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Street closure in houston lol

To me it sounds like The Original LA CALLE format playing lots of Tropical music. La Calle had lost its format and was slowly becoming another Mega/LATINOMIX format. Rumba has brought back the Tropical format.
 
I didn’t listen long enough yesterday to say how long 92.5 was off the air. But today It has been of air all day
 
Mrtejano said:
And also 105.3 FM
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The old saying "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it..." comes to mind. I took a gander at their Facebook page with Google translate and their posts aren't garnering many replies. Their top post yesterday only had 50 replies (many of which seemed to be from the same users over and over again). If they were truly off the air, you'd figure they'd have more than 50 posts asking about their technical issues. Kind of concerning for the current state of radio.
 
Mrtejano said:
I didn’t listen long enough yesterday to say how long 92.5 was off the air. But today It has been of air all day
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I was hearing dead air on K223CW 92.5 on Friday, and the transmitter has been completely off yesterday and today. Hearing presumed KCOL in its place. However "parent" station KJOZ 880 is still going.

While 92.5 is off the air, it might give us a chance to hear either KHGF on the northside, or KJJG to the south. Both LPFMs are usually severely limited by the translator, which is apparently running nondirectional, instead of its licensed directional beam oriented to the west of downtown.

While on the subject, K222CX 92.3 (KYOK translator) has been running dead air for at least three days now. Parent AM 1140 still on the air.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
While on the subject, K222CX 92.3 (KYOK translator) has been running dead air for at least three days now. Parent AM 1140 still on the air.
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If the owners don't realize they're having technical difficulties, you think they have much of an audience to begin with? It's bad enough nobody has complained (at least that's my guess since it hasn't been fixed), but for the owners themselves to not realize there is something is wrong is quite alarming. Do they even consume their own product? I think situations like these are signs that radio, in its current iteration, is close to becoming completely obsolete and irrelevant to consumers. (Me personally, I've shifted to 100% OTT content).

And it's not just translators seeing these types of issues. Last year, KQQK spent almost an entire month with choppy audio. And before that KQBU spent several months with terrible audio quality (sounded like AM on FM). Univision actually went through a format change and no one noticed the audio quality through the entire ordeal.

When consumers aren't pressing the broadcasters to fix their audio issues, is it ok to question if the listeners are even there anymore? Are listeners even listening to the content? (or dare I say, the actual advertisements that pay the bills?).

Just my 2¢.
 
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