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The Long Nightmare Is Over (KTHT Sold)

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BamaTX would love to know which one of the Nuevo Laredo stations is playing country. Did you catch the calls or dial position.

From my time on the border there were always a few stations that would lease, I did some work for a Ciudad Acuna FM that did top 40 back in the late 1970s and most of the 1980s. A station in Piedras Negras lured away most of the KINL, Eagle Pass, jocks for an English personality Top 40 format (they had been English Top 40 songs with Liners and ads in Spanish). An Acuna AM was top 40 at one point but automated, then it went beautiful music. Had office for sales and production in the USA.
 
I'm still surprised Hope media didn't try to purchase one of the divested signals. Especially 92.1. Their "upgrade" of KSBJ a few years back just doesn't have the punch south of the city being on a shorter stick. KSBJs signal is almost non existent in Galveston, possibly shaded by the downtown buildings that are almost directly in line between Galveston and the transmitter site.
 
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BamaTX would love to know which one of the Nuevo Laredo stations is playing country. Did you catch the calls or dial position.

From my time on the border there were always a few stations that would lease, I did some work for a Ciudad Acuna FM that did top 40 back in the late 1970s and most of the 1980s. A station in Piedras Negras lured away most of the KINL, Eagle Pass, jocks for an English personality Top 40 format (they had been English Top 40 songs with Liners and ads in Spanish). An Acuna AM was top 40 at one point but automated, then it went beautiful music. Had office for sales and production in the USA.
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They linked to it Pure Country 957

XHBK-FM/XEBK-AM
95.7 MHz/1340 kHz
 
I highly doubt Country Legends is moving to KKBQ, their ratings (Legends) were terrible (2.0, down from a 2.2). iHeart won't try it out in the market on KQBT (3.0, up from a 2.9). Cumulus can't do it on KRBE (despite going down from a 4.1 to a 3.5). Audacy isn't trying it out on KLOL (2.5 to 2.6) despite its mediocre ratings. Where will Houston country fans listen to classic country music on the radio now?
 
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Does that mean that KRBE is safe from being sold to EMF or a religious broadcaster?
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Everything is for sale at the right price, but Cumulus has never intended to unload KRBE without the intellectual property going with it. It believes that station is worth more than what religious broadcasters typically pay, and the station makes money hand over fist. It has no urgency to sell the station. Had the remaining portions of the Audacy/EMF deal not fallen through, Cumulus was rumored to have had a deal to send KRBE to Audacy for Minneapolis. While I suppose that might still happen, it doesn't seem likely in the near term.

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I highly doubt Country Legends is moving to KKBQ, their ratings (Legends) were terrible (2.0, down from a 2.2). iHeart won't try it out in the market on KQBT (3.0, up from a 2.9). Cumulus can't do it on KRBE (despite going down from a 4.1 to a 3.5). Audacy isn't trying it out on KLOL (2.5 to 2.6) despite its mediocre ratings. Where will Houston country fans listen to classic country music on the radio now?
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Urban One keeps Country Legends on 92.9 HD2 (or HD3, wherever it has it now). That's likely the only place on the dial classic country will go. Yeah, not many will likely listen, but classic country doesn't sell extremely well.
 
Mykel the Radio Guy said:
I highly doubt Country Legends is moving to KKBQ, their ratings (Legends) were terrible (2.0, down from a 2.2). iHeart won't try it out in the market on KQBT (3.0, up from a 2.9). Cumulus can't do it on KRBE (despite going down from a 4.1 to a 3.5). Audacy isn't trying it out on KLOL (2.5 to 2.6) despite its mediocre ratings. Where will Houston country fans listen to classic country music on the radio now?
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Classic country is a niche format. I find it wasteful to have classic country and country owned by the same company just put it together as country and play it all.
 
Won't even make a dent in KSBJ's ratings. A half a million listeners strong in cume and 4.9 in the PPM per RadioInsight. Another long-time secular format goes under for a satellite CCM network from Nashville that gives away $3,000 gift cards in their 'fundraisers'. Maybe that's one reason why they were begging for "50 people at $100 a month"?

Reason number umpteen why I continue to support local and regional CCM networks. Albeit, KSBJ isn't innocent in buying up secular and small-town radio (does KSHN come to mind?)
I wonder if Urban One goes after one of those Spanish Christian or ethnic outlets to replace the translator with Classic Country? Wild guess.
 
Kent said:
I wouldn’t be surprised if Urban One keeps Country Legends on 92.9 HD2 (or HD3, wherever it has it now). That's likely the only place on the dial classic country will go. Yeah, not many will likely listen, but classic country doesn't sell extremely well.
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They currently only have "Texas Country" on HD2. It would be cool if they move that back to HD3 (all their branding still says HD3) and bring Country Legends back to HD2. Personally I think if they did care about it they would have already put it on an HD station and told listeners to check them out there like they've been doing with KROI.

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I wonder if Urban One goes after one of those Spanish Christian or ethnic outlets to replace the translator with Classic Country? Wild guess.
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I feel like most listeners of classic country don't live downtown where those are legally supposed to cover.
 
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rosecitymedia said:
The addition of Willy will help to soften the blow for deep ETX. Not much consolation for classic country loving Houstonians, however. I don't think they'll soon see a replacement for 97.1, but 93Q may start adding a few more golds to the rotation. Classic country is evolving, and it just doesn't pull the numbers it once did.
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What about KPLX in Dallas?
 
HTX said:
They currently only have "Texas Country" on HD2. It would be cool if they move that back to HD3 (all their branding still says HD3) and bring Country Legends back to HD2.
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That’s assuming RO keeps any of the extra HD subchannels outside of Praise on 102.1 HD-2. Seems they will lease subchannels for translator feeds, but not for HD-only programming. If anyone has examples from other RO markets, feel free to chime in. In DFW I don’t recall KBFB or KZMJ having any HD-only channels.🤔
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What about KPLX in Dallas?
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KPLX is gold skewing Country sold in combination with more current tunes on sister KSCS. Similar situation in Austin with siblings KASE and KVET-FM. I believe Country Legends leaned quite a bit older older than the stations in DFW and Austin, though CL apparently dropped the really old material not too long ago.

We could have the same situation here in Houston were KKBQ and KILT-FM co-owned.
 
$3.1 million? What a steal for EMF!

I guessed it would sell for closer to $5 million. Perhaps an issue or two came up during due diligence that affected the purchase price?
 
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MarkW said:
$3.1 million? What a steal for EMF!

I guessed it would sell for closer to $5 million. Perhaps an issue or two came up during due diligence that affected the purchase price?
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No, just an indication of how much station values have fallen. Radio One is selling KROI for only around 10% of what they paid for it in 2004. They set fire to $65M of the original $72.5M purchase price.
 
stan said:
Ruining radio one station at a time.
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blame the seller too.. no ones holding a gun to the buyers head, but who else has that kinda cash?

no ones saying if someone else bought it theyd keep the format and staff, of which I bet KTHT had very little staff amongst the cluster that was solely for KTHT
 
MarkW said:
$3.1 million? What a steal for EMF!

I guessed it would sell for closer to $5 million. Perhaps an issue or two came up during due diligence that affected the purchase price?
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How many potential buyers are there right now? Competition drives up prices. Lack of offers drives down the price.

Any other qualified buyers? Anyone? They might have worked a trade with Cumulus, but that's about it.
 
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