What has happened to KOOL 106???

[TURobY]

I didn't realize that people even listened to radio anymore for music, considering the vast amount of higher-quality and more personalized options that are available, such as personal music devices (iPod/Zune/etc.), CDs, satellite services (Sirius XM), and flash storage.

I suppose I could see listening to the radio for news/talk radio or sports broadcasting.

[sgrizzle]

I didn't realize that people even listened to radio anymore for music, considering the vast amount of higher-quality and more personalized options that are available, such as personal music devices (iPod/Zune/etc.), CDs, satellite services (Sirius XM), and flash storage.

I suppose I could see listening to the radio for news/talk radio or sports broadcasting.

Given that every option you gave costs money, and radio is free, yes.

I mainly listen in my car and when I do I listen to my mp3's, podcasts, audiobooks and to internet radio (like satellite radio, but without the monthly fee) as well as KRMG in the morning and sometimes KMYZ on the way home.

So even I, in the 99.9th Geek percentile, listen to local radio to some degree.

[FOTD]

Tulsa is a terrible radio town and has been for long time.  Probably explains why it was such a successful MTV launch city.  I now have SIRIUS and no longer have to suffer with local radio.  That said, Christmas tunes starting on Oct. 31 is just wrong.

Love it....you are cutting edge personalizing your choices with the deep and various choices on SIRIUS!
Ch. 65 and you might hear FOTD's theme song. And there's Howard Stern, sports, real news, and just everything ever great in music. What a mass of choices! Local radio will be obsolete once SIRIUS figures a way to localfi a station. The churches and other fear peddlers will buy up those available open FM and AM channels. Watch.

[buckeye]

Sad thing is that .mp3, HD radio, Siruis/XM and most internet radio are not nearly the fidelity of good FM.  Listen to 88.7 on an HD radio side-by-side with a decent FM tuner.  No comparison, the HD is full of really gnarly artifacts.

[stageidea]

I wonder what is the issue with HD not actually being superior to FM.  I wonder if a full on Digital signal in HD would be better.  Or is it an issue with using hybrid broadcasters..

[patric]

I wonder what is the issue with HD not actually being superior to FM.

Over-compression.

[sgrizzle]

If it's artifacts, then it could just as easy be poor signal strength.

[Conan71]

Love it....you are cutting edge personalizing your choices with the deep and various choices on SIRIUS!
Ch. 65 and you might hear FOTD's theme song. And there's Howard Stern, sports, real news, and just everything ever great in music. What a mass of choices! Local radio will be obsolete once SIRIUS figures a way to localfi a station. The churches and other fear peddlers will buy up those available open FM and AM channels. Watch.

They aren't out of the woods just yet.  Obviously, subscription TV (cable/sat) has worked out well, subscription radio, even with all it's advantages has done nothing but struggle.  Let's see what Liberty Media does with it, have they started packaging it with their television services? 

[buckeye]

HD radio suffers from a startlingly low bitrate that's further castrated by additional streams (KWTU has 3).  Ibuiqity says their algorithm compensates for said bitrate, but I've searched the pudding to no avail.

[sauerkraut]

Tulsa is a terrible radio town and has been for long time.  Probably explains why it was such a successful MTV launch city.  I now have SIRIUS and no longer have to suffer with local radio.  That said, Christmas tunes starting on Oct. 31 is just wrong.

I listen mostly to talk radio on 740 am and 1170 KFAQ and they are not bad. I wish they had Laura Ingram on live at 8:am instead of a recorded show in the evening. As for music stations I wish Tulsa had a early 80's / late 70's radio station that had all hits from the late 1970's into the early 1980's. IMO some the best music is from the early 1980's.

[Hoss]

I listen mostly to talk radio on 740 am and 1170 KFAQ and they are not bad. I wish they had Laura Ingram on live at 8:am instead of a recorded show in the evening. As for music stations I wish Tulsa had a early 80's / late 70's radio station that had all hits from the late 1970's into the early 1980's. IMO some the best music is from the early 1980's.

If they have Laura Ingraham on it, I consider it bad.

[AngieB]

I listen mostly to talk radio on 740 am and 1170 KFAQ and they are not bad. I wish they had Laura Ingram on live at 8:am instead of a recorded show in the evening. As for music stations I wish Tulsa had a early 80's / late 70's radio station that had all hits from the late 1970's into the early 1980's. IMO some the best music is from the early 1980's.

That's pretty much what we just lost with KQLL/(no longer) KOOL 106.

My prediction is January 1 we will be hearing Rush Limbaugh on KQLL. The company that syndicates Rush is a subsidiary of Clear Channel. I say they will pull Rush from KRMG and start a new conservative talk station. As if we need another.

[Conan71]

That's pretty much what we just lost with KQLL/(no longer) KOOL 106.

My prediction is January 1 we will be hearing Rush Limbaugh on KQLL. The company that syndicates Rush is a subsidiary of Clear Channel. I say they will pull Rush from KRMG and start a new conservative talk station. As if we need another.

Can't imagine why they would, they've already got him on the FM dial at 102.3 for the KRMG simulcast. 

[AngieB]

Can't imagine why they would, they've already got him on the FM dial at 102.3 for the KRMG simulcast. 

KRMG is Cox. KQLL is Clear Channel. Clear Channel owns Rush. Do the math.

[Red Arrow]

IMO some the best music is from the early 1980's.

I stopped listening to current music with DISCO.  Give me moldy oldies (50s thru early 70s) or Classical.