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Radio One Acquires Cox Houston

rosecitymedia said:
Ironic, right? 97.1 in Cleveland was built to compliment the short comings of then KRTS 92.1. Here we are some 30 years later, and there's talk of them being divested together.

I'm going to throw a wild card in here. Urban One may just unload the Senior Road signal with either KROI or KTHT. I suspect there is another shoe to drop down there, and this might very well tie in with the rumblings of EMF entering the Houston market. They certainly have the money to purchase 93Q, and as evidenced by the sudden purchase of Star 102.5 in Buffalo, it doesn't matter if the station is currently successful and carrying a long entrenched format.
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EMF just changed CEOs and from what I understand, anything that's going to cost more than a million dollars is off the table for them at the moment. So much for them moving into Houston.
 
rosecitymedia said:
If Leon Hunt were able, he'd likely be jumping for joy, too, as KMVL and KIVY would also stand to benefit from the demise. I'd bet Stephen Yates won't be heartbroken down in Lufkin either.
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How is Leon these days? It's been years since I've talked to him face to face... Every time I drive through Madisonville on i-45 I thought about stopping off but I figured he wouldn't at the studios on the weekend.
 
ContinuousWave said:
How is Leon these days? It's been years since I've talked to him face to face... Every time I drive through Madisonville on i-45 I thought about stopping off but I figured he wouldn't at the studios on the weekend.
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Last we spoke, he was doing alright. I am sure he'd appreciate the visit from you when you're up that way again.
 
ContinuousWave said:
No the tower is west of Shepherd which is not Liberty County. It's a rimshot..
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Yes indeed, right off Farm to Market 222, just south of the lake. @HTX if you're coming up US 59, from Houston, look to your left directly out your driver's window between Shepherd and Goodrich. There will be a tower around 1900 feet reaching up into the heavens. That is from where the Country Legends emanate. It is a rimshot to Houston, albeit, a rather good one.
 
rosecitymedia said:
Yes indeed, right off Farm to Market 222, just south of the lake. @HTX if you're coming up US 59, from Houston, look to your left directly out your driver's window between Shepherd and Goodrich. There will be a tower around 1900 feet reaching up into the heavens. That is from where the Country Legends emanate. It is a rimshot to Houston, albeit, a rather good one.
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I’ve seen both towers for KTHT and KHPT
 
On The Eagle I heard something like “Don’t Google 106.9 & 107.5 The Eagle”. I wonder if that’s because of the sale.
 
Maybe this is just a coincidence but 92.9s morning show are talking about their new phone number for the show. I wonder if the Purchase has anything to do with it.
 
stan said:
Is it still a Houston area code? 😀
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346-295-9393, so it's the "new" Houston area code, but the number is actually located in Arcola, which is coincidentally pretty close to Senior Road. Since the previous number wasn't a choke line, it wouldn't have been hard to port their previous number from Cox's Level3 SIP trunk into Urban One's Bandwidth.com SIP trunk, though.
 
tb_ said:
346-295-9393, so it's the "new" Houston area code, but the number is actually located in Arcola, which is coincidentally pretty close to Senior Road. Since the previous number wasn't a choke line, it wouldn't have been hard to port their previous number from Cox's Level3 SIP trunk into Urban One's Bandwidth.com SIP trunk, though.
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The choke lines are almost impossible to move to SIP trunks anyway... That's why a lot of stations are dropping the 713-390 request lines..
 
Mediafrog+ said:
The 346 area code went into operation in 2014, so not really new. Houston is a rare example of four overlay area codes (713/281/832/346).

We might be getting a fifth area code in the next two or three years: Sorry, 713 Day: Houston's growth will lead to new area code

Of course the outer reaches of Houston metro also have 409, 936 and 979.
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It's "new" in the same way that KKBQ is "The New" 93Q! ;)

The multi-overlay always baffled me when moving here... where I am from in Illinois, the area codes were segregated a bit better. As did the "extended metro" calling on landline services... but it was pretty cool that we could call from Conroe to Galveston for no extra long-distance cost.
 
tb_ said:
The multi-overlay always baffled me when moving here... where I am from in Illinois, the area codes were segregated a bit better.
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Not anymore. NANPA's standard policy is now to overlay all area codes needing relief. I'd guess the reasons would be that most people are used to 10-digit dialing, which wouldn't be prevented very often by passing through three area codes from downtown to the suburbs anyway, and businesses complaining about constantly having to change their advertisements and business cards.

