As for these boards, yeah I've read the same three. This one's a little louder than the other two, but just 4 or so years ago they drew a lot more commenters... Even when it wasn't opened up for guest participation! Seems people were just into radio more a couple years ago... It could also be there are a lot more robots hitting these topics and nobody's even reading. Who knows? LOL
 
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If you think LPFM will help, you haven't listened to LPFM in other places. Typically most of the licenses are owned by religious broadcasters. They're the only ones with the pockets and the resources to keep them on the air. The hobbyists either run out of money or energy at some point.
 

I can think of a small handful of LPFMs that are somewhat professionally run, but a lot are religious.

There are seemingly about 50 "old radio guy" Facebook groups and that's where a lot of the conversation that used to be on boards like this has gone. Same subjects (why don't oldies stations play 15,000 B sides?).
 
I think it has a lot more to do with boredom of one's own market offerings than the stations being as bad as we tend to claim. Case in point, San Antonio posters complain that KISS is stuck in the 90s and needs to go more alternative, but I absolutely love what KISS is and hate what The Buzz here in Houston has become. You all want KISS to sound more like The Buzz, I'd rather see The Buzz take a page out of 99-5's book and play the music that put the original 107-5 The Buzz on Houston's map.

Most of you know I make many trips to S.A. throughout the year, so I have a pretty good grasp on the S.A. dial and prefer it to Houston's any day. My God, you've still got a country music station on the heritage 68 KKYX. If it were in Houston, it would have been brokered out years ago. You've still got the legendary K-Zep on the FM dial, and before you say it's now on a little 250 translator that only covers inside of 410, have you been to H-town to hear the replacement for our legendary rock station, KLOL? Neither have we. Be thankful for what you've still got on the radio dial, San Antonians.

After all, it could be worse.
 
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I think it has a lot more to do with boredom of one's own market offerings than the stations being as bad as we tend to claim. Case in point, San Antonio posters complain that KISS is stuck in the 90s and needs to go more alternative, but I absolutely love what KISS is and hate what The Buzz here in Houston has become. You all want KISS to sound more like The Buzz, I'd rather see The Buzz take a page out of 99-5's book and play the music that put the original 107-5 The Buzz on Houston's map.

Most of you know I make many trips to S.A. throughout the year, so I have a pretty good grasp on the S.A. dial and prefer it to Houston's any day. My God, you've still got a country music station on the heritage 68 KKYX. If it were in Houston, it would have been brokered out years ago. You've still got the legendary K-Zep on the FM dial, and before you say it's now on a little 250 translator that only covers inside of 410, have you been to H-town to hear the replacement for our legendary rock station, KLOL? Neither have we. Be thankful for what you've still got on the radio dial, San Antonians.

After all, it could be worse.
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I agree. I believe SA has some great stations.
 
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