Houston's only newstation (92.1FM) just became "All-Beyonce" station - Radio - - Page 3 - City-Data Forum

case44 · 10-14-2014, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by HouTxn

Beyonce? I just threw up in my mouth.

You'll throw up even more when you find out that they've changed formats again.

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I really will miss News 92. It was different (in one sense), but badly needed when a void needed to be filled. I used to listen to it from my perch in Dallas from time to time on my computer. It used to be on my dial settings whenever I'd gone to Houston, but not anymore. We'll wonder now if an AM station (one not called KTRH) is willing to try its hand at this. And bye-bye, Beyoncé.

DanielAvery · 10-16-2014, 06:39 PM

You guys got it easy with Beyoncé. We got...Radio Macarena! Yes, "Macarena" played on a loop for three days straight, with realistic-sounding promos in between, while our FM talk station switched to country.

I guess three days of stunt format is a good palate cleanser. Everybody tunes in and out, for obvious reasons, but feels curious enough to drop in occasionally to see what eventually happens. They would not be able to sell ad time during the transition due to the lack of ratings info/background, and dead air is verboten on radio, so this is a clever compromise.

When this happened I had no concept of stunt formatting as a means of changing from one permanent format to another, so I was...well, quite horrified. Now I just look back and laugh at how they made the best of a bad situation.

DRob4JC · 10-26-2014, 07:43 PM

This works for me when I am not listening to Christian or sports programming. Hopefully they will have some mixing down the road.

My problem is the quality. What works for an mp3 file played on your home computer does NOT work for on air broadcasting. Some of the stuff on 102 sounds like it is streaming over the Internet. yesterday I was listening to 92 and you could tell that the file was poorly recorded with some clipping at the loud parts. Some songs are also over compressed and the bass is absent. Ugh... like nails on a chalkboard sometimes.