The Houston Beauty Pageant: April Edition

[purpledevil]

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KODA keeps its stranglehold on the crown, while Majic leapfrogs The Eagle for the silver medal.

One thing to note: the classic rap may be cheaper to run, but the numbers are running closer towards the former news station's territory with every book. Egads, is there anything that can maintain a listener base at 92 megahertz in Seabrook?

And yet another note: there's the Mighty 1520, been running classic hits for 4 books now. Don't see as well as I used to, but I don't see KYND anywhere on the list. No slight at what you're doing, Bill, but I just don't see how we can continue to hear the argument of classic hits being needed so badly in this market, when there sits 1520 in the format and not showing.

 

[Unknowable]

It's not because KYND is running classic hits, it's because they're apparently using CDs on repeat to run the format which doesn't offer variety like a computer-based automation... Come on Bill LOL

 

[purpledevil]

Ok, point conceded. Then I'll ask where is KGBC on the list, who has been running non-stop classic hits with a broad variety for the south end of the metro, plus Galveston and the Bay area? I don't see it making a wave, either. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike classic hits, but I certainly remember a time not so long ago when we had the long established KLDE for a classic hits format, and all everyone did was complain about the Hotel California-Stairway to Heaven duo repeating every few hours. Do we really need to go back to that?

As for the Mighty 1520, it sure does make the purple one wonder what's REALLY going on up there at the high end of the dial. Is Pro allowing the 60 minute CD repeat of Bill Turner's personal faves continue unabated because something bigger is on the horizon? It's been almost 6 months since C.R.I. pulled up their stakes, leaving 1520 to sit there bobbing in the water. Given Siga's fairly quick find for a new broker on KLVL after Rehan Siddiqui moved to FM, it's looking more and more like Pro Broadcasting isn't even really trying to find a new tenant.

Geez Louise, could KYND end up being the second "Pueblo de Galilea" acquisition, increasing the Radio Aleluya AM network fold to 7? How about Ben Hall and/or Jesse Dunn? No way 93Q-2 is making former KCOH and KJOZ listeners very happy, wasting away on an HD only station.

What few of them that are left, that is.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Interesting that KBXX and KQBT are pretty much splitting the audience down the middle.

Very nice numbers for KUHF. Probably getting lots of news/talk fans tired of all the garbage on the AM talkers.

Still amazed at how well Country Legends does for a rimshot. Of course, the audience is probably quite old.

Respectable numbers for the Liberman eastern rimshots, keeping the company alive.

Doom, er, Boom continues to slide but I don't think RO will pull the plug just yet. They might be better off selling and getting it off their hands. I'd love to see what a new owner would do with the frequency.

KUHA has a nice uptick in its final days, more than double what it had a few months ago.

Why Gow Media even bothers to keep things going is beyond me. KGOW a no-show, KFNC horrible.

KYBJ shows up again. Curious what kind of numbers the new K*BJ 91.7 will pull.

And a tip of the hat to KTSU's showing. I've never heard even the faintest rumor of Texas Southern putting the station up for sale.

 

[purpledevil]

KUHA has a nice uptick in its final days, more than double what it had a few months ago.

KYBJ shows up again. Curious what kind of numbers the new K*BJ 91.7 will pull.

That's, of course, the 99-5 translator attributing to KYBJ showing up in the pageant. Don't get too excited about 91-7 KNGN-FM, Frog. It's still going to be some time before that license transfer comes off the review docket, is consummated, facility switched over to KSBJ's control, and airing N-GEN. I figure sometime in Q1 of 2017. We'll see, but it doesn't look good. Once it hit that docket, the clock came to a standstill.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Don't get too excited about 91-7 KNGN-FM, Frog.

Has there been any indication that KNGN-FM will indeed be the new call? There is an KNGN on AM in Nebraska, religious format, so perhaps more willing to "share."

It's still going to be some time before that license transfer comes off the review docket, is consummated, facility switched over to KSBJ's control, and airing N-GEN. I figure sometime in Q1 of 2017. We'll see, but it doesn't look good. Once it hit that docket, the clock came to a standstill.

I assume the issue has to do with the number of stations KSBJ Educational Foundation owns in SE Texas?

 

[purpledevil]

Has there been any indication that KNGN-FM will indeed be the new call? There is an KNGN on AM in Nebraska, religious format, so perhaps more willing to "share."



I assume the issue has to do with the number of stations KSBJ Educational Foundation owns in SE Texas?

No, there's nothing concrete as far as the call. Just an assumption on my part. It would make for a fitting set, though, and yes I know about the AM in Nebraska, which is why I added the -FM suffix.

I won't overly get into the issue of the PTD filed against the license transfer, but to answer your inquiry, yes that was the basis of the argument filed by the petitioner.

 

[johndavis]

Why Gow Media even bothers to keep things going is beyond me. KGOW a no-show, KFNC horrible.

Because KGOW needs to clear as much of YSR in Houston as possible so they can promise national advertisers clearance in a top 10 market.

As for KFNC, once you look at the male 25-54 demos that David Barron publishes in the Chronicle, they look pretty good for a sports station. Although all of the sports stations are down from a year ago.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

The only thing I see that is statistically significant is a slight downturn of KILT, and a corresponding upturn of KKBQ. Any theories?