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Post by amanuensis on Feb 27, 2023 11:44:52 GMT -6
I didn't know this at the time but BYU had a basketball game Saturday night as well so, as far as I could tell, the RSL game was exclusively on AM 1280. The Utes had a game too so, even if they had stayed on 700, RSL wouldn't have aired there. I don't know where those games were put when there were conflicts. I know back when KOOL was on 105.5 some games were put there. So KSL AM and FM had the BYU game and 97.5 had the Jazz game?
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Post by amanuensis on Feb 23, 2023 10:18:36 GMT -6
I can confirm that it was 18 inches for us in West Jordan. My daughter and I took turns shoveling yesterday and we still need to shovel more today before we can get our cars drive-able.
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Post by amanuensis on Feb 22, 2023 15:21:41 GMT -6
David, what you propose sounds to me a lot like what KBEE is doing now. How would your format differ? I would go for an instrumental format. Not smooth jazz although some of that could be in the mix. The bulk would be karaoke-style covers of 90's through now pop hits with a fairly fast tempo.
A second format, after the instrumental format failed , would be epic metal and folk metal. I guess some refer to it as Power Metal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_metal
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Post by amanuensis on Feb 17, 2023 10:11:07 GMT -6
My first car, a 1988 Dodge Shadow, had a radio with AM Stereo but not the flavor that KSL used. Nonetheless, there were a couple of stations that the radio did indicate were in AM Stereo. But I can't remember which ones they were, just that they were not stations that I typically listened to. 700 easily could have been one of them. I listen to instrumental now a lot when I am working but back then I never listened to it. Perhaps 1370 was another one? Never spent much time with country.
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Post by amanuensis on Jan 30, 2023 16:10:01 GMT -6
So does the person on duty there rotate with others working vs. sleeping on site? Or is there just a single person there at any time and that person has to hope that no alarms go off when he is trying to sleep?
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Post by amanuensis on Jan 3, 2023 11:14:10 GMT -6
Radio isn't dead. But it is not healthy.
CA is of course right that if you offer people something they want, they will buy it. But with radio, it is not us the listeners that the stations are selling to. Instead they are selling to their advertisers.
There is a higher cost to the broadcasters for the quality product (e.g., traditional full service radio) than there is for the crap product. Maybe the cost of providing the quality product is so high that they can never get high enough ratings to offset that cost; advertisers may never be willing to pay that much for their spots.
There are a lot more avenues for advertisers to spend their money on now than there were back in the glory days. My employer spends a ton of money on marketing our products, but almost none of it goes to radio. Right or wrong, the belief is that other channels are more cost-effective at reaching the people that we want to reach.
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Post by amanuensis on Dec 19, 2022 10:13:58 GMT -6
Very appreciative of these responses. Another question: Is the market complacent when it comes to talk radio? I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "complacent", but as far as talk radio is concerned, the market is pretty conservative. KSL, KNRS, and KUER (NPR) are the 800 pound gorillas of news/talk in Salt Lake City, and I'd classify both KSL and KNRS as conservative talk radio. There's also KKAT 860 and KJJC 1230, which mostly exist to clear the Cumulus and Salem Media talk shows in the Salt Lake radio market. Those five stations seem to have the talk radio market here sewn up, so I wouldn't think there's a lot of demand for more talk radio stations in this market. Finally, there's also KBJA 1640 (a/k/a K-Talk Utah), but their listening audience is so small that it hasn't shown up in the ratings for years. Not very surprising, considering that KBJA is frequently off the air, or just broadcasting dead air. 1640's programming is what I'd describe as third tier talk radio, meaning that they mostly air shows that are below the second tier talk programs heard on KKAT and KJJC in terms of radio status. In addition to the talk stations that David mentioned, there is also KCPW (which airs a non-NPR public radio talk format) kcpw.org/ and KUMT (which airs BYU Radio) www.byuradio.org/schedule. Not to mention the sports talk stations. And Bloomberg Business Radio's financial talk shows (on 99.1).
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Post by amanuensis on Dec 16, 2022 12:08:41 GMT -6
Apologies if I am being off-base here. But you are thinking about buying a radio station -- and asking for advice about whether to pull the trigger on a random radio fan board?? That is not due diligence.
I have no idea of the extent to which LDS business owners prefer to spend their ad dollars with the Bonneville station group (ultimately owned by the LDS Church) as opposed to the other station groups in SLC. That said, I will give you my opinion. Worth every penny you paid for it.
There is an existing radio station on nearly every FM frequency in SLC. And only three of those stations are owned by Bonneville. So the other commercial stations manage to scrape by somehow. As it happens, the three Bonneville stations are usually near the top of the publicly available 12+ ratings. So my suspicion is that advertisers who are disproportionally spending money with Bonneville are doing so because that is where the audiences for their messages are at.
Another point is that once you get past mom-and-pop businesses (and how much radio ad time do they buy anyway?), most advertisers are businesses that have religious diversity in their employees. Their marketing folk might be of any faith or none.
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Post by amanuensis on Dec 16, 2022 11:50:14 GMT -6
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Post by amanuensis on Nov 29, 2022 11:56:24 GMT -6
I have vague memories of FM100 having an HD3 feed that played Christmas music Jan-Oct and their regular format in Nov and Dec.
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Post by amanuensis on Nov 25, 2022 11:46:25 GMT -6
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Post by amanuensis on Nov 18, 2022 16:32:31 GMT -6
I'm curious. On these tests, is there any reporting as to whether for particular broadcasters the test was successful. Are failures mostly reported on the honor system? (I can't imagine that some FCC employee is quickly turning the dial to see if all of the stations are airing the EAS tones. And who do the broadcaster report failures to, if anyone?
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Post by amanuensis on Nov 17, 2022 9:58:51 GMT -6
What is the translator on 98.3 that covers Utah County and what does it translate? I listened to it briefly this morning and it sounded like a sports talk format (although at that moment they were talking about Taylor Swift and the problems people had purchasing her tickets on Ticketmaster).
Still no 98.3 translator on the air in southern Salt Lake County.
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Post by amanuensis on Nov 14, 2022 15:08:41 GMT -6
I listened to Flashback one the day that I was in Lehi last week and I will be in Lehi two days this week and I plan to listen some more. So far, I have liked it quite a lot. I did not get the "satellite" vibe. Instead, it sounds local. Not sure about "live". Probably voice tracked. I think that Mid Utah Radio is trying for the gap between KMGR and the Eagle (KLGL). I just hope they get a stream set up soon.
On second thought, it has been a while since I last listened to KLGL. They seem to have switched from classic hits to contemporary hit radio. So maybe that is not what Mid-Utah is aiming for.
On third thought, KMGR also seems to have evolved from where it was pre-Covid. It now seems to be more of a light rock station than Easy Listening Full Service.
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Post by amanuensis on Nov 8, 2022 16:39:45 GMT -6
I wonder how much revenue KTUB is actually losing from not broadcasting? Some expenses, such as power, would be reduced if they never sign back on the air but instead continue as an Internet-only station. I have no idea how much less advertisers would be willing to pay. Would advertisers be accepting of metrics based on how many devices are taking the stream? If an advertiser wants to reach Latino Jazz fans, buying a spot on KTUB might still be the best way to do that.
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