El Dorado Radio

[old timer]

El Dorado's Mix96 has been outsourced! No longer any local jocks. Just boring national stuff. XM is better. Where does this end?

[JEL]

damn.this also means no more local music to be played..

[XMer]

I switched over to xm years ago and have never looked back.

[CATMANDO]

Yea I can't stand those 2 goobers that's been on in the morning.They never shut up.

[OliveOyl]

Hey xmer is xm expensive? Just thought I'd ask before checking it out. Can't stand the local stations, hard to pick up out of town stations in my '91.

[roboblogger2]

We've started listening to 91.5 from Grambling for variety. And Randy Guess at 104 in Monroe is really likeable (M-F 10-2).

[Jeff Primm]

Sirius/XM is not expensive at all for all the channels you get. Definitly worth it (in my opinion).........

[XMer]

OliveOyl wrote:

Hey xmer is xm expensive? Just thought I'd ask before checking it out. Can't stand the local stations, hard to pick up out of town stations in my '91.

about 14 bucks a month,
but you get all the musical styles and eras
several entertainment shows and many stand up comedy stations
which is good for long drive to break the monotony

[Im good]

I can handle local radio
but how Sandy Sanford can get three syllables from the Letter M is beyond me.

[OliveOyl]

Thanks all, think I'll check in to xm doesn't sound tooo expensive, at least no more of those DA commercials locally.

[Jay Bradford]

Well I can’t speak to this specific station but radio in general is going this direction and I am not at all surprised that Noalmark (I assume) made this move. In markets the size of El Dorado…or even Little Rock…live air talent is a dying thing. Voice tracking and syndicated shows are of “better quality” and less expensive and easier to air.

I too am a XM fan and have had the service for about 6 years now. I don’t even have any of the pre-set’s on my car radio set for terrestrial radio and I listen to XM on line in my office. So many choices and most channels are commercial free. Plus you have the freedom to drive to Dallas and back without trying to find local signals.

However I must say that having spent over a decade working in radio…including El Dorado…it is sad for me to see local live radio die…

[CATMANDO]

I think it would be great if they would get rid of the razorback show on 93.

[JEL]

CATMANDO wrote:

I think it would be great if they would get rid of the razorback show on 93.

I have to disagree

[Downtowner]

I think drive time sports is great on 93. They cover razorbacks, but also do a lot of reporting on high school sports as well.

They cover recruiting for all of the SEC schools and where all of the Arkansas high school kids are being recruited.

Its not like there is a shortage of other stations to listen to if this doesn't interest you, but it is something many of us in South Arkansas appreciate Noalmark doing.

[JEL]

Downtowner wrote:

I think drive time sports is great on 93. They cover razorbacks, but also do a lot of reporting on high school sports as well.
They cover recruiting for all of the SEC schools and where all of the Arkansas high school kids are being recruited.
Its not like there is a shortage of other stations to listen to if this doesn't interest you, but it is something many of us in South Arkansas appreciate Noalmark doing.

I have to agree.

[weather71730]

I also enjoy DTS, but now that MIX is not local, maybe it could move to the 100,000 watt station:)

[Brian Welch]

I have noticed that El Dorado radio station Mix 96 is broadcasting without local disc jockeys and it's kind of weird because I knew they had a dj named JO I remembered that in the mid 1980's KCAJ FM was the urban contemporary format in El Dorado on the same frequency as Mix 96 and the KCAJ station did have local DJs at that time I thought that the manager at Noalmark said that all the six local stations will be more local in closing I hope that the station can hire some new DJs at least 3 or 4 by the way KCAJ was not part of Noalmark

[OliveOyl]

Hey, whatever happened to that DJ named Carl, can't remember the station, but he was always talking @ things that made him FUN to listen to, musta been @ 15 or so years ago, always was keepin someone hacked off.

[Miss Conservative]

Was his name Carl Connerton?

[Jay Bradford]

Carl Stevens? That would be going WAY back!