Emmis Says Goodbye To Hot 93.3

[mmnassour]

We're all wrong. KGSR moves to 93.3 and 107.1 goes Spanish.
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2009/11/19/kgsr_moving_to_933_1071_becomi.html

Well, there's good talent for any Spanish format on the Austin streets right now...I sure hope some of the can hook up w/the new station at 107.1.  Was it supposed to be on, what, in a week?

[Blacknight]

The last song they played as Hot 93.3 was Mims "This Is Why I'm Hot". The first song they played as 93.3 KGSR was from INXS. Well that was a wrap for Hot. 6 years long, 6 years strong. That was about how long The Beat 104.3 lasted the first time. (June 1998 - July 2004). Sad.

[sox fan matt]

When did hot go off the air offically and the website taken down??

[marioj]

The last song they played as Hot 93.3 was Mims "This Is Why I'm Hot". The first song they played as 93.3 KGSR was from INXS. Well that was a wrap for Hot. 6 years long, 6 years strong. That was about how long The Beat 104.3 lasted the first time. (June 1998 - July 2004). Sad.

The first 93.3 KGSR song was actually "What's the Frequency Kenneth" by REM (appropriate, n'est ce pas?).  Here's hoping the move to the stronger signal doesn't water down everything that made 107.1 great; comparing today's playlist to the one from two weeks ago, it looks a little less adventurous to me (don't remember ever hearing INXS on 107.1, for instance).

[Blacknight]

When did hot go off the air offically and the website taken down??

Hot 93.3 went off at 4:57pm after the "This Is Why I'm Hot" by Mims was done. The website was taken down probably either yesterday or early this morning, but if you go onto www.hot933.fm, you will see a Thank You letter posted for all the Hot 93.3 listeners to look at.

[fredcantu]

Is the ''Local 107'' Hybrid Digital channel still on 107.1-2 or did it move over to 93.3?

[jras20]

Is the ''Local 107'' Hybrid Digital channel still on 107.1-2 or did it move over to 93.3?

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They fliped the HD-2 channel from 107.1 to 93.3, the 107.1 has no HD side channel on but is broadcasting in HD.

[JohnLeeHendrix]

I drove 93.3 back in the 70's when it was still licensed to Killeen. PM drive. I had left the station in 1980 to go back to TV but spent 5 years at the old KIXS. Those days most everyone had FM converters driving the AM in the car...93.3 would wipe out KLBJ almost to Florence...how times change.

[prodigy3]

Then entire situation angers me.. I'm 18 and I live in San Antonio now, my mother is military and when I lived on Fort Hood I remember listening to Hot all the time ... That station was what inspired me to get into radio, after I moved to San Antonio there were some changes that I didn't like such as their new voice overs and their programming was little different but I still had a lot of respect for how Hot represented Hip Hop in the Austin community.. I saw them "beat" their competition on several occasions.. It bothers me so much that a company like Emmis that has the reputation and resources to really get into the community would abandon the Hip Hop community of Austin and Central Texas.. Hot's ratings were at the top in Killeen and Waco and they were doing real good in Austin... I think that Texas radio is mediocre and all the stations in San Antonio and Austin are some of there worst... And the websites of the Top40 and Rhythmic stations out here are insulting look at the Beats, (in San Antonio and Austin) and Kiss and Mix they are horrible they all look watered down at least Hot took enough pride to bring professionalism into this pretty young audience based genre... And as far as the new Beat in Austin I see it going nowhere at all, I wish that Austin had an Urban station like the hip hop stations on the East coast at lease they play the new songs over and over instead the old ones (with Ryan Secrest   ) DONE WITH RADIO IN AUSTIN (BEEN DONE WITH SAN ANTONIO)

[Mark Decker]

Could it be they couldn't sell it well enough?  I guess ratings wouldn't mean squat if it didn't translate into sales.