What do you think of "The Possum" 92.1?

[oldmanradio]

Or have you even given it a thought?

That's what I thought.

That, that is, is.
That, that is not, is not.
Is that it?
It is.

 

[VERITAS DE VOCE]

No offense.. but I think seeing that this post has been viewed 58 times and still no one has replied somewhat tells you what people think of the POSSUM. ;D

 

[KPLEXCOMPLEX]

The Ken Jones family. Son runs it, or should I say ruIns" it.

 

[txchipk]

The Ken Jones family. Son runs it, or should I say ruIns" it.

I'm not sure how they "ruin" it...it changed from one satellite format to another. If the "Real Country" product is bad, the complaints ought to go to ABC.

It's not my kind of music, so the station doesn't do much for me. But for where KXEZ's limited signal is, it is a format not available anywhere else on the FM dial. The only place with a similar format is KFXR 1190. Since KFXR's nighttime coverage isn't that swell, during the nighttime hours, KXEZ is the sole choice. Although I don't have much interest in the format, I don't see the problem of trying to provide a format that has some uniqueness on the dial. I wish it were local, but that didn't seem to be a criticism of anyone on the board when it was using a feed of a music format they liked better.

One would think the format was changed to compliment its co-ownership with Americana KHYI 95.3.

 

[Tookiebird]

The Ken Jones family. Son runs it, or should I say ruIns" it.

I'm not sure how they "ruin" it...it changed from one satellite format to another. If the "Real Country" product is bad, the complaints ought to go to ABC.

It's not my kind of music, so the station doesn't do much for me. But for where KXEZ's limited signal is, it is a format not available anywhere else on the FM dial. The only place with a similar format is KFXR 1190. Since KFXR's nighttime coverage isn't that swell, during the nighttime hours, KXEZ is the sole choice. Although I don't have much interest in the format, I don't see the problem of trying to provide a format that has some uniqueness on the dial. I wish it were local, but that didn't seem to be a criticism of anyone on the board when it was using a feed of a music format they liked better.

One would think the format was changed to compliment its co-ownership with Americana KHYI 95.3.

Thanks for checkin' in Mr. Jones

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Or have you even given it a thought?

---- YAWN ---- yet another boring hillbilly country station. It is OFF my presets, it might as well be playing continuous toilet flushes for all I care. SLURG gurgle gurgle.

Default thinking around here: go country, go spanish. I say - do that - you can go to the blazes for all I care. I won't be listening any more.

I'm waiting for something creative. "Possum", "Movin", "Lite", "Casa" are NOT. I'm still waiting for something creative.

 

[KPLEXCOMPLEX]

See the trend on "Movin"? As I said before its sinking faster than a submarine with a screen door.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

See the trend on "Movin"? As I said before its sinking faster than a submarine with a screen door.

So are some of the others. When you have 26 country stations in the area, and 17 Spanish (10 on FM alone) in the area, the audience for those two formats are dividing up the audience into smaller and smaller pieces until nobody is going to rate very well. Given that all but the fringe stations take out adjacents as well, especially with IBOC, you are talking about a sizable chunk of the available radio spectrum devoted to virtually the same two formats. I'm sorry if I oversimplify, but country is country and Spanish is Spanish to me. I just don't see much distinction there. But I do see too much of both to be supported by the available audience. Lack of diversity in programming, the rest of us are left with pitiful choices.

 

[oldmanradio]

Jones, not ABC on KXEZ

Just FYI ... the satellite program on "The Possum" 92.1 is provided by the Jones Radio Network (no relation to the owner and his family) and is based in Colorado.

Before the switch, KXEZ broadcast rock oldies from ABC and Jones oldies before that.

By the way, I agree with Bruce. This is Texas, but we have far too many country stations.

KXEZ's new programming is quite similar to Cowboy 1190. Recently, I heard a song from 1952 by Hank Thompson. That is an oldie.

 

[TheLaffer]

Or have you even given it a thought?

---- YAWN ---- yet another boring hillbilly country station. It is OFF my presets, it might as well be playing continuous toilet flushes for all I care. SLURG gurgle gurgle.

Default thinking around here: go country, go spanish. I say - do that - you can go to the blazes for all I care. I won't be listening any more.

I'm waiting for something creative. "Possum", "Movin", "Lite", "Casa" are NOT. I'm still waiting for something creative.

Get off your ass and make it happen then. Stop complaining all the time.

 

[TheLaffer]

See the trend on "Movin"? As I said before its sinking faster than a submarine with a screen door.

I don't think you were the only one saying that.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Get off your ___ and make it happen then. Stop complaining all the time.

I do not think profanity is appropriate here. If I could do something about the poor quality of radio here, I would. As it is, the only option left for people like myself, disenfranchised by programmers here, is satellite.

 

[terrileer]

We love "The Possum". We listen all day at work and whenever the radio is on. In the car, at home. I'm glad there is someone who plays the hits that we grew up on and would sing to. Most everyone where I work listens and thinks it's a good change. Keep up the good work. We love ya George!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope that some of the ones that have responded not ruin it for the rest of us.

