{"id":356189,"date":"2015-05-22T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=356189"},"modified":"2015-05-24T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T21:11:38","slug":"ktbb-now-on-97-5-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=356189","title":{"rendered":"KTBB Now on 97.5 FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/thumb_gleiser_convention_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/thumb_gleiser_convention_1.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_gleiser_convention_1\" width=\"160\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-356190\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; KTBB is now at 97.5 FM, covering all of East Texas.  According to Owner-General Manager Paul Gleiser, it&#8217;s a big step for the station &#8212; and our listeners.    &#8220;One of the problems we&#8217;ve always had is that our AM signal has to change at night, and we lose a lot of people, particularly to the east in Longview,&#8221; says Gleiser.  &#8220;That won&#8217;t happen anymore.&#8221;  And Gleiser says there&#8217;s even more to the big switch.   &#8220;Lots and lots of news\/talk stations are moving to the FM band; it&#8217;s a trend in the industry,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;I want to be on the leading edge of that trend, rather than the trailing edge.   This is something that excites me &#8212; we&#8217;ve been trying to get this done for a long, long time.&#8221;  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Gleiser, &#8220;The biggest advantage is you don&#8217;t have all the compromises of the AM band.   We don&#8217;t have to change power at night, we don&#8217;t have to change our directional pattern at night&#8230;we cover the same territory day and night; it&#8217;s just a better experience for the listener&#8230;and we hope people will set a new button.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; KTBB is now at 97.5 FM, covering all of East Texas. According to Owner-General Manager Paul Gleiser, it&#8217;s a big step for the station &#8212; and our listeners. &#8220;One of the problems we&#8217;ve always had is that our AM signal has to change at night, and we lose a lot of people, particularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=356189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KTBB Now on 97.5 FM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":356190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 11:51:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356342,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356189\/revisions\/356342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/356190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}