Humpy Peak, The Blaze and stuff

[CAwasinNJ]

Continuation of the Humpy Peak discussion started in talkingutahradio.proboards.com/thread/1713/classical-89-lives?page=2

A slight correction to what Michael was talking about. One of the companies that put the Humpy stations on the air was 3 Point Media, not Points. I was resisting making a comment about the company name but I can't resist anymore. I have to give them credit for one of the most clever company names I've ever heard of. I don't know if this was what they were thinking, but I have to think it was. I'm pretty sure the name is a reference to basketball. If you think about a far away shot from "3 point land" that pretty much describes what the main and boosters are doing. The boosters are the shooting players from outside the arc and the main is the basket. Perfect.

And yes I do remember The Blaze. That got very confusing after a while. There were combinations of The Blaze and Mag Dog on 102.3 and 103.9 I believe and they kept moving around. The Blaze ended up eventually on 94.9 which became KHTB which as I heard was a reference to "Hot 94.9 The Blaze." After 3 Point lost the 94.9 facility The Blaze then moved to 97.5 where it eventually died. All of that hurts my brain.

[oldiesfunhouse]

                                        

Ironic, that, because the flagship station of the Utah Jazz is now one of those "faraway" stations at 97.5 KZNS-FM licensed to Coalville where the Blaise used to be and I believe one of their players, Joe Ingles, was one of the top three-point shooters in the league this year.  I wish they could get boosters in both the Sandy area and in Wendover. They come in pretty well where I live in Rose Park but the FM doesn't do well at all in Sandy and whenever the Bees or the Aggies play at the same time they get put on the AM 1280 while the Jazz are on the FM.

[CAwasinNJ]

KZNS-FM does have a booster covering the Sandy area. It's KZNS-FM4 from Ensign Peak. Wendover has no chance for a booster since it's way too far outside the station's coverage area. LHM could apply for a full power station out there if they actually wanted to, but they wouldn't gain anything by doing that so I can't see that happening.

[oldiesfunhouse]

        Makes sense, especially since the signals are all available over the internet. And the NBA only charges ten bucks a season to be able to hear the streams of any games in the league, home or away feed, online.  What is the farthest out a station like that can have boosters? Or does it just depend on each individual station's license? (I hope it's okay to ask questions like this t        hat the     rest of you all probably already know the answers to well.)

[amanuensis]

You can download the Utah Jazz app for free and listen to the radio broadcasts for free, as long as the app judges that you are using it within the Salt Lake market area. Specifically, "within a 75-mile radius of Vivint Smart Home Arena as defined and regulated by NBA broadcast policy." I use it for this purpose when I am home and just want the audio on in the background while I am doing something else. The stream sounds a lot better than the radio station does where I live in West Jordan.

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yinzcam.nba.jazz

[CAwasinNJ]

Boosters can't be used to extend the coverage area. They're used to supplement a signal when the main signal is blocked by things like terrain or buildings. In this case, all those mountains between Humpy Peak and the Salt Lake metro absorb the signal and it can't get through well, so the boosters are put in to offset that.