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Your Oppinions: Is this professional radio?

Went to their website, I don't think they really claim to be 'professional' radio. In fact they'll sell anybody air time so you're going to get a mixture of both really good and really bad. When I first hit the steam, whatever was playing reminded me of the group 'Art of Noise' Techno-rock from the 80s and then it morphed into some kind of hip-hop (which isn't my cup of tea anyway) so I didn't hang around long, but hey it is was it is and good luck to them trying to keep local radio alive.

Wish I had the money to buy a frequency and put something on air.
 
You can expect the level of quality and professionalism to be all over the road with this station. They're 'brokered time', so if you have the cash, you have the time and you decide what to do with it. Showing up in the ratings or striving for a certain level of professionalism or sound quality matter much less than the ability of the client to pay. I explain such stations as like a strip mall that shows up on a corner with a for lease sign. You can lease as much of it as you want and once you do, you finish out the interior and start doing business. The landlord is much less concerned about the business or how you finish out the interior than the ability for you to pay on time. In essence it's like a coloring book. The clients pick the colors and color within the lines. You never know how it looks until it is completely colored. Such is the case for KQQB
 
bturner said:
You can expect the level of quality and professionalism to be all over the road with this station. They're 'brokered time', so if you have the cash, you have the time and you decide what to do with it. Showing up in the ratings or striving for a certain level of professionalism or sound quality matter much less than the ability of the client to pay. I explain such stations as like a strip mall that shows up on a corner with a for lease sign. You can lease as much of it as you want and once you do, you finish out the interior and start doing business. The landlord is much less concerned about the business or how you finish out the interior than the ability for you to pay on time. In essence it's like a coloring book. The clients pick the colors and color within the lines. You never know how it looks until it is completely colored. Such is the case for KQQB
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Is KQQB still associated with KYND? KYND's programming typically sounds top notch. I've heard satellite problems between the station and China Radio International's feed before, but when it occurs, KYND is fast to pull the plug and plays music from the studio with a recorded apology indicating problems with the sat. feed and a return to normal programming shortly.

Hard to imagine one station run that efficiently, while the other is all over the place. KQQB is the old KHLT-Hallettsville, right? I know it and KYND-Cypress were co-owned at one point if not currently.
 
Yes, KYND and KQQB are still under the same ownership but we are leasing out KQQB at this point. I have not been out to KQQB and really am not involved with the station.

Yes, I need to update that CD with some new material. There are some glitches here and there with CRI and I'm not sure where that is originating.

I must send thanks out to the phone company that got us back up in 3 hours when their hardware died leaving us unable to put CRI on the air. I have called on point to point lines before and they tried to set an appointment 2 or 3 days later but the best was when every phone line at KYND and the point to point line went down (they were all cut by a construction crew widening the road) and was told unless I could give them a phone number at the station where we could be reached they couldn't turn in the trouble ticket! Ah, fun times.
 
bturner said:
Yes, KYND and KQQB are still under the same ownership but we are leasing out KQQB at this point. I have not been out to KQQB and really am not involved with the station.
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Sigh. The owner of the station not involved in its operation. Is this what broadcasting has become?
 
mmnassour said:
Welcome to fully deregulated, iPod radio.
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Which fits well with a liner I heard on KVET a few months ago. Can't remember it verbatim, but it was something along the line of 'we're like your iPod on shuffle'.. :D
 
CTHank said:
Which fits well with a liner I heard on KVET a few months ago. Can't remember it verbatim, but it was something along the line of 'we're like your iPod on shuffle'.. :D
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Bob FM uses the same imaging. Stations like to say they're standing up to the man because it goes over well with listeners. Emmis-owned likes to call itself independent. But of course these stations are run by the country's biggest media corporations.
 
CTHank said:
mmnassour said:
Welcome to fully deregulated, iPod radio.
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Which fits well with a liner I heard on KVET a few months ago. Can't remember it verbatim, but it was something along the line of 'we're like your iPod on shuffle'.. :D
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My God, they actually said that? That's it then....the station's dead.

Why listen to "my iPod" with commercials....when I can listen to my iPod?
 
CT Hank: I wish I was the owner. I am the GM. Huge difference. You do understand I am GM of one station, KYND and not both? My owners know what is going on but I am not involved with KQQB. This is much like a GM at a Houston Cox owned station not knowing the details of what another Cox station, say in Atlanta, is doing.
 
You said, "Yes, KYND and KQQB are still under the same ownership but we are leasing out KQQB at this point. I have not been out to KQQB and really am not involved with the station"

I assumed when you said "we" you were including yourself in the ownership. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
 
And I still wish I had the money to lease a frequency and station and put my ideas on air :) but alas tis not to be :'(
 
No problem. I only get to hear what''s happening there when I see the owners.

I sure wish I had the dollars to get my hands on a station but I know any situation would need some deep pockets and really tough work to have a chance of making a station do as much as just break even. I'm one who would want to try the hard road of a format.
 
Any signal reports on this station? How dose the KQQB signal strength compare to other end of the AM band radio stations in San Antonio? Interested in the NW side of San Antonio.

Now, will this be the last new AM radio signal to move into San Antonio? SA radio has been getting more AM signals over the year. Not to mention all the new FM translators springing up in SA over the last few years.

KevanGC said:
Here's what KQQB 1520 AM has been airing.
http://limelinx.com/files/627c61dde1a189cd998b1b8be042f169

Here is the stream: http://nyc04.egihosting.com/237297?MSWMExt=.asf
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Thanks for posting this link. Its surprising they are streaming at all.
 
gabigley1 said:
Its surprising they are streaming at all.
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Actually it's pretty easy to find free streaming services. UStream comes to mind.
But you need to have all the copyrights in place. If you're generating your own content that is not a problem.
 
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