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The Great Houston translator invasion

purpledevil said:
At least once a day. Each of our in room "radio boxes" doubles as an alarm clock.
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Exactly, Purple, but it's not because they want to listen to terrestrial radio, it's because of the alarm function of the radio. No hard feelings, by the way. I think you are a nice guy.

I think all of you (except Joe Donalson) need to get out in the field more. I have been in the homes of many people, and no one is listening to a box radio at home for fun.

I enter a lot of different workplaces, and no one is listening to a box radio. They are listening to Sunny 99.1 on their computer, or iHeart Radio. Or they are listening to Pandora.

Personally, I have a CC Radio. I love listening to terrestrial radio, especially when it comes to Astros Baseball and DX'ing FM stations. But alas, I'm in the minority when it comes to my love for listening to terrestrial radio.
 
The Rimshot said:
Exactly, Purple, but it's not because they want to listen to terrestrial radio, it's because of the alarm function of the radio.
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Some people prefer to wake up to a favorite morning show. Most markets have a number of them.

I think all of you (except Joe Donalson) need to get out in the field more. I have been in the homes of many people, and no one is listening to a box radio at home for fun.
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But when we tell you that we do get out in "the field" you ignore it. When we tell you Nielsen has a quarter million "in the field" meters and diaries every quarter, you ignore it. How much better an analysis of the field can there be than those huge samples and the thousands more individual stations have for their internal proprietary research?

But alas, I'm in the minority when it comes to my love for listening to terrestrial radio.
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93% of all people listen to radio each week. That ain't a minority.
 
I just read this thread. Frank asked The Rimshot to cut it out. Rimshot responded and started again. Then Rimshot blamed us for 'starting it up again'. Your words continue to minimize your level of respect by participating members of this board. I'll reserve my initial personal opinion but will say, I always hope to discover more about such folks because I feel they have some great qualities yet undiscovered.

This sort of reminds me of a former board member: "You might have been in radio for 38 years but you know nothing. Nobody listens to radio because everybody hates the same old songs." He says the station needs to play a mish-mash of Big Band, Old Country, Oldies, Rock, Jazz and Blues. I keep my cool and say can you name one radio station that does this. The answer is no but "all you know is you're corporate radio and corporate radio is wrong". I correct him. I never worked for corporate radio. I suggest I must know what I am doing, having been on air, in programming, sales and management for almost 4 decades and several of those years in a top 10 market. No radio god, but I've managed to get a paycheck. I asked him his radio experience. I was told to get the F out of his house where we were meeting. You see, he had only been in a radio station when he visited me at work. Funny how a person with no clue is the expert and the expert is seemingly pulling off the world's biggest scam, has made millions doing it for decades and the rest of humanity has been too dumb to figure it out until this one guy rolls around. I went through every logical conclusion for hours on end for months but he truly believed the music he just happens to like is identical to what every radio station should be playing and every bit of research is bogus. What do you call that? Mentally ill and I'm not talking a violent type but mentally ill to somehow believe the whole world is wrong but he's the only one that is right. Still, he's a brilliant and smart guy on so many levels. And otherwise a really great friend, or was.
 
I fondly like to refer to the slightly retarded Corp. Media, station owners, etc.
as the "One-eyed Cyclops!" and "???their little dog???" er ah, their little Bean Counters, too!
And someone please tell "HAL 3000" that "Hotel California" is NOT the only hit The Eagles
have had......SAVVY!!
 
Night Hawk said:
I fondly like to refer to the slightly retarded Corp. Media, station owners, etc.
as the "One-eyed Cyclops!" and "???their little dog???" er ah, their little Bean Counters, too!
And someone please tell "HAL 3000" that "Hotel California" is NOT the only hit The Eagles
have had......SAVVY!!
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If a station plays "Hotel" and not other Eagles songs, it's because the others were hits but are not hits today.

Radio is not a museum. Songs that are no longer well liked are not played, no matter how big they once were.
 
DavidEduardo said:


If a station plays "Hotel" and not other Eagles songs, it's because the others were hits but are not hits today.

Radio is not a museum. Songs that are no longer well liked are not played, no matter how big they once were.
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I didn't think The Eagle still spun Hotel California. I haven't heard it in a long, long time. Now, there was a time when 107-5 played it and Stairway to Heaven ad nauseam. You could nearly set your timepiece to it. I'll have to actually sample The Eagle again. With having my own classic rock library always a click away, it's rare for me to dial up 106-9/7-5 these days.
 
