Since KLOL-101’s abrupt switch of format from album rock to Latino music, Ken Charles and Clear Channel have certainly generated a buzz.
The news has been on television. The news has been on other radio stations. The news has been on blogs. The news has even led to at least two online petitions.
With its death, KLOL has generated more buzz than it has generated in ages.
I’m starting to wonder if that’s as coincidental as it seems.
Does anyone else remember the big controversy that ensued when 107.5 “The Buzz” FM announced that it would be closing up shop — only to have the news trickle out a bit later that the alternative station would actually be swapping places on the dial with another Clear Channel station (moving to 94.5)?
What about the buzz Ken Charles generated when he dropped CBS News from KPRC after the Rathergate controversy?
And not all that long ago, he generated buzz in reaction to the agreement between Jerry Jones and Bob McNair not to offer Dallas Cowboys games on the radio to the Houston market (he wasn’t able to pick up the Cowboys radio network, but instead a generic broadcast of selected Cowboys games).
I’m not saying that Charles has definitely pulled another publicity stunt and that a resurrected KLOL is going miraculously to reappear on the Houston radio dial. Only Ken Charles and the Clear Channel crew know that. But I am saying it wouldn’t shock me.
