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RGV Ratings

S

Smittian

1. (tie) KBFM 9.6
1. (tie) KTEX 9.6
3. KGBT 8.6
4. KESO/XHRR (La Ley) 7.3
5. KFRQ 6.6
6. KBTQ 5.5
7. KKPS 5.2
8. XAVO 4.3
9. KURV-AM 3.7
9. KVLY 3.7


Observations............

Wild 104 is becoming Mild 104. They have virtually no competition in the CHR format and yet they continue to drop like a rock

KTEX does a yo-yo (9.6 to 5.8 and back to 9.6)

La Ley does well. Seems to be popular among the older Spanish-speaking crowd. Also you can hear it in pretty much any Mexican restaurant in the RGV

Q-94.5 takes another move upward. Who said Rock is dead?

KURV took a nice jump upward. If Hurricane Dolly would have hit during this book, they'd be #1

KVLY continues to fall. Funny thing is that Hot Kiss isn't gaining on them.

KRGE, an AM Spanish Religious station finishes just out of the top 10

The 2 "Jack" stations had a nice debut. KZSP flipped to Jack just before the book, so I expect these numbers to go up next time. This may be where KVLY and Hot Kiss's listeners are going?

KBUC does pretty good for being a satellite Country station with a marginal signal from a tower located 10 miles N of Raymondville. Why BMP doesn't move the tower is beyond me.


Just my thoughts.....................................
 
My gosh, who'd have thought that KRGE would ever have ratings again? If they're in the top 10, that's as high as they were when they were KRGV/MagicRGV 30 years ago! ;D
 
I was in the Valley recently and listened to KBFM. Strange station. Although I did like that 10 Jay Z songs they played in a row round lunchtime. Do they always do that? Or was that a one time thing? Playing some sort of lunchhour "hour" of just one artist back to back to back to back would get watered down eventually.
 
La Ley is giving Univision a run for their listeners.

KBFM, last time I was in the valley, I didn't know if this station was a reggeaton station, or a Hip-Hop Station. But I guess it makes snese to play that since it is The Valley.

I have always seemed shock that KFRQ has never done so good on the 12+ number

Que Pasa 99.5; all I have to say is, Que Pasa? Go back to Tejano and stay out of the Regional Mexican Music. Ever since they started playing 50/50 Tejano and Regional Mexican, it seems as if they went down the drain. The combo doesn't seem to work.
 
MINDonDAradio247 said:
I was in the Valley recently and listened to KBFM. Strange station. Although I did like that 10 Jay Z songs they played in a row round lunchtime. Do they always do that? Or was that a one time thing? Playing some sort of lunchhour "hour" of just one artist back to back to back to back would get watered down eventually.
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For many years, sister station KTEX has featured the "George Strait Hour" at 2 PM every Friday. All these years later, it's still very popular. I believe the person who started that tradition roams these boards on occasion :)
 
Smittian said:
KBUC does pretty good for being a satellite Country station with a marginal signal from a tower located 10 miles N of Raymondville. Why BMP doesn't move the tower is beyond me.
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Monterrey has a 100kw non-comm on 102.1. I believe there's also an allocation for 101.9 in Matamoros or Valle Hermoso. KBUC can't send too much more signal south of the border.
 
Hey Willis, you seem to know a whole lot about Mexican Radio Stations and their status. How do you know all this information. I have endlessly tried to look up a webpage (something similar to Radio Locator or in that field), but no luck. The only helpful thing that I have found is Fred Cantu's listings of Mexican Radio Stations (which is very nice by the way). But when it comes to power and HAAT, nothing. Even the Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes doesn't have a formal search feature that will allow you to look up owners, power, and location. Any suggestions?
 
IIRC from my days down there, all the FMs are limited to 100K and the AMs to 50k daytime, less than that nighttime. Or am I wrong? I know the old border blasters are long gone!
 
It shure will, thanks. I was looking at the TV PDF, and it lacks translators, but it won't matter as I was interested in the FM only.
 
The Mexican database will require you to pull out the atlas from time to time. They file the stations by transmitter site instead of community of license so you end up with big major market stations licensed to unfamiliar towns. Some stations in Monterrey are licensed to Escodebo , Guadalupe and Garza Garcia and some stations in Guadalajara are listed under Tlaquepaque and Zapopan.
 
i agree about mild 104... they need someone to compete with the music they play is wack when did katy perry become a rapper? its a catchy song but it doesnt belong on a "hip hop" station thats my opinion. I do like the 1 o clock viaje where they play one artist for an hour.
 
