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Post by amanuensis on Apr 19, 2024 9:33:29 GMT -6
It appears that the page I was looking at that said ESPN 700 was the home of the Grizzlies is a stale page from several years ago. So it seems that there was no play-by-play radio coverage of them this last season. Nothing on the Grizzlies website about how to watch or how to tune in. The entire focus of their site is to drive in-person attendance at games. I did find an article on the KSL radio site stating that the Grizzlies are not moving. kslnewsradio.com/2095231/what-happens-to-the-grizzlies-if-nhl-comes-to-utah/
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Post by amanuensis on Apr 17, 2024 16:00:26 GMT -6
I think it might depend on what happens to the Grizzlies. Will they stay in Utah, perhaps as the minor league affiliate of the new team? If they were to relocate elsewhere, then ESPN 700 might be hungry for games to replace the Grizzlies.
I'm sure Ryan Smith has preferences for who does the radio, but I assume he would go with 700 if they gave him more money than other stations offered.
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Post by amanuensis on Apr 12, 2024 10:50:07 GMT -6
Sorry, I keep forgetting about the no quoting rule.
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Post by amanuensis on Apr 10, 2024 11:26:35 GMT -6
The press release asserts that KTVX, "keeping in the tradition of being Utah’s oldest television station and a national broadcasting pioneer, the ABC4 Black Desert Newsroom will be the first and only television studio in Southern Utah." The KCSG Wikipedia article disagrees:
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Post by amanuensis on Apr 8, 2024 9:36:58 GMT -6
A few months ago, I tried to get in the drawing for a distant radio station's cash prize. I got a text message saying that my zip code was not within the required distance from the station. Which is perfectly understandable -- the prize money comes from the fees the station charges its local advertisers.
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 19, 2024 10:31:22 GMT -6
Is dropping local stations something that cable companies can also do, or is the "must carry" rule still in effect? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Must-carry I seem to vaguely recall that local stations that want to be paid by the cable companies for retransmission don't have to be carried if the parties can't come to terms. The ever-increasing fee that Comcast charged for the local stations is a major reason why we partially cut the cord. (We still get Internet from them.) Does Comcast still charge Utah customers a regional sports fee?
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 13, 2024 9:42:24 GMT -6
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 11, 2024 11:18:36 GMT -6
Interesting. I'm glad it is working for them. Going to newer material didn't work for me, though. A few months ago, I replaced KLO on my presents with KAAZ.
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Post by amanuensis on Feb 23, 2024 14:42:49 GMT -6
I spent some time looking up the ownership and several FCC rulings on what they seem to be doing.
And ... what did you find out?
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Post by amanuensis on Jan 23, 2024 10:38:57 GMT -6
Google used to be an excellent search engine. Now, by trying to be all things to all people, it is now just mediocre. Perhaps still the best. But not what it was.
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Post by amanuensis on Jan 13, 2024 21:03:57 GMT -6
I live in West Jordan and yesterday I spent a few minutes in the parking lot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church (which the transmission equipment is located) and I couldn't see anything in the trees or elsewhere. I have no doubt that the signal is coming from there, somewhere, because the ONLY place in WJ where I have heard 1600 without static is in that parking lot. An INCREDIBLY weak signal. The station IDed twice. Once at 5 till the top of the hour, breaking into the programming, and once at the top between programs. The station IDs were done by different people, a man and a woman. Nothing Spanish about either ID, or any branding. I had forgotten that the COL is Centerville. Does the STA also give them permission to temporarily not serve their COL? There is no way that the signal strength map that CAwasinNJ linked to is accurate. Just a mile away from the church and the signal is almost inaudible, at least with my car's radio. There are lots of power lines running along 90th South, which of course don't help. I wonder if the reason that I could not see the antenna is because it is not currently extended. Maybe it has fallen and can't get back up. That could explain why I literally had to be in the church's parking lot to get a good signal. The program leading up to the top of the hour was a minister with some kind of credentials in health care talking about good nutrition as a way of preventing dementia. After the top of the hour, the same minister was speaking about why it is unhealthy to give kids candy bars. Totally in English. I assume that the minister is affiliated with the Seventh Day Adventist Church, which has a focus on healthy eating. www.healthline.com/nutrition/seventh-day-adventist-diet
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Post by amanuensis on Jan 11, 2024 16:31:54 GMT -6
I would love it, Friendlee, if you could get your hands on these instrumental covers of 70s pop that Lex DeAzevedo did for Bonneville. surreyhousemusic.com/artist/lex-de-azevedo/Well, except for the fact that I wouldn't be able to hear them anyway. But perhaps the people up in southern Cache Valley would like them.
I am not so big on lush orchestral easy listening like 101 Strings and Jackie Gleason. I am more into the instrumental pop covers and instrumentals that were their own hits in the own right, like Joy by Apollo 1000 and Seasons by Charles Fox. And Music Box Dancer and Pied Piper by Frank Mills. And Love is Blue by Paul Mauriat. And Chariots of Fire by Vangelis. And anything by Mannheim Steamroller. And the extended versions of TV show theme songs -- Dallas, Falcon Crest, Rockford Files, etc.
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Post by amanuensis on Jan 10, 2024 11:28:23 GMT -6
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Post by amanuensis on Jan 9, 2024 16:59:46 GMT -6
Very surprised to see that instrumental "beautiful" music is still being played by your station a few hours a week. I thought that that format had died out completely from all OTA stations in Utah. I still listen to that format when I am working; it helps me be productive.
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Post by amanuensis on Dec 28, 2023 16:24:59 GMT -6
I was in my local CVS Pharmacy last night (the 27th) and the store was still playing Christmas. I guess someone at Corporate forgot to tell the local store manager to switch back to the standard stream. That makes me wonder -- how DO large chain stores get their streams and how customized are they? Are there some corporations that "roll their own"? I know Walmart does. www.walmartworld.com/content/walmart-world/en_us/radio.html
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