DoubleT now has a website

[jjones596]

What do you guys think?  www.doublet1043.com

[Old Nick]

I can't believe any one still even MENTIONS that station...I go away for two months and Double T is still the topic dujour on this site.  That station was STILLBORN.  It has the worst coverage of any station around and other than football season it will never rise above a 2.5 share (after year one, 1.5-2.0 will be their norm).  The folks at Texas Tech have got to be kicking the crap out of themselves right now-they lost a station with a killer reach and lost stations all over the region in the process.   The only way you're going to be able to hear a decent football broadcast is if Mike Leach starts a "pirate" radio station.

[nutpos]

Steve Dale is that you?

[EggsOverEasy87]

Well it only took them a few months......

[Garrett]

Check it out!
It's fully launched now!
http://www.doublet1043.com/default.aspx

Not bad huh?

BTW: I've seen a lot of complaints about a this station not having a website ready to go. I do not think that was fair in this case. It can take MONTHS to design something that is professional, not to mention all the server space and domain registration that is involved. Considering what is up there now, I think it was worth the wait. I've also seen stations go for much longer with a lot less. Double T is a station that was starting from scratch, so cut them some slack.

Just my 2 Cents worth..

[static]

Old Nick, why would Tech be kicking themselves? I thought years ago the biggest mistake made with Tech football was taking them off of KFYO. Now they're back on a powerful AM station. I've listened to 950 in Abilene and all the was past Guthrie in Benjamin. Tech Talk has gotten calls from people listening in the northern Panhandle. It never made sense in recent years, that the one sport on KFYO was the Lady Raiders. It's not like there's big political discussions on Saturday's in the fall for Sean Hannity to mimic Rush about. They even aired the spring football game on 790 a few years ago, which I thought meant they were going to put football there.

I bet Tech is plenty happy. I can't get 1340 at home, can't even get it driving around town at night. Now they've got two FM stations, the powerful AM and even TV coverage with the radio call on 34.2 all across the area. And just serving from memory, it looks like there are more stations across the region than earlier years airing football, though they don't have good stations in Dallas.

The new website looks pretty good. Lots of stations claim to have a great site, but it's just the same national content with a station logo. At least they have original local content. Main thing I use it for is streaming, which has been pretty nice.

[Old Nick]

PULEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!  No one with a sane mind or any backgroun in radio (no, they are not mutually exclusive) would say that Double T sounds good on any level.  The signal is bad, the hosts are bad, the coverage of the game is bad, the imaging is bad, the commercials are poorly produced, many people do not even know the station exists, the t.v. simulcast is a joke (for those of you who don't know they put an unanimated graphic of a field on the FOX weather channel and repost it with "x" marks to show where the ball is), and NO FROM RAMAR DARES CRITICIZE ANY PART OF THIS CHARADE, lest Tech try to pull the rights and put the crap somewhere else (but Tech needs to learn they've already burned too many bridges).

Pretty appropriate your handle is "Static" 'cause thats what you Ramar stations are giving Tech fans.

[jjones596]

I can say this as a former radio guy (years ago) who now works in a different area of media. Our company has invested a good deal of money in sponsoring programs on that station, including the pregame show. We've been extremely pleased with our results to date so I can tell you that people are listening. I think most of their local programs are far superior to those on 1340 (possible exception is W&H show). We think that the station is performing well and has tremendous upside. And believe me, we are not high on other areas of Ramar radio.

So Old Nick I'd have to disagree with you. Our response rate and traction from the pregame show has been solid and Tech Talk is consistently listened to by our customers. But I think probably some of your points are valid, they are far from perfect.

[Old Nick]

Fair enough.  I'm FOR anybody that supports ANY local radio.  I think I even lost my point which is-there were no great leaps for radio made by launching a sports station on FM.  The station just sounds like an middling AM station that happens to broadcast on FM.  I guess that really doesn't make it good or bad, but it is a long way from the "innovation" and "upgrade" it should have been. 

[crow]

Check it out!
It's fully launched now!
http://www.doublet1043.com/default.aspx

Not bad huh?

BTW: I've seen a lot of complaints about a this station not having a website ready to go. I do not think that was fair in this case. It can take MONTHS to design something that is professional, not to mention all the server space and domain registration that is involved. Considering what is up there now, I think it was worth the wait. I've also seen stations go for much longer with a lot less. Double T is a station that was starting from scratch, so cut them some slack.

Just my 2 Cents worth..

It does not take MONTHS to design something professional. This site is a simple FILL IN THE BLANKS type of site. All it comes down to is, what do you want on your site.... there is nothing spectacular about this site and what it offers. It's the same old, same old. There is no excuse for Ramar NOT having this site up on launch day. The day they decided to have this station on-air, they should have begun working on the site as well. This DID NOT HAPPEN... we all know this. So, don't be fooled.