Sports Radio returns to the RGV

[radiodog2]

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

They were a News/Talk station back from 2004-2007. That is the meaning of the call letters
K Valley's News Station

 

[Smittian]

As of tonight, it's back to oldies. I don't know what's going on. My apologies on teh premature flip ???

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Looks like Clear Channel's KVNS 1700 will be bringing back Fox Sports Radio to the RGV on Sept. 17th just 2 weeks after R Broadcasting killed it on 840 KVJY.

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/110175/kvns-brownsville-flipping-to-sports

Another slob sports station. Radio is becoming either slob sports, piddle drivel and swill talk radio, foreign language babbling, top-40, country, or bad 80's songs. Another one bites the dust, one less preset on my radio. And radio, in general, gets a bit worse.

 

[jras20]

It was still oldies when I listened last night

 

[rbrucecarter5]

It was still oldies when I listened last night

Its gone - why bother? I've already re-set my presets and moved on to stations that care to commit to formats I find interesting. KVNS get chewed up by that garbage in Dallas, so its not much of a loss. I severely doubt the new format will generate 1/10 the excitement that the oldies did. I am reminded of the old WYLL 1690 era when people all over the country were re-living the glory days of WLS with the music and some of the DJ's from the 60's. Once it dropped oldies, nobody cared about 1690 any more. So it will be with KVNS - the glowing reports from all over the world will abruptly cease because nobody will care about the new sports format. It might sell commercials in the RGV, but it dead as far as anything creative or entertaining goes. Yet another classic station destroyed by unrestrained pursuit of profit.

The office two doors down from me is a for two stations in Houston, KXYZ and KCHN. Both programmed out of New York, both near the bottom in the ratings. If a radio station has no listeners, does it even matter if it is on the air or not? I remember KXYZ when it used to be a fairly decent CCM station in the early 80's. People were enthusiastic about that format. I doubt anybody cares about the present format. Multiply these three examples by 3000 or so, and you have an explanation as to why radio is dying, AM in particular. Just because somebody is willing to pay for a format does not mean anybody will listen. So electricity is wasted, valuable frequencies are wasted, checks flow, and people listen to iPods. A lot of stations alive but on total life support - no brain waves. Only money to keep the electricity on.

Here is an idea to save radio - program formats that people are actually interested in hearing!

 

[jras20]

I don't think them big companies don't seem to care what listeners think any more.

 

[bturner]

To rbrucecarter5, I know about KXYZ and KCHN. They're brokered time. It would sure be nice to toss on a formet we want but the reality is radio has to pull in revenue to stay on the air. You could likely buy a few hours a week on either station and do what you want but you'll need to generate the revenue. Fact is the people on those stations pay to have their programming on these stations. They have worked to get the financial support to pay their bills (advertising). Indeed they have listeners or they'd be doing something else.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Around 1am Friday morning (9/14) KVNS is running Fox Sports, although a half-hour earlier the oldies format was still in place. Either they are testing the new feed or automation is running amok.

If this was the format flip it was little more than a sudden switch from one satellite feed to another.

 

[mmnassour]

Sigh....8:03 a.m. and it's "Help me Rhonda, help, help me Rhonda....."

You can test a feed without putting it on the air, can't you?

And does anyone know what feed KNWS is/was using? It would be nice to have access to it after the sports types take over.