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Post by amanuensis on May 11, 2023 16:12:32 GMT -6
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Post by amanuensis on May 9, 2023 9:20:29 GMT -6
I would take the branding of the station to its logical extreme, and let the listeners do the bulk of the song selection. I would have certain hours be "Jukebox Hours". The entire playlist would be accessible on the station website or via an app. During certain hours, say "the 60s at six" AM and PM, "the seventies at seven", "the eighties at eight", and "the nineties at nine" each song from that particular decade that was in the playlist would be select-able by the listeners. Some kind of random chance algorithm would determine which songs were actually selected for the hour. (The remaining daylight hours would be 21st century playlist voting.) The DJ would announce who had picked each song and give some factoid about the song or the group.
The voting for a particular day's playlist would have to be voted on during the preceding day so that the DJs would have time to work out the timing of the ads, given that some songs are longer than others. And that is why there would be a lot of talk, so that gaps could be filled. The songs that were going to be played would not be known in advance, except by the station staff. Meaning that no one would know in advance whether a song they picked during the previous day would be played or not.
I would also like there to be some way in which the listeners could influence the underlying playlist. Perhaps by up-voting and down-voting all of the songs that ever made the weekly Billboard Hot 100 during each decade. With maybe the playlist being the current top 1000 songs from that voting. There would have to be some way to keep everyone honest and not vote more than once for a particular song.
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Post by amanuensis on May 6, 2023 5:26:37 GMT -6
How I picture it is that car manufacturers wanted Sirius to stay in business BECAUSE Sirius was giving them all of this nice green stuff with pictures of dead men on it. So they avoided doing things like HD Radio that would imperil Sirius XM's health. There may never have been an overt quid-pro-quo, just, as I posted before, a desire to not bite the hand that was feeding them.
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Post by amanuensis on May 4, 2023 14:26:00 GMT -6
I wonder if there is any data about how many people listen to an HD2 signal from OTA versus a stream. I love KRSP's Deep Tracks HD2. But I listen to it only streaming because I don't have an HD radio in my car. (I thought I was getting an HD radio with the last one we bought, the salesman said it had it, and that trim line was supposed to have it, but it didn't.)
But I have to confess. One reason why I love it is because there are almost no commercials. (The more important reason is the play list.) So it can't be making Bonneville any money, given the overhead they have running it.
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Post by amanuensis on May 3, 2023 13:07:59 GMT -6
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Post by amanuensis on Apr 24, 2023 15:55:15 GMT -6
Don't the cars have to be on an account, with internet service? No. Just Bluetooth.
This of course works best with a cell phone account that includes unlimited data.
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Post by amanuensis on Apr 24, 2023 10:14:19 GMT -6
You could synch your cell phone to your car's speakers and get KSL that way anywhere in the world that has good mobile internet.
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Post by amanuensis on Apr 21, 2023 8:50:09 GMT -6
I listened to NPR's Click and Clack show occasionally. But as cars became more complex, it seemed that the answer that Tom and Ray Magliozzi gave to their callers was "take it to a qualified mechanic". I think the era has come and gone in which a person could by a Chilton Guide and fix most car problems at home. They have become too complex, with too many computer chips. So I suggest that that is why car talk shows are less common -- there is less actionable stuff to talk about.
I guess you could expand sports talk to include all hobbies and forms of recreation, not just sports. I guess if I was programming 97.5, I might try adding some diversity on weekday mid-days (when ratings are presumably lower than lower anyway) by including discussions of coin and stamp collecting, gardening, and genealogy. For genealogy, programming Scott Fisher's Extreme Genes show would be very obvious since he is a local talent (unless he has a non-compete clause).
Well, nevermind: www.extremegenes.com/find-us It turns out that KNRS already has the local broadcast rights to Fisher's genealogy show. But someone else could obviously start doing one.
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Post by amanuensis on Apr 16, 2023 19:23:58 GMT -6
I was listening this evening to Bloomberg 99.1 an noticed that it was about 40 minutes delayed. At one point an on air mention of it being 8:30 am in Hong Kong. Which should have been airing on 99.1 at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, but I was hearing that at 7:10 pm.
Can someone with an HD radio check KJMY HD2 to see if the HD signal is also delayed?
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 31, 2023 13:22:39 GMT -6
There are easily enough songs that have the word "fool" or "foolish" in the title that you could have them run nonstop for a "fool" day. www.lyrics.com/lyrics/fool
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 30, 2023 9:51:22 GMT -6
I don't think I would change much either. Strong morning show. Good playlist.
Well, I guess there is one thing I would change -- the "Happy News" segment that airs each weekday morning at about 9:10. Instead of going on at length about it for several minutes, I would instead have the DJs say something like "we've added another great Happy News Feel Good Story to our page on the station website, this one involving an X that finally got Y after going through a lot of Z. Go check it out for all of the details. And now back to the music."
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 28, 2023 9:35:30 GMT -6
So that would leave us with what to do with KYFO. Since we're working under the assumption that it would still be a non-comm, that leaves us with few options. Maybe someone could resurrect jazz in the market? I assume that Utah's Mountain utahsmountain.com/ would jump at the chance to have a broadcast signal back again, after losing 107.9.
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 27, 2023 12:00:19 GMT -6
Assuming of course that everyone would go along with what I wanted, I would move the signal of KCPW to 95.5 (and have KPCW as the the HD2 -- yes, I know that the two stations are not affiliated any more, but this is my fantasy). And then I would have KUSU take over KCPW's old 88.3 frequency as its Salt Lake translator.
I would do it that way because it is my understanding that KYFO has excellent signal strength in Ogden and Brigham City, where KUSU can already be picked up pretty well. So the extra signal on 95.5 would be largely wasted there.
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 23, 2023 11:27:55 GMT -6
I almost never listen to spots. When I hear the DJ start into saying what is coming up after the break, I switch to a different station. Of course the stations try to work around this by all scheduling their commercial blocks at the same time each hour. But there is almost always some station that is not conforming to that right then. KRSP used to start their "Free Ride" at 8:45 precisely, so that was at just the right time to switch to 103.5. But now, it starts later, at about 8:49. So I switch to 96.7 instead (since at that time of the morning I am south of Point of the Mountain, if I am in my car driving to work).
If a station was to consistently only break for, say, a minute before coming back, then I would be much more likely to not switch, if the song that the DJ pitches for after the break is one that I like. I have noticed a station (KODJ?) starting to have the DJ say, hey, this will just be thirty seconds or a minute before we get back to the music. I want more of that more often.
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 13, 2023 9:29:28 GMT -6
I don't think I would change much either. Strong morning show. Good playlist.
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