To summarize this thread, the radio will not play everything I want to hear. That's why I have an iPhone with my own libraries on it.
 
stan said:
To summarize this thread, the radio will not play everything I want to hear. That's why I have an iPhone with my own libraries on it.
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...or like me, with an old Dell computer hooked to an FM transmitter from Fry's, spinning thousands and thousands of titles in random order. Jack-FM, you have nothing on the purple one's train wreck.

BTW, since I know you are too proud to plug yourself, I'll do it for you.

If you'd like to hear a fantastic take on programming, let Stan know so he can give you the link to his personal offering. You asked for feedback, Stan, and mine's positive. One thing I'll note, the audio is just a hair lower than other services that I've sampled. Idk, maybe it's just my ears getting older and I've cranked up Metallica one too many times in my ear buds. Lol, I have a hard time hearing Bill's KYND since shortly after Synergy took over programming as well, so it may just be an influx of earwax that eludes the daily ritual of a Q-Tip swab.
 
purpledevil said:
I didn't think The Eagle still spun Hotel California. I haven't heard it in a long, long time. Now, there was a time when 107-5 played it and Stairway to Heaven ad nauseam. You could nearly set your timepiece to it. I'll have to actually sample The Eagle again. With having my own classic rock library always a click away, it's rare for me to dial up 106-9/7-5 these days.
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The Eagle has gotten much better since the demise of the Arrow - they now have an identity as a true classic rock station, and an expanded playlist to match. Instead of being a classic rock station that stayed away from certain songs played by the other classic rock station, and trying to masquerade as a classic hits station that also played classic rock and failed at both.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
The Eagle has gotten much better since the demise of the Arrow - they now have an identity as a true classic rock station, and an expanded playlist to match. Instead of being a classic rock station that stayed away from certain songs played by the other classic rock station, and trying to masquerade as a classic hits station that also played classic rock and failed at both.
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Of course, things could have been worse, Bruce. The lightbulb could have illuminated in Cox's collective head about 5 years sooner than it did, and we'd have ended up with The Point X 2.

I'm just happy that KLDE existed at all. It's one of those stations, like KILT, KLOL, & KIKK, that pretty much everyone looks back upon with good memories.
 
purpledevil said:
Of course, things could have been worse, Bruce. The lightbulb could have illuminated in Cox's collective head about 5 years sooner than it did, and we'd have ended up with The Point X 2.

I'm just happy that KLDE existed at all. It's one of those stations, like KILT, KLOL, & KIKK, that pretty much everyone looks back upon with good memories.
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One wonders how - given Houston's great legacy stations, the dial became what it is today. Sad. Really sad.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
One wonders how - given Houston's great legacy stations, the dial became what it is today.
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Yes, and you are likely the only one who still wonders. It was a whole different ballgame when these particular stations were flourishing. Most of us can pinpoint exactly when that type of radio came to a screeching halt, and the calendar clearly reads 1996. Sad, sure. Reality, it is.
 
purpledevil said:
the calendar clearly reads 1996. Sad, sure. Reality, it is.
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Nothing happened that year in particular that hadn't been begun ten years earlier. And for Houston, the real change was sociological. That's what changed everything else. You have to ask yourself, when did the population change? When did oil crash? The answers to those questions will help you understand when Houston radio changed.
 
purpledevil said:
Yes, and you are likely the only one who still wonders. It was a whole different ballgame when these particular stations were flourishing. Most of us can pinpoint exactly when that type of radio came to a screeching halt, and the calendar clearly reads 1996. Sad, sure. Reality, it is.
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I don't think the 1996 act had all that much to do with it.

First change factor was Docket 80-90 which alllowed A's to become C's and permitted move-ins and all manner of rim shots.

Longer term change was urban sprawl, moving more and more people in the market outside the coverage of most AM stations. This made AM less viable.

Then there is the huge demographic change where around the end of the decade 40% of the market will be Hispanic. Many stations in both languages look for an HISPANIC core. That influences the viability of many stations.

Then there was the death through aging of formats like oldies and smooth jazz.

In other words, what economists call "market forces".
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
One wonders how - given Houston's great legacy stations, the dial became what it is today. Sad. Really sad.
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The legacy listeners are in Glenwood....
 
Completely concur. I'm at a total loss of comprehension on this particular proposed modification.
 
The Rimshot said:
There's no need to request directional towards Victoria, as K260BW covers it nicely.
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When an FM is directional, it is to provide protection, not more power than the equivalent for its class in any direction.

In other words, a 50 kw FM can radiate no more than 50 kw in any direction. If it is directional, it will radiate less than the 50 kw level in certain directions.

So the station can't put any more power towards Victoria.
 
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