Houston commercial classical station is no more
 

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.

I recall that Clear Cut was to buy this station.

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.

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

Bill in SE Texas

"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.

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

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

A terrible shame, any warning?
A

A terrible shame, any warning?

I read of a possible change in Hoston back when the total loss of NYC's
classical stations were discussed.

By the way... This station had a classical format once before, years ago, as
KLEF.

Bill
SE Texas

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.

Thanks to satellite and Internet-- Houston has a number of choices for
classical music. That's probably one of the reasons KRTS cashed out.
They're competing against the new technologies-- not just the non-comm down
the dial-- for the classical audience.

In article , says...
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 to satellite and Internet-- Houston has a number of choices for
| classical music. That's probably one of the reasons KRTS cashed out.
| They're competing against the new technologies-- not just the non-comm down
| the dial-- for the classical audience.

The movie has played before. KLEF (94.5) went to oldies of the
non-symphonic variety in 1986. It donated its classical record
library to KUHF, which flipped from its all-jazz format as a result.
There were howls in all directions, ultimately to no effect.
It did cause the Houston Chronicle to rediscover radio as a topic of
coverage for a few months.


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