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Pero, KCOH es no más. That is, unless Ralph Cooper has taken up Mariachi lessons. No, no. Es "La Ranchera" now at 101-7, 850, & 1230 on your radio dial. After 62 years, the Call of Houston has passed from this earth.

Happened sometime tonight, KCOH was chugging alonger earlier today. Guess KJOZ won the war...
 
It's the real deal, folks. Nothing temporary about it. 11:00pm CDT TOH ID: KNTE 101-7 FM Bay City, KEYH 850 kilohertz Houston, y KCOH 1230 kilohertz Houston.

You'll read about this at the Chron.com tomorrow, likely see it on Local 2 News or Eyewitness News, and Mike McGuff will blog about the rich history of KCOH at both 1430, then finally at 1230.

The purple one broke this one. No one, but no one watches the radio dial in Houston, Texas closer. Not so sure that's such a good thing, lol.

Edit to add: "Amazing" can claim its first victim.
 
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JoeFM said:
Not sure how many will mourn the loss...
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Well, with the recent changes at KJOZ, I would wager a guess that Cooper and the gang have a gig in waiting. Of course, 880's signal does nothing for you guys down in Sugarland, Mo. City, Pearland, etc., but KJOZ covers the northside like a blanket...at least while the sun's up. At night, that 1kW doesn't make it up here worth an extended listen, forget it in downtown.

No mourning, huh? We'll see. I'm thinking we're about to see an outcry the likes of KLOL territory.
 
The webstream at www.kcohradio.com is still there a little after midnight Thursday morning. In automation mode, no live announcers. Still branding with "1230 KCOH."

Nothing about the change on KCOH's Facebook and Twitter feeds.

Remember that KCOH was leasing the 1230 frequency, and I suspect Liberman gave them the boot late Wednesday afternoon. I tuned across KCOH briefly on Wednesday morning, and everything appeared to be normal. Perhaps behind on the rent?

The 1230 signal is lousy, and I suspect the KCOH audience is very old--it would not surprise me if most of the listeners are 65+. Small wonder they appear to have run into the financial ditch.

KJOZ also strikes me as a station whose audience is very old. I did not expect them to last very long, but if KCOH is indeed gone, KJOZ might be able to hang on a little longer. But a poor daytime signal into the southern half of the market along with a night signal that is useless outside of Montgomery County does not sound like a viable operation. Look how many formats have come and gone on 880 since the KIKR days.

Will KCOH programming pop up somewhere else? KLVL would seem to be available.

On a related note, when did 101.7 and 850 start simulcasting? They had been separate for a while.
 
Been a couple months now, Frog. La 850 was short lived and it simply returned to simulcasting KNTE. Now, the trifecta is back in full effect. I just don't get why they chose La Ranchera again. 1230 would put La Raza square in the middle of town, albeit on AM. 98-5 & 103-3 both have their hits and misses inner Loop.

KLVL is indeed on the market again. Siddiqui surely isn't paying top dollar to run that message on a loop for the last week. Multicultural will sell Ben Hall as many hours as his heart desires on KXYZ, as well.
 
FWIW, KCOH is still doing its thing online. Ben Hall said on-air these are "excellent and positive changes." Says this is part of a plan to get a stronger signal but the timing did not work out as planned for the transition to all happen at once.

Of course, Hall also said they were going to get a signal that "covers all of Texas"...
 
purpledevil said:
He'll need a lot of pesos to do that, 'cuz XERF won't come cheap.
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Is the price with or without the remaining autographed pictures of Jesus?
 
Posted on the KCOH Facebook page this morning:

"Hello Great Kcoh Listeners and Supporters, thank you for all of your calls and concerns for kcoh , we are currently in the process of upgrades for our signal that is taking longer then we anticipated but we assure you that kcoh 1230 is alive and well and you will be able to hear us in your cars again soon, we apologize for this temporary inconvenience but we assure you what's ahead for kcoh will be well worth it! Until then please enjoy all of our great programming on www.kcohradio.com
or download our free mobile app. The near future for the Legendary kcoh is very bright and we salute the visionary Ben Hall for his foward thinking! We will keep you updated, thank you for your continued support! - Jerri P Beasley /Program Director"

Still more vague info. Sounds like a frequency move, but the new lease arrangement might be taking longer to finalize than they anticipated. Still guessing KLVL, but might either KGOL or KXYZ be in play here?
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Posted on the KCOH Facebook page this morning:

"Hello Great Kcoh Listeners and Supporters, thank you for all of your calls and concerns for kcoh , we are currently in the process of upgrades for our signal that is taking longer then we anticipated but we assure you that kcoh 1230 is alive and well and you will be able to hear us in your cars again soon, we apologize for this temporary inconvenience but we assure you what's ahead for kcoh will be well worth it! Until then please enjoy all of our great programming on www.kcohradio.com
or download our free mobile app. The near future for the Legendary kcoh is very bright and we salute the visionary Ben Hall for his foward thinking! We will keep you updated, thank you for your continued support! - Jerri P Beasley /Program Director"

Still more vague info. Sounds like a frequency move, but the new lease arrangement might be taking longer to finalize than they anticipated. Still guessing KLVL, but might either KGOL or KXYZ be in play here?
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Won't they have to pay off the time they've already used for 1230, before a new lease is signed elsewhere? Word is, they were past due with Liberman, and not by a few days or weeks. That won't bode well for them in attempting to strike a new agreement elsewhere. Something tells me, reading between the lines in the wording used above, that Hall is doing everything in his power to obtain the financing in order to pay the owed money back and return 1230 KCOH back to...well, KCOH. An upgrade could also mean, instead of continuing to lease 1230, he may be trying to get enough investors together in hopes of an outright purchase of the thing. Good luck there, I stand by my previous statement that 1230 is not worth any real money being sunk into it, at this juncture of its long life. Time will tell, I suppose.

Edit to add: KLVL continues to loop, week 2. It is now a new Rehan Siddiqui message being looped, btw.
 
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Uh-oh. Just checked KCOH, and it's dead air. KEYH continues on as usual.

Edit to add: false alarm folks, La Ranchera has returned. Anyone notice the audio is significantly worse than KEYH? Sounds like KCOH is taking the feed from 850 and it's turned up too loud. Causing distortion on KCOH now.
 
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Uh-oh. Just checked KCOH, and it's dead air. KEYH continues on as usual.

Edit to add: false alarm folks, La Ranchera has returned. Anyone notice the audio is significantly worse than KEYH? Sounds like KCOH is taking the feed from 850 and it's turned up too loud. Causing distortion on KCOH now.
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Yes it does sound horrible and with like a few seconds delay
 
If you want to listen to oldies that bad there are 4 sirusxm stations and like 20 Shoutcast stations no need to FM AM radio
 
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