"WShoots1" wrote in message
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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.

Your opinion.

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

You did not search well enough.

I recall that Clear Cut was to buy this station.

No, it was not. ever. Radio One bought it, and the calls stand for Radio
One, Inc.

This station in Seabrook, TX, southeast of Houston, had changed formats
and
call signs several times in its 25-30 year life, but KRTS with classical
music
had lasted for at least ten years.

But the owner wanted to cash out, which is his right.

An NPR station is now the only classical music station in the Houston
area.

Leaving it with more classical than most US markets.

I agree with you, Al. And thanks to David and, especially, Mark for the
details.

There are two jazz stations in the Houston market. My favotire is KTSU, a
university station on 90.0. It has cool jazz and blues, among other things.

The other is KHJZ, smooth jazz (which I don't care as much for) on 95.7. They
really bug me with their constant cutsie imaging --The Wa-a-ave, even between
selections in the alleged sets.

I like the Sunday jazz brunch on Clear Channel's Sunny 99 (99.1). I don't
recall ever hearing its call letters. I guess I'll look 'em up in the FCC data
base. It does play better rock classics than KROI does.

I'd listen to big band KBME on 790 AM, except its signal is weak where I live.
Too, it has many more commercials since the production group got tossed from
its format-changed FM home.

(I'm listening to New Age music on KUHF right now. G)

Bill, K5BY
SE Texas

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I like the Sunday jazz brunch on Clear Channel's Sunny 99 (99.1). I don't
recall ever hearing its call letters. I guess I'll look 'em up in the FCC data
base. It does play better rock classics than KROI does.

Bill,
Sunny is (or at least was) KODA.



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Thanks, Paul. KODA it is. I used to listen to KODA (the call) when it played
easy listen music on AM. G

And Mark... I was thinking KLEF was the station that gave its classical library
to KUHF. I didn't know KUHF was a jazz station before, though.

KTSU is my favorite jazz station. (Could they have received KUHF's jazz
library?) Sometimes the signal received here on the western shore of Galveston
Bay is marginal -- part weather, part bracketed by high powered, maybe
overmodulating Xian stations, I believe.

To Fred et al.: I doubt the Internet is much of a threat, because expensive
bandwidth limits the amount of listeners who can be served at one time. But
those two satellite radio services are a big threat.

On the other hand, there are jillions of cheap radios out there that people
listen to. Of course, digital radio, if it becomes mandatory, will kill that
market. What are the authorities thinking? Heck, I have AM/FM/SW receivers that
cost under $10; the better ones under $20. (I also have even better ones than
those.)

Bill,
SE Texas