Their stations are the best. I feel so said when AAA KHJK (103-7)just got flipped from Triple A to Christian, and people are still mourning over the loss of KLOL many years ago, but they have really gotten over it. So these stations are availible online or on TuneIn through iPod: AAA KGSR, 103-5 Bob-FM, Active Rock KLBJ, and now-The legendary Texas Country Radio Station, KOKE-FM. This is how it really does sound because Houston Radio SUCKS!
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You want good sounding radio? Then move to Austin.
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Another AAA type station can be found at http://www.wwctfm.com.
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Troy Goodwin said:
103.5 is strong enough in NW Houston it has a place on my presets. I often have been bewildered about that allocation for 93.7 in Houston, it covers up KLBJ - which I hate to admit is much better than I remember KLOL. I know KLBJ would have the power to make it into Houston, when I lived in Dallas I had a preset for it, but it was in pretty rugged shape after the trip up I-35. Then somebody covered the frequency with Spanish language in Dallas and KLBJ was no more up there.
KLBJ has an iPhone app, KGSR used to, but it seems to have disappeared. Don't give a flip for country, so I don't know if KOKE has an app.
It sucks so much I owned www.Houstonradiosucks.com back in 2004. I would listen to Jammin 1059 out of Austin via stream back around 2002.
Ever since 2001 it has sucked.
If UT doesn't buy 98.9, we have a good oldies station for now that can't be beat.
Stations I listen to in Austin:
KKMJ-HD2 95.5 Oldies
KXBT 98.9 Classic Hits/Oldies
KVET-HD 2 103.1 70s 80s 90s Top 40
KROX 101.5 Hypersonic Radio Saturdays 10pm to 12am EDM
KBPA 103.5 Adult Hits Bob FM during a good year for the 9 and 9
KBPA 103.5 HD2 Mega (Contemporary Dance Hits)
Stations I used to listen to in Houston.
KMJQ 102.1 or
THE OFF BUTTON! 107.5 before the Eagle until the only had 30 songs in the playlist, known as the Cox Shuffle when it became the Eagle it was 102.1 or OFF.
Ever since 2001 it has sucked.
If UT doesn't buy 98.9, we have a good oldies station for now that can't be beat.
Stations I listen to in Austin:
KKMJ-HD2 95.5 Oldies
KXBT 98.9 Classic Hits/Oldies
KVET-HD 2 103.1 70s 80s 90s Top 40
KROX 101.5 Hypersonic Radio Saturdays 10pm to 12am EDM
KBPA 103.5 Adult Hits Bob FM during a good year for the 9 and 9
KBPA 103.5 HD2 Mega (Contemporary Dance Hits)
Stations I used to listen to in Houston.
KMJQ 102.1 or
THE OFF BUTTON! 107.5 before the Eagle until the only had 30 songs in the playlist, known as the Cox Shuffle when it became the Eagle it was 102.1 or OFF.
I should make a domain www.austinradioisboring.com Only if I want to hear those same songs played over and over I may turn on the radio, but usually when I'm driving around town my radio is OFF. Austin isn't the best choice for radio. You could of picked Corpus, I would agree. They have almost every radio format that you need. Plus they actually add new music.
Kent said:
'91 before Easy Country 92.9 or after Easy Country 92.9?
before fall of 91 I couldn't have been happier about Houston radio, I had 93Q, and 104.1 for Top 40, 94.5, and 97.9 for Oldies, 93.7, 99.1, and 102.9 for soft rock (didn't care for KHMX then), Urban 102.1, and Rap on AM 1590.
willdav713 said:
LOL! Yes, that would be after 92.9 Easy Country! Actually, I loved the "Rock Hits 93Q" format.
Funny thing is that I never have been able to stomach KRBE. Even when I was into top-40 in the mid and late 80's, I thought KRBE was the worst excuse for a top-40 station anywhere! Even today, I can't stand KRBE, though I'm not into CHR at all.
While I can't argue against the business logic, I thought the gold-based AC format KFMK ran immediately before switching to KBXX was amazing. I really wish they'd given that station more time, though, like I said, it was obviously the right decision since The Box has been around 21 years and continues to do very well.
Kent said:
willdav713 said:
I don't know if I agree that much of Rock Hits 93Q was duplicated on K-Lite, but I guess I can't argue against it because I never really listened to K-Lite.
