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Time To Bring Back KTRH-FM (If You Know What I Mean)?

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

It's been a couple of years since Walton & Johnson joined the Arrow airstaff, and they're still languishing in 16th place.

Sure, they're beating The Eagle handily (if you want to call a 0.6-1.0 advantage "handily," anyway) but that's like winning first place at the Underachiever Olympics.

Among the 15 or so stations beating KKRW... Sister station KTRH, which would be the most likely candidate to make the transition to FM that several other notable AM stations across the country have made thus far. You think they'd benefit from an FM simulcast and enjoy a ratings boost that stations like WSB and WGY have?
 
DToTheJ said:
It's been a couple of years since Walton & Johnson joined the Arrow airstaff, and they're still languishing in 16th place.

Sure, they're beating The Eagle handily (if you want to call a 0.6-1.0 advantage "handily," anyway) but that's like winning first place at the Underachiever Olympics.

Among the 15 or so stations beating KKRW... Sister station KTRH, which would be the most likely candidate to make the transition to FM that several other notable AM stations across the country have made thus far. You think they'd benefit from an FM simulcast and enjoy a ratings boost that stations like WSB and WGY have?
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Any successful talk radio FM stations in Texas?

The PPMs show KXBT Austin and KHBT (The Horn) both on FM have less than a 2.0 Share. San Antonio's KRPT 92.5 under 1.7. If 93.7 would go talk it would probally be in Spanish.
 
If Clear Channel still had five FM's in Houston, the KTRH-FM possibility would be much stronger. But with only three FM's (after being forced to divest KHMX and KLOL) such a move is less likely to happen.
 
How about if CC gets a translator at limited power - so at least they can say they're on FM? (See also: Miami, Portland, OR.) Or would a translator violate their station ownership limit?
 
DToTheJ said:
How about if CC gets a translator at limited power - so at least they can say they're on FM? (See also: Miami, Portland, OR.) Or would a translator violate their station ownership limit?
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Doubtful. For one thing, they would have to demonstrate that their AM signal is interfered with or compromised in the service area...hard to do with a 50kw blowtorch. Other stations that have done this have convinced the FCC that they are suffering service degradation due to co-channel stations in Mexico and Cuba.

Also, such translators in other markets have already been on the air with other programming sources, and through various agreements have wound up relaying longstanding AM's. There are no such translators here, unless KSBJ wants to cough up 99.5 in Sugar Land. You would have to build new translators from scratch, which would have to get past FCC scrutiny.
 
KKRW is seriously waiting for this to occur.

I still hold out hope that KLOL will be turned into an all news station like they've done in other locations.

Radio still sucks in Houston, other than the fringe stations of 103.7 and 106.9 that are at least doing something different.
 
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