 

[TheLaffer]

We love "The Possum". We listen all day at work and whenever the radio is on. In the car, at home. I'm glad there is someone who plays the hits that we grew up on and would sing to. Most everyone where I work listens and thinks it's a good change. Keep up the good work. We love ya George!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope that some of the ones that have responded not ruin it for the rest of us.

Thanks for checkin' in Mrs. Possum

 

[txchipk]

Re: Jones, not ABC on KXEZ

Just FYI ... the satellite program on "The Possum" 92.1 is provided by the Jones Radio Network (no relation to the owner and his family) and is based in Colorado.

Before the switch, KXEZ broadcast rock oldies from ABC and Jones oldies before that.

Thanks for the correction...when I tuned by it, I heard a couple of drops that referenced them playing "real country." I had just assumed they were using the ABC Real Country feed as a result.

 

[txchipk]

See the trend on "Movin"? As I said before its sinking faster than a submarine with a screen door.

So are some of the others. When you have 26 country stations in the area, and 17 Spanish (10 on FM alone) in the area, the audience for those two formats are dividing up the audience into smaller and smaller pieces until nobody is going to rate very well. Given that all but the fringe stations take out adjacents as well, especially with IBOC, you are talking about a sizable chunk of the available radio spectrum devoted to virtually the same two formats. I'm sorry if I oversimplify, but country is country and Spanish is Spanish to me. I just don't see much distinction there. But I do see too much of both to be supported by the available audience. Lack of diversity in programming, the rest of us are left with pitiful choices.

These "country and Spanish stations dominating the dial" rants are getting old...

There are not 26 country stations in the market. If you live in Dallas, you get 3 FM country stations (KSCS, KTYS, KPLX) and one AM classic country (KFXR) station. That would be 4 (by your definition of country), not 26. If you live in Denton County, you could add Americana KHYI for a total of 5 D/FW market stations. If you live in Collin Co, you could add classic country KXEZ -- 6 out of more than 60 market signals. If you live in Tarrant Co, you can't get KXEZ or KHYI, but can get classic country KTFW and country KFWR -- again, 6 out of 60+ signals.

Also, your definition of "country" is a little off. KXEZ or KTFW have no overlap with KFWR/KSCS/KTYS/KPLX or KHYI (which has very little overlap with all the others). Unless you consider KXEZ's previous top 40 oldies format and the current music played on KLUV and KHKS as the same format (KXEZ was 60s top 40 oldies, KLUV is 60s/70s top 40 oldies, and KHKS is present day top 40, thus they must all be running a "top 40" format), I guess you could consider country oldies, Americana, and country as the same format. If you don't think the old KXEZ, current KLUV, and current KHKS share the same format, then you probably should figure out that KXEZ has a different format than KHYI, which is also different than KSCS, KTYS, and KPLX. 50s-70s country oldies has little to do with contemporary country; calling them the same is saying the Supremes and Justin Timberlake are the same thing.

If you have the world's most powerful and sensitve radio that you are able to pick up 26 country stations within a 300 mile radius of Dallas like a local, you no doubt have a number of oldies stations like the old KXEZ on your dial. KXEZ's loss shouldn't be so traumatic.

I don't care for the majority of music on any of the Spanish-language or R&B/hip hop stations. Because it doesn't turn me on musically doesn't invalidate them as a form of music or invalidate them as a radio formats. The constant rants on this board slamming certain formats because they don't appeal to their personal preferences gets old. Some of rants are getting insulting. I'm sure you would protest som post along the lines that the typical person wanting a 50s-60s "real oldies" station is a middle-aged loser who wants to live in the past by listening to the same old tired hits of the youth since the best days of their lives were in high school decades ago.

 

[TheLaffer]

See the trend on "Movin"? As I said before its sinking faster than a submarine with a screen door.

So are some of the others. When you have 26 country stations in the area, and 17 Spanish (10 on FM alone) in the area, the audience for those two formats are dividing up the audience into smaller and smaller pieces until nobody is going to rate very well. Given that all but the fringe stations take out adjacents as well, especially with IBOC, you are talking about a sizable chunk of the available radio spectrum devoted to virtually the same two formats. I'm sorry if I oversimplify, but country is country and Spanish is Spanish to me. I just don't see much distinction there. But I do see too much of both to be supported by the available audience. Lack of diversity in programming, the rest of us are left with pitiful choices.

These "country and Spanish stations dominating the dial" rants are getting old...

There are not 26 country stations in the market. If you live in Dallas, you get 3 FM country stations (KSCS, KTYS, KPLX) and one AM classic country (KFXR) station. That would be 4 (by your definition of country), not 26. If you live in Denton County, you could add Americana KHYI for a total of 5 D/FW market stations. If you live in Collin Co, you could add classic country KXEZ -- 6 out of more than 60 market signals. If you live in Tarrant Co, you can't get KXEZ or KHYI, but can get classic country KTFW and country KFWR -- again, 6 out of 60+ signals.

