This station isn’t going to last long because Lonestar 92.5 is starting to play songs The Eagle is playing currently more 90’s alternative and more hard rock stuff like Danzig, Live, Bush, Nickelback etc.
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Aren't both of these stations owned by IHeart? In any case, whether one or the other station changes formats will be determined by how the advertisers react to both the stations and their formats.
Which Danzig song(s) are they playing?
IHeart has overlapping rock and classic rock outlets in other markets (KGB-FM/KIOZ San Diego, KRFX/KBPI Denver, WRKH/WTKX Mobile-Pensacola, …).
If they are making money with each station, and they don’t see a project a better ROI in flipping one, it will be the status quo.
Audacy is running KSPF and KJKK with significant overlap as is Cumulus with two country stations.
If they are making money with each station, and they don’t see a project a better ROI in flipping one, it will be the status quo.
Audacy is running KSPF and KJKK with significant overlap as is Cumulus with two country stations.
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IHeart pretty much built a whole Wall of Rock in Denver. They also own KTCL (alt. rock) and KBCO (AAA).
Off the top of my head, Cumulus has KQRS and KXXR in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Saga has WKLH and WHQG in Milwaukee,
Cumulus also owns competing country stations in Nashville and Des Moines.
Are they trying to bring back radio wars?
Despite all the Cumulus stations being de-listed from the publicly published Nielsen results, KEGL could only muster a 23rd place showing in the January survey.
It takes real talent to produce such a terrible showing in the ratings for a ROCK station on a flamethrowing signal!
I'd love to know the thought process of the people calling the programming shots. I don't understand why the station just didn't flip to an All Sports format instead of doing the goofy "Freak" experiment.
It takes real talent to produce such a terrible showing in the ratings for a ROCK station on a flamethrowing signal!
I'd love to know the thought process of the people calling the programming shots. I don't understand why the station just didn't flip to an All Sports format instead of doing the goofy "Freak" experiment.
they should had just migrated the format of 1190 AM to FM so that way it can air on a much better signal and IHeart could rid themselves a bad AM station and maybe opt to hand the license back to the FCC and shut it down, and let's be honest, most of North Texas rock fans have either moved on to Sirius XM, streaming or Alt 103.7 and it's clear 97.1 The Eagle as a rock station is a failure a 3rd time, thanks the the Nexstar/TEGNA merger being approved and now closed, i give it a few months before IHeart buys out now double bankrupted Cumulus and grows their cluster bigger under the new reduction of the market cap and just say F it and moves the Dying Eagle and KEGL calls to 93.3 or 96.7 and puts either The Ticket or WBAP's FM Simulcast on 97.1 post merger if it was to ever happen.
They were never going to beat The Fan and The Ticket. Their only avenue they felt was being hot talk/sports.
No need to defeat them right away, and with time, I think Sports on 97.1 could've made life challenging for either of those other brands.
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Will, first off, a tip of the hat towards you and yours, and to the lovely town of Campbell.
This has got to be one of the most ridiculous ideas from a member of the listening audience, Top 5 all-time, at least, that I have ever read on a thread here, and I've been around for a good while.
What, exactly, would you be accomplishing? You'd strip the only viable format option available for 1190 in giving it a shot at being sellable and generating enough cash flow to justify its continued operation, because what else can you somewhat successfully program as a format on it, besides conservative talk?
Then, you're taking 1190's meager share of the market and moving it to a 100kW Cedar Hill FM. That's better than the current status quo how? The Eagle needs a fix or a detonator, we know that, and I'll say it to you in a fellow Texan's own little way, but your solution to the problem would be the equivalent of wheeling in a beat down, fixer-upper of a single wide trailer on to the vacant lot that the double-wide with the redwood deck burned down on a few years back.
Most of DFW's ever-aging rock fans, of whom there are getting fewer and fewer, are tuned into KZPS.
I had to put on my glasses to make sure I was reading this right. Didn't help a bit. Will, it may be time to try a brand with less alcohol content, partner.
The Cumulus bankruptcy this time is pre-planned. They have financing in place to take the company private. A lot of current shareholders will get zero out of the deal too. I don't see iHeart going after this company and I don't think they want to sell.
OK, Gopher.
You think The Ticket, with an FM whose TX site is ~60 miles from downtown Dallas + a crappy AM signal, would be able to hold a candle to a 100 kW blowtorch owned by iHM?
KRLD-FM has already made impressive inroads against KTCK.
I think Sports on 97.1, if executed properly, could be capable of delivering the knockout blow.
But, hey, perhaps it is more sensible to pretend a low rated Rock station that gets its clock cleaned in male demos by all the sports stations in the market and by the crosstown Alternative station is somehow the "highest and best" use of 97.1.
You think The Ticket, with an FM whose TX site is ~60 miles from downtown Dallas + a crappy AM signal, would be able to hold a candle to a 100 kW blowtorch owned by iHM?
KRLD-FM has already made impressive inroads against KTCK.
I think Sports on 97.1, if executed properly, could be capable of delivering the knockout blow.
But, hey, perhaps it is more sensible to pretend a low rated Rock station that gets its clock cleaned in male demos by all the sports stations in the market and by the crosstown Alternative station is somehow the "highest and best" use of 97.1.
But they kinda sorta tried that with The Freak. I do not see them spending the capital it would take to try sports again…
As the Ticket has proven over the years, content is sometimes greater than signal strength. Yes, 105.3 has challenged KTCK on numerous occasions, but that usually corresponds to whatever team they are the flagship for is doing well in this town of frontrunner fans at the moment.
If 97.1 was waiting for Dan and Jake to save the day, that ship sailed, and all was lost.
I would love to see The Eagle return to the glory days of KZEW, Q102, or its former self, but given the state of rock over the last 25 years, is that possible, and would it sell?
You mean the entire purpose of this site?