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As goes Waco radio, so goes - the nation’s radio?
By Carl Hoover
| Thursday, December 27, 2007, 11:10 AM
Here’s a story that I pushed to a back burner in the busy days before Christmas: Country music is the nation’s most popular radio format, with 2,054 stations
broadcasting that format. Next is news-talk with 2,026 stations, contemporary Christian (920), Spanish-language (917), adult contemporary (666) and Top 40 (495).
Compare that to the Waco market where the dominant station by far is country WACO-FM (with KYCX-FM and its “George” country format yet to make a dent in the Waco market). Then there’s four news-talk stations (KWTX-AM, KBCT-FM, sports KRZI-AM and Christian KBBW-AM), two contemporary Christian (KBDE-FM and KSUR-FM), two Spanish language (KWOW-FM and KDOS-FM, simulcast from Dallas), one contemporary hits (KWTX-FM) and one adult contemporary (KLRK-FM). Waco also has a rock station (KBRQ-FM) and an oldies station (KBGO-FM), formats that were farther down the list, but it’s interesting how closely the format types here track the national numbers.
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By Clyde L Harris
December 29, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this
You mean somebody actually listens to a radio anymore. Is radio going the way of the 4 track and 8 tracks to dinasourville?
We have one station in Hillsboro and it is as modern as the tin-lizzy.
Are there any live broadcasts, not counting announcers of whom I am not too sure of anyway, aka Prairie Home Companion type format? The only form of audience participation is finding a clear signal on their radio.
I think Erin Quinn would make a good emcee for such a program format.