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Star 810- Christian Hits

so cc finally kills off R&B in san antonio after shoving it on a crappy AM signal......congrats, I have ABSOLUTLEY no respect for San Antonio radio anymore for failure to give us an R&B outlet cause all we have now is hip hop bulls**t. thank you very much, now I am really looking forward to moving to Houston.
 
Why are you blaming Clear Channel? There just wasn't a big enough audience for a full R&B station. Besides, CC never owned 810 KSJL.

New Call Letters- KYTY 810.
 
sdh483 said:
so cc finally kills off R&B in san antonio after shoving it on a crappy AM signal......congrats, I have ABSOLUTLEY no respect for San Antonio radio anymore for failure to give us an R&B outlet cause all we have now is hip hop bulls**t. thank you very much, now I am really looking forward to moving to Houston.
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Clear Channel no longer controls AM 810. Maranatha Broadcasting owns and operates it. This move has been expected. However, I do blame them for killing the R&B back in the late 90's, when they flipped then KSJL-FM at 96.1 to KXXM Mix 96.1. Infinity ought to ditch the "Jack" format on the old KTFM (102.7 FM) and make it Urban AC or Cox should flip 106.7. San Antonio's Black Community needs a voice. And not just Joyner and ABC's The Touch satellite radio.

Word to the wise though, lose Joyner. Go with Steve Harvey's morning show, if you're going to go the syndie route. The show is much better and funnier.

And, take it from someone who lives in Houston, and misses my hometown BADLY. Don't move here just for the radio stations, you'll be disappointed. I've been homesick for years, and I have tried to move back, but can't find a job now. Just get XM or Sirius, or listen to radio stations on-line. I'm sure someone sooner or later, will figure it out and put an R&B station on there again.
 
saradio1 said:
Is Maranatha Broadcasting the same company that owns stations out in Colorado?
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They do own some stations in Grand Junction, Colorado, but I see they also own some properties in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. They also own WFMZ-TV in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The only thing I'm not sure of, is if it is all the same company?! The Maranatha website only lists the Colorado stations. I wonder if there is more than one Maranatha Broadcasting Company? ???
 
From reviewing the FCC records, KSJL/KYTY's owner is not the same as the Maranatha Broadcasting that owns Grand Junction and Allentown. It look like San Antonio's is a local family operation.
 
Infinity ought to ditch the "Jack" format on the old KTFM (102.7 FM) and make it Urban AC or Cox should flip 106.7.
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Infinity is now CBS Radio and they no longer own Jack. If you're going to attack anyone and everyone...get it right.
 
marko83 said:
Infinity ought to ditch the "Jack" format on the old KTFM (102.7 FM) and make it Urban AC or Cox should flip 106.7.
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Infinity is now CBS Radio and they no longer own Jack. If you're going to attack anyone and everyone...get it right.
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Umm, wasn't attacking anyone... just making an observation. Didn't mean to step on any shoes. I didn't hear that CBS Radio sold "Jack" and KTSA. Who the hell did I attack besides CC for ruining KSJL?!
 
If SA were to get another Urban AC, where would they put it? Nothing would be successful unless the signal has good coverage into downtown and the east side of SA. Maybe it is time for one the many fringe stations to move closer to town. Sad to say, that the worst case and probable scenerio would be to put it on another AM in the market. SA is too big to be without urban, they got Standards back, and I would guess that there is not much of a market for it there. In Houston, where I am located, we need a standard station, and another urban AC, but I guess we shouldn't be greedy in asking for that when those, like the Alamo City, have none.
 
I would think 98.5 would put a Urban AC on HD-2 or HD-3 would work great, with a great city grade coverage...
 
jras20 said:
I would think 98.5 would put a Urban AC on HD-2 or HD-3 would work great, with a great city grade coverage...
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You have to remember that Univision owns 98.5. When it came on the air, it was not geared toward the African-American community (it still isn't). It's geared toward the 12+ Hispanic audience and any other numbers/demos they get, is a bonus.

They are not going to do a station geared toward an African-American audience. I think it's a good idea. I just don't see it happening. Eventually, one of these companies will have a struggling format, they'll survey the market, and see that UAC is missing, and that there is a large enough African-American audience and enough Hispanics, Whites, and Others who will support that format, and they'll flip to that. In the meantime, you either have to listen on the internet, get you an Ipod (as many have suggested) or upgrade to XM or Sirius (I recommend XM, the Urban choices are better).
 
snoman said:
You have to remember that Univision owns 98.5. When it came on the air, it was not geared toward the African-American community (it still isn't). It's geared toward the 12+ Hispanic audience and any other numbers/demos they get, is a bonus.

