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Sports Radio returns to the RGV

Boo! It was a good oldies station with a nice signal (though fed by satellite).
 
Scholarm1111 said:
Boo! It was a good oldies station with a nice signal (though fed by satellite).
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With as a good of a signal as it has, the signal in the McAllen area sucks. And it is part of the market it's supposed to be serving.
 
Double boo! Get ready for XEPE and KBGG to trick with said format (but different networks, both ESPN). I could always ID KVNS due to their oldies format at night.

-crainbebo
 
radiodog2 said:
Scholarm1111 said:
Boo! It was a good oldies station with a nice signal (though fed by satellite).
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With as a good of a signal as it has, the signal in the McAllen area sucks. And it is part of the market it's supposed to be serving.
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The music-on-AM novelty of KVNS was cool, but the signal was not what it needed to be to play music on AM. In the Rio Grande City/Roma area (granted, out of the diary area), the signal was non-existant, and in McAllen, it often sounded like bands were playing underwater. I was just thinking the other day how much longer this station could last... and I suppose that question is now answered.

This does leave a niche for classic hits in the Rio Grande Valley... just in time for Winter Texans, who also lost the classic country of 102.1 KBUC last year. I've said it before, but 101.1 is the perfect signal to do some type of classic hits/classic rock for the lower Valley -- areas that 104.9 KJAV and 105.5 KQXX don't reach. And it's not like Jose is exactly setting the ratings world on fire...
 
Still running oldies early morning Sept. 12. Very good signal into Houston, but some deep fades.

The skywave signal of KVNS has always been amazing. The station has been received in Western Australia, over 10,000 miles away.

What satellite service does KVNS use? Nice mix of 60's-70's tunes, with virtually no clunkers.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
The skywave signal of KVNS has always been amazing. The station has been received in Western Australia, over 10,000 miles away.
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Yet you can't always get it reliably in McAllen!

There's something about AM in the RGV. When I was at KRGV, our AM's night pattern was an inverted "V" with the left leg covering the tip of Baja California! And yes, we did get reception reports from Australia as well. KGBT AM has been heard reliably in South America, IIRC.
 
Another station CC will mess up?? Come on. I enjoyed listening to this station at night :(
 
Well, that sucks. Its off my presets as soon as they flip. Too bad, it was one of the only oldies stations you could get in Houston.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
Well, that sucks. Its off my presets as soon as they flip. Too bad, it was one of the only oldies stations you could get in Houston.
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My favorites down in Houston are 107.5 and 107.5 HD-2 for classic hits.
 
Oh great no more dx'ing that on my front porch in San Antonio! Thanks CC for killing a great station AM 1700 in which I listened to more than your competitor Cox's KONO, If it wasn't for KLBJ-AM stuff like the Clark Howard Show, I would probably break the tuning knob AM/FM Local, DX off my Walkman and leave it on DX FM.
 
Great another great station killed by CC, just like KVET FM, 1700 KVNS is ruined.
 
It was always nice to hear KVNS at night here in Tampa and what made it even more special was the oldies format which reminded me of when I first started DXing AM radio in the early 70s.

KVNS overpowers the much closer WJCC much of the time here too.

It's real sad to hear about the format switch.
 
While it is nice to DX a signal, some of us mourn the loss of a station that missed an opportunity to serve the Lower Rio Grande Valley with its solid local signal. I had the honor of working at KBOR 1600 in Brownsville back when it was a full service station. It was never a ratings winner. But it was also never shy about using its voice to help countless groups beyond its target demo. To me, that's what broadcasting is all about.
 
The flip isn't supposed to happen until Sept. 17th.

I am still hoping KVET flips to oldies AM or FM.

Question wasn't this format (sports) tried before on this frequency AM 1700?
 
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