New hit country station in Hot Springs

[ThaDude]

There's a new country station in Hot Springs with the call letters KIXV?? they are calling theirselvs The Spur.

found them on 93.5fm.

[surprisesurprisesurprise]

Yeah, it would have just been TOO stupid for Noalmark to continue their Kix brand, especially since the calls ALREADY HAVE THE NAME IN IT. Who is running that place?

[Lancer]

That's an interesting find.  Oddly, looks like the COL is Bismarck.  Tower is near Alpine & barely has a local contour into Hot Springs.  ERP is 11,500 watts on a 500 foot stick.

[surprisesurprisesurprise]

Your post must have scared them. Now they're going to put the new country station on 101 where KLEZ was at and put EZ on their new Spur signal...While this will give the country station a greater chance to compete with US, it essentially kills KLEZ due to most of their audience being in Hot Springs Village. Of course, KLEZ has been treated like nothing better than a jukebox for a while anyway. Such a shame because KLEZ is such a jewel in the area. And, if you look at the ratings, the station in Hot Springs Village with basically the same format pulls just nearly as many numbers as the 100,000 watt KLAZ.

[Lancer]

Hate to hear that because I stay in the Village when I'm frequently in Arkansas.  How many country stations do we really need?  If someone would play some classic country like Merle Haggard, George Jones, Marty Robbins, etc - now that would be something to promote.  Otherwise it is another cookie-cutter station with the same 10 songs by today's one-hit-wonders over & over.

FWIW I like the EZ format much better than KLAZ - the latter being a bunch of screechy garbage on a huge signal.