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Post by Timmy on Jun 4, 2013 15:11:24 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jun 5, 2013 7:43:47 GMT -6
They want to keep the top 25 markets only huh? Darn, just missed. As a reference point, Disney paid $3.7 million for the station back in 2003. (The towers and land were apparently leased to Disney.) The market, both nationally and locally, has changed a lot since then though. Remember that a whole bunch of new stations will be coming on the air as soon as everyone gets their act together. In my opinion, a rimshot FM beats an AM any day. So what would somebody do with 910? The easy and boring possibility would be that the new owners would keep it with Radio Disney. I don't think that's too likely though. Keeping in mind it's AM, the only music format I immediately see as being viable is nostalgia. It's been tried a few times, and hasn't seemed all that successful. Sports talk? There is a glut of sports radio networks out there. They might be able to pick up one that's being underrepresented, but I'm not even sure who's running what these days. (Sorry, I'm not a big sports radio fan. If someone could chime in on that and give me a scorecard I'd appreciate it.) All-comedy has been tried in a few markets with some success. That could work on AM. I wonder if Bonneville has considered an all-news station to complement KSL. They could simulcast during the existing news blocks and run (or rerun) the news on 910 when KSL is doing talk. And of course it could go with a Spanish language format of some kind. Any other ideas?
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Post by henry on Jun 5, 2013 12:27:45 GMT -6
A KSL competitor won't happen. The only Deseret Media property making money now is Newsradio. So they aren't going to mess with the cash cow. Desnews is still at a small loss. Deseret Book is losing money. Even Studio 5 and TV news aren't doing great. Hear there's a BIG shakeup in the works over at TV, but that's third-hand.
A religious ministry will likely buy AM 910 and that will be that. Guessing it goes for $900,000.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jun 5, 2013 20:55:52 GMT -6
910 going religious gave me a thought. We've talked about Family Radio's problems. So is everyone else. The trend they seem to be following now is cashing out big stations for smaller stations and pocketing the cash difference. They could try doing a three way swap and selling 91.7 to some other party and moving KUFR to 910. They can claim it isn't much of a difference and get some operating money.
Just a thought.
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Post by David on Jun 7, 2013 13:07:22 GMT -6
Nostalgia or rock and roll oldies (i.e. 1955-1975 hits) don't have much competition in the Salt Lake market since KDYL was leased to CRI, but as much as I'd like to see either one of those formats return to the AM dial, I don't think it's going to happen. Most advertisers don't consider us old farts (50+) as a desirable demographic even though the 50 and over crowd is extremely loyal. KSOP-AM has a crappy signal after sundown anywhere north of Salt Lake, and since 910 has a pretty decent signal in the northern part of the state at night, I can see someone wanting to compete with 1370 and a classic country format--maybe. Most likely scenario is we'll get another news/talk, Spanish language, religious or sports talk station, though. The AM band in the Salt Lake market is already saturated with those formats, so why not go totally overboard and soak the sponge completely?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jun 7, 2013 19:36:42 GMT -6
Classic country would have to be done right. 700 did classic country back in the early part of the century when it was KWLW and IIRC did pretty well. Then 700/860/910 did the three way shuffle and Disney moved from 860 to 910, KALL moved from 910 to 700 and 860 picked up classic country. The 860 was a satellite format and did very poorly. It wasn't until it went local after The End got upgraded and 107.5 started simulcasting with 860 that it did well, although probably a lot of that was listening on the FM. Then 860 split off and went True Oldies next I think. I don't think it's been a player since. I think I've said before that if Cumulus could recreate Country Legends (maybe on 860 or even better on 101.9) they could have something. Maybe a third party could try it on 910 as well.
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Post by kenglish on Jun 10, 2013 6:03:06 GMT -6
BBC World Service would be great, if they gave some local avails. It was "filler" on 1010 for a long time.
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Post by kenglish on Jul 10, 2013 6:37:13 GMT -6
With no offers on the table, Radio Disney is taking 910 silent. The EAS PEP duties are being moved to KSL-AM right now, so you may want to verify monitoring assignments soon.
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Post by seattlefollower on Jul 10, 2013 9:08:16 GMT -6
Although not in Utah, I think KSL originating the PEP has to be better! I'm a bit surprised it's not KUER or KUSU now that they've both grown their network statewide so much, too.
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Post by Timmy on Jul 10, 2013 15:29:20 GMT -6
Can I be educated a little on this? I understand EAS but what is the PEP part? Why would they put it on a smallish AM signal, as opposed to KSL being the elephant in the AM room, so to speak? Thanks for clarifying all this for me.
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Post by dxstuboy on Jul 10, 2013 18:27:36 GMT -6
Interesting to know KWDZ was the PEP. KSL makes more sense.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jul 11, 2013 5:00:19 GMT -6
Timmy, it's the Primary Entry Point. See www.fema.gov/primary-entry-point-stationsI'm surprised it was KWDZ too. I would have thought the 50kw blowtorch KSL would be the natural choice. Maybe Disney/ABC made a deal with a bunch of their radio and/or TV stations and 910 came along with the deal. Or maybe because it's always running off the bird it would be an easy point to automatically feed to a lot of stations. I don't know. There's more detailed information on the state EAS plan at ksl.com, though it is almost 10 years ago. web.ksl.com/radio/aug_2004eas.doc KSL AM 1160 and KSL-TV 5 are listed as the two main primaries (KSL-FM didn't exist yet), and the secondary primary stations (or something like that) are KWDZ and KODJ. It goes on to say that the only Primary Entry Point was KWDZ even back then. Side note: the number so mistakes and typos in that document is downright embarrassing.
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Post by Timmy on Jul 11, 2013 9:10:43 GMT -6
Thanks CA. 910 is such a teeny signal, but I think I get the concept now.. Thanks again.
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Post by kenglish on Jul 30, 2013 7:38:23 GMT -6
I hear that KWDZ may be on the air a few weeks longer, due to some "paperwork" issues.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jul 30, 2013 22:13:39 GMT -6
In all the records I have, I have no record of KWDZ ever appearing in the ratings. That' even when non-subscribing stations were included. I wonder if anyone actually listens.
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