RadioBanter - View Single Post - Houston commercial classical station is no more

September 18th 04, 07:42 PM

On 18 Sep 2004 04:34:05 GMT, (WShoots1) wrote:

It finally happened. Houston's only commercial classical music station, KRTS
92.1, is dark. Well, not exactly. It is now KROI, with a format of the worst
music of the Nam era -- the whiny, twangy crap.

Strange, though. The FCC's data base still shows KRTS on 92.1 with the owner as
KRTS, LP. KROI is shown as unassigned.

The FCC is notoriously slow to update its on-line database.

I recall that Clear Cut was to buy this station.

The station was purchased by Radio One, not Clear Channel. As
reported in Radio & Records, the new KROI, which joins CHR/Rhythmic
KBXX and Urban AC KMJQ in Houston in Radio One's Houston cluster, will
go head-to-head against Clear Channel's crosstown Hot AC KHMX (Mix
96.5).

Mark Howell