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The Problem with Clear Channel DFW and Severe Weather

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marce90

While Cumulus stations (WBAP) and CBS stations (KRLD-AM) led the way with in-depth severe weather coverage, Clear Channel stations were left out of the dust!

I was trying to tune in to 106.1 Kiss FM on iHeartRadio to see if they're doing the same thing, but the one player kept messing up on, not just this station, but every other CC station in the DFW area.

But that's not the worst part, while I got it to work for a while, I found that the CC stations were continuing to play music as usual, barely mentioning the serious weather outside! Only a brief mention then it was back to the music. Even Kiss FM, which is the top-rated station in the market, kept playing Rhianna and Gym Class Heroes while it's other rival stations suspended normal music programming with simulcasts of news stations covering tornadoes and severe weather in the area. I mean the least they could've done is just simulcast KDFW FOX 4 or any of the TV news stations!

Even the Univision Spanish stations were covering the storm by informing its listeners and taking phone calls.

While 106.1 Kiss FM may be first place for music, it is last place for informing its listeners during tornado outbreaks!
 
Image that...Clear Channel "serving the public interest"...more like serving their bankers! F*** the public interest...we'll just buy off the politicians to keep us in business. What a screwed up organization!
 
CC in Dallas is at a disadvantage because 1190 — the only non-music format in the cluster — is NOT a news outlet. But hey, if you don't need it 364 days out of the year, why have it, right?
 
Triple Fake Jerry said:
CC in Dallas is at a disadvantage because 1190 — the only non-music format in the cluster — is NOT a news outlet. But hey, if you don't need it 364 days out of the year, why have it, right?
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I wonder if CC even remembers they own 1190 ::)
Aside from a few Pay Per Play and CNN programs, its country music.

I'm wondering why they even bothered to buy it.
 
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