Speaking of the RGV, I have always wondered why the KGBT 98.5 TOH ID always starts with Harlingen when it is licensed to McAllen. Isn't that illegally id'ing themselves?
 
IIRC the rules were loosened a while back so that stations could use just about any city within their market, as long as the city of license was included. When I worked at KRGV-TV we were licensed to Weslaco, but had IDs such as McAllen-Brownsville-Weslaco, Harlingen-McAllen-Weslaco, etc.

The KGBT call is tied with Harlingen for about a thousand years, so they'll naturally want to use their "heritage" city as part of their call.
 
mmnassour said:
IIRC the rules were loosened a while back so that stations could use just about any city within their market, as long as the city of license was included.
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Untrue. The rules in the Federal Register, last revised in 2004, state as follows:

(1) Official station identification shall consist of
the station's call letters immediately followed by the community or
communities specified in its license as the station's location:
Provided, That the name of the licensee or the station's frequency or
channel number, or both, as stated on the station's license may be
inserted between the call letters and station location. No other
insertion is permissible.
(2) A station may include in its official station identification the
name of any additional community or communities, but the community to
which the station is licensed must be named first.

(The rule section is part 73.1201.) In other words, the station's community of license MUST follow the call letters, though the frequency and/or licensee names can be inserted between the two. Those are the only insertions permissible. If KGBT-FM is saying, "KGBT-FM Harlingen," it's in violation of the station identification rules.

When I worked at KRGV-TV we were licensed to Weslaco, but had IDs such as McAllen-Brownsville-Weslaco, Harlingen-McAllen-Weslaco, etc.
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I've been told the rules are different for TV stations if they choose to ID visually. However, I can't confirm this as I've never worked in TV.

The KGBT call is tied with Harlingen for about a thousand years, so they'll naturally want to use their "heritage" city as part of their call.
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KGBT 1530 must ID with "Harlingen," but the FM can't legally. Of course, the FCC isn't likely to enforce the rule anytime soon. Stations have gotten away with ID'ing at :50, or even earlier, for quite some time. That's technically not permissible unless there's no other chance to broadcast the legal ID, and breaking up a 30 minute music sweep doesn't count.
 
You're right, that's the TV side I was thinking of. And for that matter, now that I remember, "Weslaco" was first on those IDs. Of course, given the Valley's location, "minor" things like legal IDs can occasionally slide.....

It truly is a different world there. I remember one station having a consultant come in a while back and do a top to bottom review. The first line of the consultant's report was...."The General Manager should find another line of work."
 
Oddest valley station idea was the orginal XHRIO-TV which visually IDed as ''XRIO-TV Matamoros-McAllen''
but on the audio the announcer properly ID'd the station in spanish as ''X H R I O Canal 2 Matamoros.''
 
XHRIO is the strangest station I've ever seen.

That thing signed on back in 1979, with a "studio" in McAllen and a transmitter at Rio Bravo, Tamps. There was NO studio-transmitter link, the owner instead recorded programming on 3/4" tape and bicycled it across the river at Progreso for playback! It hired a good friend of mine away from KRGV to do newsbreaks for them and that, well, it wasn't completely effective.

Then it went through a number of phases, first Spanish only, then Fox, then Spanish again, now it's back to Fox, I think?

And all along, there's been the issue of the mangled call signs.

Yes, it is of course, XHRIO. But it's always referred to itself as X-RIO. That call came from the first owner who also owned KRIO 910 AM, once upon a time a tremendous Top 40 station in McAllen. Charlie Trubb (the owner) couldn't get a license for a US station so he went to Mexico City and managed to grease enough palms to get an old Channel 2 license for Matamoros assigned. Then he begged the FCC for an STL and they told him to go jump in the lake, or perhaps, the Laguna Madre ;D. And therefore, the story of the taped programming sent from McAllen to Rio Bravo.

Indeed, the old TV building is still there, back behind what was Frank Smith Toyota on business 83. That building housed both KRIO and X(H)RIO. Too bad, he poured a lot of money down that tube. But Charlie was a promoter, not a broadcaster. And he hurt a lot of good people along the way.

Oops, sorry, apologies for the topic drift. Maybe this should be over in Texas TV! :D
 
Then it went through a number of phases, first Spanish only, then Fox, then Spanish again, now it's back to Fox, I think?
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Actually this is the first time XHRIO has been a Fox Affiliate. You might be confusing it with XHFOX Ch 17 which the RGV's Fox Affiliate from 1994-2002. XHRIO was an affiliate of UPN from 1999-2002(?) and became a Fox Affilate in 2005.
 
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