This past weekend, I was listening to AT-40 the 80's from 1988, and I realized I had listened to the same program on KHTR 103.3 in St. Louis that summer. Rock Hits 93Q had a lot of the same problems KHTR did. KHTR was the station that played your music but for your parents. Think top-40 with AC jocks. So, it was really no wonder that it would switch to oldies a few months later. St. Louis got something in early '88 that Houston lacked in '91, which was a younger, newer and hipper CHR in Q-106.5 (KRBE actually lost ratings after 93Q left the air). Top-40 had started to change by that time, and the only time you'd hear DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince on KHTR was during specialty programming. It was busy playing "Roll With It" by Steve Winwood and "Love Changes Everything" by Climie Fisher every two hours while Q was the flame throwing top-40 on top of all the new music.
Much like KHTR, Rock Hits 93Q had basically alienated its younger audience by getting rid of the Q-Zoo Morning Show and scaling back currents because there simply weren't enough currents that fit the format anymore. So, the long and short of it is that I agree with you that the Rock Hits format probably wasn't sustainable. There simply wasn't enough music coming out. KHTR tried to solve the problem by adding music that simply didn't appeal to much of anyone and burning the stuff that did worse than you could imagine while 93Q simply reached back into the gold collection.
Much like how I preferred 93Q head and shoulders above KRBE at 16, I had KHTR over Q-106.5 as a 13 year old. I've always preferred rock to rap, and I haven't been much of a top-40 listener since 93Q went away and Y-95 in Dallas became Power 95!
Kent said:
In Zapoleon's music cycle, you can't come across a better description of format doldrums than CHR in the late 80's and early 90's. The format was a mess.
You had two musical extremes: Rap (Rhythmic CHR had begun to emerge) and Rock (think hair hands). Record companies responded to the surge in popularity of both by cranking out every sound-alike artist they could sign. Mainstream stations, trying to avoid either extremes, were left with a bunch of soft pop and not much else. Add to it the pressure from management to deliver better 25-54 numbers and most CHR's evolved into Hot AC. Nationwide's Mix format, built in Orlando from the ashes of BJ105 was perfected here on the former KNRJ during this era.
For a brief moment, it looked like "Rock 40" would emerge, but for every Guns & Roses there were 5 or 6 forgettable bands like Dangerous Toys and Rock Hits 93Q went the way of Pirate Radio in LA. A lot of top 40 stations died in those years. Even KRBE basically became Hot AC for a spell as "Hits Without The Hype" and played way too much Michael Bolton.
The city I grew up in went from having 3 CHR stations trying to kill each other to having 5 AC stations. The market leading CHR went from a 10.2 to a 2.9 in one book trying to go soft to attract adults. It didn't hurt that they also blew out the morning show as part of that process. To adults, it was the station their kids listened to so they never tried it out. To the kids, it was the station they used to listen to before they started playing Stephen Bishop and Phil Collins at 8:00 at night. They flipped the dial and found Me So Horny somewhere else, and Nationwide flipped that station as it's next "Mix" after Houston's success. The first song on Variety 104.7? What else, friggin Roll With It.
Rock hits 93Q was only a stunt it was never intended to be a full time format. It was designed to alienate its CHR listeners in order to attract a different crowd to segue into country. Gannet didn't want a top 40 to deal with. I was told by someone on the inside (years later) that when Dean Hallum came on board at Q he told everyone things would be very different by the following year
"You want good sounding radio? Then move to Austin. " What a pompous title. That's like people that say "If you don't like America, then leave." We can get good sounding radio without having to move. You know, Pandora, Spotify and all those internet streams you can get off your computers and smartphones. Also, why Austin? They're not any better except for a few college stations, KOKE FM and 101X, all that can be heard online anyways.
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jras20 said:
Say what you will about Austin radio - but they have KLBJ FM, one of the best rock stations around. And they still have a real oldies station, unless UT reconsiders and buys it out. Even if they do, KONO AM makes it up to Austin - without having Spanish splatter on a first adjacent frequency.
rbrucecarter5 said:
Actually, it really doean't make it up to Austin in any usable form. Virtually no one is interested in music on AM. See the recent high-profile flop of KVI. Also, practically no one even listens to 860 in San Antonio where the signal is strong and 860 doesn't even get a 1 mV/m to downtown Austin. That's way below the threshold for most reasonable listeners. Totally irrelevant to anyone who is not a DXer.
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