What would you do with....The Translators
Aug 7, 2023 17:08:52 GMT -6
Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 7, 2023 17:08:52 GMT -6
This is going to be a more general post than we've done before, since going over every single one would be rather tedious in my opinion. I'm going to concentrate on two mains points but feel free to introduce anything you like that involves translators in the metro area.
The first thing I want to talk about is wasting translators. By that I mean translators that rebroadcast signals that can be reasonably heard on the primary frequency. The ones I can think of are 91.3 (KYFO), 95.9 (X96), 98.3 (K-Love), and 103.9 (Mix 105.1).
The KYFO translator made more sense back when there wasn't an on-channel booster on the same tower.
I would have to guess that 95.9 and 103.9 broadcast what they do on the theory that while their overall signal strength is lower that a full service station, they might be stronger than the full service that's much farther away. I have doubts that it's true. If anyone near Provo would like to dispute that, please do. That said, I can pick up both stations easily from Davis County. There's a huge opportunity there to broadcast something that can't be heard by most people instead of something that can on another frequency.
K-Love on 98.3 is the one that makes zero sense to me. There's no way it's going to give better reception than 107.5 from Farnsworth and EMF has another service on 107.5 HD3 that AFAIK isn't available in analog at all. Maybe the Frandsens have a long-term plan, but we're now at three years and counting.
The other thing I want to talk about is the missed opportunity for translators in Tooele Valley on the same frequencies at the Humpy rimshots. The coverage of the Humpy stations ends at the Oquirrhs. I can't think of any reason why a translator in Tooele with coverage ending at the same location couldn't be built on the same frequency. That was already done with 104.7 out there, which is allowed to co-exist with KNIV. Putting translators on the same frequencies as the Humpy stations and running the same programming (from a different primary of course) would give those stations additional listeners for not that much effort. That would be especially useful for Bob, which AFAICT is using 105.5 to reach Tooele. Just put a 100.7 translator on the air out there, synchronize it with the boosters on the east side of the mountains, and it would free up 105.5 for something else. For several of the Humpy stations it doesn't seem like a huge investment. They're running copies of the Humpy stations on Farnsworth HD's already anyway. For the ones that don't have co-owned Farnsworth stations they could lease an HD channel from someone who does. iHeart has a bunch of HD stations that only have a single stream.
The first thing I want to talk about is wasting translators. By that I mean translators that rebroadcast signals that can be reasonably heard on the primary frequency. The ones I can think of are 91.3 (KYFO), 95.9 (X96), 98.3 (K-Love), and 103.9 (Mix 105.1).
The KYFO translator made more sense back when there wasn't an on-channel booster on the same tower.
I would have to guess that 95.9 and 103.9 broadcast what they do on the theory that while their overall signal strength is lower that a full service station, they might be stronger than the full service that's much farther away. I have doubts that it's true. If anyone near Provo would like to dispute that, please do. That said, I can pick up both stations easily from Davis County. There's a huge opportunity there to broadcast something that can't be heard by most people instead of something that can on another frequency.
K-Love on 98.3 is the one that makes zero sense to me. There's no way it's going to give better reception than 107.5 from Farnsworth and EMF has another service on 107.5 HD3 that AFAIK isn't available in analog at all. Maybe the Frandsens have a long-term plan, but we're now at three years and counting.
The other thing I want to talk about is the missed opportunity for translators in Tooele Valley on the same frequencies at the Humpy rimshots. The coverage of the Humpy stations ends at the Oquirrhs. I can't think of any reason why a translator in Tooele with coverage ending at the same location couldn't be built on the same frequency. That was already done with 104.7 out there, which is allowed to co-exist with KNIV. Putting translators on the same frequencies as the Humpy stations and running the same programming (from a different primary of course) would give those stations additional listeners for not that much effort. That would be especially useful for Bob, which AFAICT is using 105.5 to reach Tooele. Just put a 100.7 translator on the air out there, synchronize it with the boosters on the east side of the mountains, and it would free up 105.5 for something else. For several of the Humpy stations it doesn't seem like a huge investment. They're running copies of the Humpy stations on Farnsworth HD's already anyway. For the ones that don't have co-owned Farnsworth stations they could lease an HD channel from someone who does. iHeart has a bunch of HD stations that only have a single stream.
