I was wondering if anyone else is receiving this Austin radio station. I can hear it perfectly. Or is this another new H-town Station?
It cant be another new Houston station... Here stations have to be 0.4 MHz apart. Since KRBE occupies 104.1 MHz frequency the surrounding station can only be 104.5 or 103.7 and from what I've heard 103.7 might be another Cumulus owned station in Houston...possibly a rebroadcast of 97.5
the Beaumont Rock station is 106.1 . 94.1 is the same format as 104. The morning show guys are pretty good though.
All I know is, Houston Radio sucks! It is so worthless! 101.1 was the best station the city ever had, and now they went and messed that up. 102.1 "The Planet" was good while it lasted into the late 90's. 94.5 used to be good in the mid 90's but is different (and crappy now). 104.1 is the worst station ever invented, anywhere. The rap stations 97.9 and 104.(5 or 9, whatever it is) just aren't that good. I wish they would follow the Dallas rap stations. 97.9 and 104.(5 or 9, get the Houston and Dallas ones mixed up) in Dallas are awesome. They have a way better playlist, I believe, then they do in Houston. It's amazing how many more good stations Dallas has than Houston.
Although it is not exactly the same play list, 97.5 is trying to be the new 101. They will be having a "major announcement" on their station "soon". Look for old 101 DJ's to start working the airwaves there soon including Outlaw Dave, Jim Pruett, and posibly Walton and Johnson in the mornings...
Let's not talk about 104.3, please. For about 6 months it was talk radio in Austin, and I really liked the afternoon guy they had on there from Dallas. Then they switched back to rap without any warning. At least I can still get Stern in the mornings... What ever happened to diversity in radio? Geez, corporate radio sucks.
This is from the article drapg posted: KRBE isn't afraid to bounce all over the color line, and even if I find a lot of the pop on there to be crap, I'm not the target audience. Fill in KRBE with MOST other stations, and it's accurate. Complaining about stations that aren't programming for your demographic is silly. It's like me complaining about the Lifetime channel...it's not for me. I agree for the most part that radio stations here aren't great. But my musical tastes are pretty diverse...so i'd have a hard time designing any station to come up with a setlist that I'd enjoy.
That was Russ Martin. I liked listening to Stern in the mornings and Leykis during evenings. I hated the change back to hip-hop too (though they play some real bangers). Infinity made the switch back because of low ratings of course. FM Talk in Austin unfortunately has never been successful for whatever reason.
