Tuned into KTCK-AM (1310) this a.m. for its "big station announcement," which, all things considered, was relatively enormous after all: The station is "the new radio flagship home for Dallas Stars hockey for the next five seasons," said morning-show co-host Craig Miller. The deal starts next season and runs through 2013, and comes complete with pre- and post-game shows. And, yes Daryl Reaugh and Ralph Strangis will continue as the on-air tandem. "Wow," said Reaugh. "What a day." I tried to get
The Snake performing at Ticketstock 2008, as captured by Brian DarleyAnd neither's Mike Rhyner, which you already know if you read Richie's piece last Friday about how "The Hardline" was awful close to moving from KTCK-AM to the recently launched The Fan located at 105.3 on Your FM Dial. Said Rhyner last week, "It was close. Very close. ... [But] in the end game, I just couldn't do it. I couldn't turn away from The Ticket. From what we've built here." And today, the station makes it official wit
Michael InsuasteThom Yorke and Radiohead, seen here at the Superpages.com Center last year, are, apparently, "Quality Rock."Jeff Catlin, operations manager for Cumulus Radio Dallas, says it took all of "five, six weeks, maybe" for station management to decide to drop The Bone and rechristen its classic-rock outlet as "FM93.3 Quality Rock." Says Catlin, The Bone "had needed a face lift for some time" -- because, well, ratings "were not good, which is as simple as I can say it." Hence its debut th
Several Friends of Unfair Park -- which is to say, the handful of people still listening to 93.3 Quality Rock -- have e-mailed me this morning wondering what the what is going on on the left side of the FM dial. Because starting at midnight, the fledgling station began broadcasting a schizophrenic hodgepodge of format promos -- everything from old-school country to classic rock to jazz -- and the Web site now says it's "under construction."Of course, it was just four months ago that Cumulus M