I remember when all the Houston and Austin radio stations had their request/contest lines starting with "390." "Call 390-5-K98!" "Requests and dedications all night long on Majic 95.5 KKMJ. If there's anything I can play for you, call 390-KKMJ."

San Antonio was "470," and DFW was "787," though I think Dallas might've had a couple of 263's. From what I was always told from my time working for the phone company, that was to make sure, if any circuits got blown during a contest, it would only be the radio stations' circuit so everyone else could otherwise make emergency calls. Not sure how well that worked in the real world, though, as I can remember hearing a person or two died in Dallas in the early 90's when they couldn't get through to 911 because too many people were trying to call in and buy Garth Brooks concert tickets. Also seems like the entire system in Amarillo blew when KGNC 97.9 had a contest the first week of summer break, though I don't know if Amarillo had a single circuit for radio stations at the time. I suspect that's not the problem it once was now that most people aren't on the public switching network.
 
Kent said:
Not anymore. NANPA's standard policy is now to overlay all area codes needing relief. I'd guess the reasons would be that most people are used to 10-digit dialing, which wouldn't be prevented very often by passing through three area codes from downtown to the suburbs anyway, and businesses complaining about constantly having to change their advertisements and business cards.

I remember when all the Houston and Austin radio stations had their request/contest lines starting with "390." "Call 390-5-K98!" "Requests and dedications all night long on Majic 95.5 KKMJ. If there's anything I can play for you, call 390-KKMJ."

San Antonio was "470," and DFW was "787," though I think Dallas might've had a couple of 263's. From what I was always told from my time working for the phone company, that was to make sure, if any circuits got blown during a contest, it would only be the radio stations' circuit so everyone else could otherwise make emergency calls. Not sure how well that worked in the real world, though, as I can remember hearing a person or two died in Dallas in the early 90's when they couldn't get through to 911 because too many people were trying to call in and buy Garth Brooks concert tickets. Also seems like the entire system in Amarillo blew when KGNC 97.9 had a contest the first week of summer break, though I don't know if Amarillo had a single circuit for radio stations at the time. I suspect that's not the problem it once was now that most people aren't on the public switching network.
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They call them "Choke" lines/circuits for high volume users like radio stations once we're.
 
Kent said:
Not anymore. NANPA's standard policy is now to overlay all area codes needing relief. I'd guess the reasons would be that most people are used to 10-digit dialing, which wouldn't be prevented very often by passing through three area codes from downtown to the suburbs anyway, and businesses complaining about constantly having to change their advertisements and business cards.

I remember when all the Houston and Austin radio stations had their request/contest lines starting with "390." "Call 390-5-K98!" "Requests and dedications all night long on Majic 95.5 KKMJ. If there's anything I can play for you, call 390-KKMJ."

San Antonio was "470," and DFW was "787," though I think Dallas might've had a couple of 263's. From what I was always told from my time working for the phone company, that was to make sure, if any circuits got blown during a contest, it would only be the radio stations' circuit so everyone else could otherwise make emergency calls. Not sure how well that worked in the real world, though, as I can remember hearing a person or two died in Dallas in the early 90's when they couldn't get through to 911 because too many people were trying to call in and buy Garth Brooks concert tickets. Also seems like the entire system in Amarillo blew when KGNC 97.9 had a contest the first week of summer break, though I don't know if Amarillo had a single circuit for radio stations at the time. I suspect that's not the problem it once was now that most people aren't on the public switching network.
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Kansas City was 576-7xxx in both area codes (816 and 913). During my time in Kansas City, there was still seven-digit dialing across the area-code boundary, i.e. the state line. WDAF radio had 576-7000.

St. Louis had 969, allowing KPNT to advertise its studio line on the air as WOW-DUDE.
 
tb_ said:
It's "new" in the same way that KKBQ is "The New" 93Q! ;)

The multi-overlay always baffled me when moving here... where I am from in Illinois, the area codes were segregated a bit better. As did the "extended metro" calling on landline services... but it was pretty cool that we could call from Conroe to Galveston for no extra long-distance cost.
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It's all way after my time in Houston, which was just after the 713-409 geographic split. If I recall correctly, neither Conroe nor Galveston (both 409) were in the main EAS zone at the time.

KTRH was in the heart of the Montrose, where most of the landline numbers started with "52" (Jackson), though its own PBX switch was 630-3xxx. KLOL across the hall had a choke line but KTRH instead had several Jackson phone numbers ending in 5874 (KTRH), including one connected to a SW Bell-provided answering machine that was built like a tank. (Why do I remember these things?)
 
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