They are not going to do a station geared toward an African-American audience. I think it's a good idea. I just don't see it happening. Eventually, one of these companies will have a struggling format, they'll survey the market, and see that UAC is missing, and that there is a large enough African-American audience and enough Hispanics, Whites, and Others who will support that format, and they'll flip to that. In the meantime, you either have to listen on the internet, get you an Ipod (as many have suggested) or upgrade to XM or Sirius (I recommend XM, the Urban choices are better).
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With Jammin' 94.1 in the market, I think it would be hard for an outsider to conclude that UAC is underserved.
 
daypart said:
snoman said:
You have to remember that Univision owns 98.5. When it came on the air, it was not geared toward the African-American community (it still isn't). It's geared toward the 12+ Hispanic audience and any other numbers/demos they get, is a bonus.

They are not going to do a station geared toward an African-American audience. I think it's a good idea. I just don't see it happening. Eventually, one of these companies will have a struggling format, they'll survey the market, and see that UAC is missing, and that there is a large enough African-American audience and enough Hispanics, Whites, and Others who will support that format, and they'll flip to that. In the meantime, you either have to listen on the internet, get you an Ipod (as many have suggested) or upgrade to XM or Sirius (I recommend XM, the Urban choices are better).
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With Jammin' 94.1 in the market, I think it would be hard for an outsider to conclude that UAC is underserved.
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"outsider?" I hope you weren't suggesting me. San Antonio is my hometown. I'm there quite often. And, Jammin' 94.1 is not UAC. It serves a portion of the UAC audience, but they don't play any currents, New Jack Swing, even any R&B from the 90's. Last time I was home, they were playing mostly disco and Motown. Not exactly your typical UAC station.
 
"outsider?" I hope you weren't suggesting me. San Antonio is my hometown. I'm there quite often. And, Jammin' 94.1 is not UAC. It serves a portion of the UAC audience, but they don't play any currents, New Jack Swing, even any R&B from the 90's. Last time I was home, they were playing mostly disco and Motown. Not exactly your typical UAC station.
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No, I didn't mean you at all. I mean the suit-wearing outsiders at corporate HQs who pore over spreadsheets and ratings books to make decisions about what format fits into a market several states away that they may have never visited.

Jammin' is definitely not a traditional Jammin' Oldies station, but since that's what it's listed as, it will be seen by the aforementioned outsiders to be serving a chunk of the 25-54 African-American audience. It wouldn't take a very long sample of the station to figure out that it's not really designed to target that segment of the market at all.
 
daypart said:
"outsider?" I hope you weren't suggesting me. San Antonio is my hometown. I'm there quite often. And, Jammin' 94.1 is not UAC. It serves a portion of the UAC audience, but they don't play any currents, New Jack Swing, even any R&B from the 90's. Last time I was home, they were playing mostly disco and Motown. Not exactly your typical UAC station.
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No, I didn't mean you at all. I mean the suit-wearing outsiders at corporate HQs who pore over spreadsheets and ratings books to make decisions about what format fits into a market several states away that they may have never visited.

Jammin' is definitely not a traditional Jammin' Oldies station, but since that's what it's listed as, it will be seen by the aforementioned outsiders to be serving a chunk of the 25-54 African-American audience. It wouldn't take a very long sample of the station to figure out that it's not really designed to target that segment of the market at all.
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Thanks. :) And, agreed.
 
time to morph jammin into an urban ac, leave the disco and BeeGess crap to Q101.9, since I hear a lot of disco on there, and the motown to KONO, since I hear a lot of motown there. Morph Magic into a classic chr and put all the 80s dance stuff on there (ie Debbie Deb) and leave the 80s-00s AC to Jack FM. It's time to serve our growing population of DIVERSE peoples, not just the Hispanics. ALL races, ages, sexes, and everything in between needs to be represented in this city. Radio is great because it's free, and it's time to kill the notion that free stuff is usually crap. The radio guys need to wake up and realize that SA is getting more and more diverse and will probably be as big as Houston in 20 years or less.
 
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