So did I just lose listening to the Cowboys on 103.9?

91_Aggie said:

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dammit... i had to tune to 1150 this morning on the way in and whatever that national morning show is horrible. then after that it is just about 8 hours of local A&M stuff that just rehashes the same local stuff all day long, except we sometimes get Louie's opinion on some national stuff, but he only says stuff to try to troll fans of teams he doesn't like.

I guess ESPN charges too much for its radio content.

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I actually love listening to Gio and Jones in the morning. I love they don't stick strictly to sports and I find their antics hilarious.

leakypipes said:

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So did I just lose listening to the Cowboys on 103.9?

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This week is a bye week, but a little bird told me the games will still be aired.

Jinx said:

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Still bitter over losing Rock 103.9...

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KTSR 92.1 FTW!

EliteElectric said:

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Jinx said:

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Still bitter over losing Rock 103.9...

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KTSR 92.1 FTW!

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I didn't know that station existed.
Are they local?

Scruffy said:

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I didn't know that station existed.
Are they local?

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They used to be. A long time ago. Bryan Broadcasting flipped that station in 2003, it became Candy 95.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNDE

Oh. Thanks.

TXCityGirl said:

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This is terrible news. I prefer national sports radio. I would love to know who to send a complaint to here locally.

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Ummm, not sure a complaint works for this. the market is going to determine what is viable here. and apparently there is not a big enough market to support 24 hour ESPN radio shows.... otherwise 103.9 probably would not have changed formats.

Of course, I can't figure out why they think we need a 3rd Classic rock station. 99.5 Rock has that covered.. .and 106.9 comes in clear from Houston. Seems like the same bad decision making that Fowl Digits made when opening right between Laynes and Raising Caines.

They would probably keep more listeners if they quit screwing it up every other week. I find it hard to believe it was not an extremely popular station. Out of 100 guys I work with I know almost half of them listen every morning and afternoon.

soso33 said:

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I'm not a fan of the audio compression used for satellite radio. Sibilants are really annoying to listen to when they've been artifacted by compression. Some stations are better than others, but compared to FM or even AM, satellite has a lot of audio quality issues to address before I will listen to it on a regular basis.

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Agreed. Sound is so bad that satellite is basically unlistenable for me.

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Sound is so bad that satellite is basically unlistenable for me.

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The problem is content. There really aren't any great terrestrial stations around here.

THANK GOODNESS!!! I missed 103.9 since they went to the ESPN junk. I'm going to have to write a thank you letter to them!

Have you listened to "The Wolf" yet? It's the exact same format as "The Fox." Literally no listeners benefited from the format change.

I listened some today; and yes it it the same as 99.5.

I'm hoping this is just a temporary thing and they realize there's a market for rock/alternative in the area.

I never understood why we lost our only rock station. I also hate that 99.5 plays the same songs over and over. I can only take so much Aerosmith.

Heismenberg said:

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I never understood why we lost our only rock station. I also hate that 99.5 plays the same songs over and over. I can only take so much Aerosmith.

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Sounds like someone may....






...Fear The Reaper?

FNG said:

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Heismenberg said:

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I never understood why we lost our only rock station. I also hate that 99.5 plays the same songs over and over. I can only take so much Aerosmith.

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Sounds like someone may....






...Fear The Reaper?

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Wrong band.

I'm going to need you to...
WalkThis Way

I know it's the wrong band but rhoswen once labeled it the "Fear the Reaper" station. It stuck.

91_Aggie said:

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TXCityGirl said:

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This is terrible news. I prefer national sports radio. I would love to know who to send a complaint to here locally.

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Ummm, not sure a complaint works for this. the market is going to determine what is viable here. and apparently there is not a big enough market to support 24 hour ESPN radio shows.... otherwise 103.9 probably would not have changed formats.

Of course, I can't figure out why they think we need a 3rd Classic rock station. 99.5 Rock has that covered.. .and 106.9 comes in clear from Houston. Seems like the same bad decision making that Fowl Digits made when opening right between Laynes and Raising Caines.

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https://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/108804/classic-rock-wolf-debuts-in-college-station/

FTA:
"KJXJ registered a 0.9 share in the Spring 2016 Nielsen Audio ratings. Its new target KNFX held a 6.4 share."

According to the Nielsen website, the ratings have gone like this -

Station: Fall14, Spring15, Fall15, Spring16

KNFX-FM: 3.4, 4.5, 5.8, 6.4

KJXJ-FM: 2.0,1.5,1.0, 0.9

So basically, 1039's ratings were pretty bad when it was rock before, so they tried something new in spring of 2015 and went sports... and lost half their already paltry market share. Meanwhile, the Fox went from struggling to rather healthy.

Even if 1039 only poaches a third of 995's listening audience, they double their ratings, and thus their advertising rates. That's probably the thinking behind the decision, anyway - and really, they didn't have anything to lose with ratings that low.

I've seen this happen every time a station's format changes (and 1039's changed like a half dozen times in the last 15 years)... everybody always talks about how everybody they know loved the station, but obviously, those people are not the ones filling out listener diaries for ratings.

Driving home at 5pm, if I flip to 99.5, I can almost guarantee hearing a Boston song. And my commute is only about 10 minutes. I would flip because Pawl had some slack-jawed yokel screaming about their beloved Bama.

FNG said:

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Idea

KC Wheeler and classics in the morning

Kotter middays with 90's and alternative music

Bring back Dee for afternoon/evening playing a mix of both

Find some syndicated talent for nights and overnights

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It would be awesome to have Kotter and Dee back but I don't see it happening. It was a bad decision IMO to chanel from Aggieland Rocks to ESPN radio.

We need 92.1 KTSR back

AGnCS said:

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We need 92.1 KTSR back

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Yeah. I remember that. Every other song was Phil Collins.

"92.1!!!! The Home of Rock 'not Roll!!!!!"
As Sussusudio kicks in.

Well there was a period when it was a really good station.

AOR is pretty much dead though.

Albums are pretty much dead

Fascinating. I'm surprised ESPN fared so poorly. I would have expected so-so ratings that didn't justify the ESPN license. But 1/2 the audience of Rock 103.9? Geeeez.

Going to be an uphill battle getting 1/3 of the listenership of the flagship classic rock station with no differentiation. Probably should have eaten crow and gone back to the "Rock 103.9" format. I'm expecting a (more subtle) format shift here within a year.

patrick.redmill said:

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Fascinating. I'm surprised ESPN fared so poorly. I would have expected so-so ratings that didn't justify the ESPN license. But 1/2 the audience of Rock 103.9? Geeeez.

Going to be an uphill battle getting 1/3 of the listenership of the flagship classic rock station with no differentiation. Probably should have eaten crow and gone back to the "Rock 103.9" format. I'm expecting a (more subtle) format shift here within a year.

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Well, if you think about it, two stations with the same format doesn't mean they're perfectly redundant. As I listened in the car at lunch today, I found that I could switch back and forth between the two when a song came on I didn't care for, or one or the other went to commercial. More choice is always good for the consumer, and competition is what drives things to improve. But it is a shame about ESPN, I was really getting to like Dan Le Batard.

I have kept from listening to 103.9 on purpose. Twice they changed the format from one I liked to something crappy. This is probably why they have lost so many people.

Would normally listen to College Gameday right now while running errands but it's not there.

Bummer.

103.9 carrying Ole Miss/LSU tonight and saying that broadcast crew is ESPN radio.

Weird.

seemed like they had a niche here as the only all day free radio national sports talk station. i wonder if satellite radio killed them, or can people here just not get enough of local Aggie sports coverage?