Also, your definition of "country" is a little off. KXEZ or KTFW have no overlap with KFWR/KSCS/KTYS/KPLX or KHYI (which has very little overlap with all the others). Unless you consider KXEZ's previous top 40 oldies format and the current music played on KLUV and KHKS as the same format (KXEZ was 60s top 40 oldies, KLUV is 60s/70s top 40 oldies, and KHKS is present day top 40, thus they must all be running a "top 40" format), I guess you could consider country oldies, Americana, and country as the same format. If you don't think the old KXEZ, current KLUV, and current KHKS share the same format, then you probably should figure out that KXEZ has a different format than KHYI, which is also different than KSCS, KTYS, and KPLX. 50s-70s country oldies has little to do with contemporary country; calling them the same is saying the Supremes and Justin Timberlake are the same thing.

If you have the world's most powerful and sensitve radio that you are able to pick up 26 country stations within a 300 mile radius of Dallas like a local, you no doubt have a number of oldies stations like the old KXEZ on your dial. KXEZ's loss shouldn't be so traumatic.

I don't care for the majority of music on any of the Spanish-language or R&B/hip hop stations. Because it doesn't turn me on musically doesn't invalidate them as a form of music or invalidate them as a radio formats. The constant rants on this board slamming certain formats because they don't appeal to their personal preferences gets old. Some of rants are getting insulting. I'm sure you would protest som post along the lines that the typical person wanting a 50s-60s "real oldies" station is a middle-aged loser who wants to live in the past by listening to the same old tired hits of the youth since the best days of their lives were in high school decades ago.

Some of those middle-aged losers that love 50s-60s AND 70s will get their wish in just a few short months.

 

[txchipk]

Some of those middle-aged losers that love 50s-60s AND 70s will get their wish in just a few short months.

Terrific...though the rumor an oldies station is just a few short months away has been posted several times over the last 2 years and no oldies station ever comes to be.

If you had read my post completely, I was arguing there should be room on the dial for all sorts of formats. As I pointed out, I don't care for most Spanish-language or R&B formats, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be available. I feel the same about oldies -- don't care for it, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be on the air. I'm just tired of seeing nasty slurs against Hispanics or nasty comments about other formats simply because those posters don't like that type of music.

Some folks keep ranting on "too many" Spanish-language stations and that they are for "illegals" and "day laborers." My point is that is about as appropriate as those folks saying something like "It's good you guys are getting an 50s/60s oldies station back. Now you can listen to "It's My Party" on the radio while you go through your high school yearbook remembering the good ol' days...days when you were cool and days where everyone spoke English. Those were the days..."

 

[KPLEXCOMPLEX]

txchipk: We disagree. There is an overabundance of country and spanish language programming in DFW. There is only one oldies station, one classical station.

There is NO all news station, No commercial jazz station. We have heard the excuses why we don't have those stations. The willingness is not there, the means are. The innovation to do it,doesn't exist in this market.

 

[txchipk]

txchipk: We disagree. There is an overabundance of country and spanish language programming in DFW. There is only one oldies station, one classical station.

There is NO all news station, No commercial jazz station. We have heard the excuses why we don't have those stations. The willingness is not there, the means are. The innovation to do it,doesn't exist in this market.

At any particular place in the market, less than 10% of the available frequencies are playing some sort of variant of country. Based on the total ratings share of the market listening to a country variant over the years (8-11%), the number is not out of whack. There are not 26 local country stations or anything close to it...There probably are too many Spanish-language stations in the market based on the amount of Spanish-dominant households in the market.

Commercial jazz doesn't seem to be a reality in any market. If there is a jazz station (like KNTU), it is almost always a non-commercial entity.

I would love to see an all news-station like the brief run of KEWS. Though, I'm not sure it would be successful...problem is the advent of numerous talk stations, sports talk stations, news on public radio (KERA-FM), etc. has narrowed down the potential audience over the last decade. Who needs to wait for sports at :15 and :45 when sports updates happen 3x hour on KESN and KTCK? Need political news -- KERA-FM's schedule is filled with it. And so on... The audience doesn't seem to demand a real news outlet either...there's precious little real news in either the Dallas or Ft Worth papers these days (and more makeovers scheduled this year will mean less). There's virtually no serious news from most TV news operation in town (KXAS' non-stop health "news you can use," "crime alerts," and informerical "reports" for area stores having sales where you can pick up a bargain, etc.). The advent of the Internet has made it so anyone can read wire reports from the AP and Reuters on their own. They don't need the Dallas Morning News or KRLD for that anymore. A credible all-news operation would need a lot of staff (i.e. expensive to run); the return on that investment may not justify it.

WRR has a preset on my dial. But, I suspect the days of commerical classical radio are almost dead. Once the city sells it -- at some point, some city council will be elected who will cave in to the money -- it will be gone. And that will be sad. There are only a little more than 2 dozen commercial classical stations left in the US (advertisers are not interested in the older-skewing audience). Several long-time classical stations are on death watches ... WGMS Washington is a goner pending a sale to Danny Snyder to make it the new home of his Redskins' sports station; KDFC San Francisco surely will not survive once Entercom takes over it. WCRB Boston was recently "saved" ... it's format was moved from a full market facility to a rimshot that half the market can't hear now.