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M*A*S*H
Sept 27, 2022 9:38:05 GMT -6
Post by amanuensis on Sept 27, 2022 9:38:05 GMT -6
Television sets at the BYU dorm I lived in circa 1985 were always tuned to Channel 5 for the sports report and then MASH.
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Post by amanuensis on Sept 19, 2022 9:55:24 GMT -6
My daughter used to sing in the Salt Lake Children's Choir. Each year, KBYU hauled microphones and recording equipment (and an engineer) to the Cathedral of the Madeline to record SLCC's Christmas concert. They played selections from the previous year's concert during programming in the following Christmas season. There was no reason why KBYU had to do that, especially not each year.
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Post by amanuensis on Sept 19, 2022 9:33:55 GMT -6
As I have posted before, KSL AM used to do a very elaborate live call-sign at midnight on Sunday/Monday. I had an aircheck with it from the early 1980s. It went something like this. "This is the clear-channel voice of Mountain America, 1160 KSL broadcasting from studios in Salt Lake City with transmission facilities in the Oquirrh Mountains with an output power of 50,000 watts as authorized by the Broadcast Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC beginning another week of broadcasting activities. At the sound of the historic Nauvoo Bell the exact time will be twelve midnight." All of this was said as a voice-over to Seasons, an instrumental piano composition of Charles Fox. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyl6wyaWVvw
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Post by amanuensis on Sept 8, 2022 16:08:08 GMT -6
Hard to tell. The edge of K244DH's null now goes right through Lehi. If it was on the air you should have been able to pick it up fine if you were heading south but had a problem heading north. I was in fact heading north at the time, back towards West Jordan, where I live.
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Post by amanuensis on Sept 8, 2022 9:50:43 GMT -6
Yesterday, I was working in Lehi so on my drive home I checked to see what was on 96.7. My car's radio skipped over that frequency when I used the go-to-next-station button. So I manually selected 96.7 (manual tuning on my radio is surprisingly hard to access; it is hidden several screens below the default choices). I found that the Goat was still on the air, but a weak signal. So I am not sure exactly what I was listening to -- the main with a newly strong signal that nonetheless was attenuated so far from Levan or K244DH.
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Post by amanuensis on Sept 6, 2022 10:04:40 GMT -6
That's what I've always thought about Logo-branded merchandise. If a business wants me to be repping their brand, then they should be paying me to wear it, or at least give it to me for free. (And yes NBA/Utah Jazz, that means you too.)
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Post by amanuensis on Sept 2, 2022 9:29:59 GMT -6
Thanks CA for pointing to where I can find the answer.
A few years ago, one of the SLC stations (forget which one) had a computer melt-down. The obviously frazzled DJ apologized at one point for the longer than usual silence between each song because he was literally having to take CDs in and out of a single drive. And he apologized for some of the songs not being what were usually played because he was limited to what was on hand. (To me, the unusual play list was a feature, not a bug).
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Post by amanuensis on Sept 1, 2022 12:21:55 GMT -6
I just want to know what a "real estate novelist" is. And why he never had time for a wife.
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Post by amanuensis on Sept 1, 2022 9:42:50 GMT -6
Billy Joel made a song about it -- The Entertainer. Which never seems to get airplay. And neither does "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" which is the song I assume that Joel is alluding to in these lyrics: You heard my latest record It's been on the radio Ah, it took me years to write it They were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05
And speaking of Billy Joel, the DJs often stop playing "Still Rock and Roll to Me" before he does the whoop at the end, just because there is a couple of seconds of silence before that. It's as if the DJ is afraid I will change the station if I don't hear anything for a moment or two.
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Post by amanuensis on Aug 25, 2022 10:10:17 GMT -6
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Post by amanuensis on Aug 18, 2022 10:00:09 GMT -6
In the early 90s, someone in my singles ward had a connection with someone who was able to get us a tour of the nonpublic areas of the Tabernacle. As it happened, there was a Jazz game that night -- a Jazz game that was on FSN instead of broadcast tv. I was very amused to see a number of Church employees gathered together in the booth in the Tabernacle where they used to do the video mixing. The Tabernacle had (maybe still does) a direct cable connection to the KSL studios, as did the Delta Center (maybe it still does too). So the Church employees could patch via the Triad Center into the in-arena tv cameras and audio. They could have gotten play by play from the radio if they had wanted to. This is back when Hot Rod was simulcast on radio and tv. In other words, the Church employees were streaming what the jumbotron was showing.
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Post by amanuensis on Aug 10, 2022 14:11:23 GMT -6
It seems that the writer of the article started with a press release and then added some content, but is unaware that BYU has two radio stations. "BYU Broadcasting, the parent of “Classical 89” KBYU-FM Salt Lake City, has named air personality Sam Payne as Director of Audio Content and General Manager for BYU Radio." You would think an article about BYU Radio would at least mention KUMT.
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Post by amanuensis on Aug 8, 2022 10:08:42 GMT -6
I just spent a half hour of my life that I will never get back listening to KUUU do their stunting. The fact that they are still running their advertising makes me think that it is more likely than not that 3 pm will come, they will announce where the gas is to be had, and then they will go back to playing music focused on their existing demo. If so, my fingers are crossed that 92.1 switches to KOOL.
BTW, if I was an advertiser on KUUU, I would be reaching out to my station contact and saying, "you won't be billing us for those spots, right?"
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Post by amanuensis on Aug 6, 2022 10:39:22 GMT -6
Henry, it is funny how what was once "rebellious" eventually becomes mainstream. It happened with the Rat Pack. It happened in my generation with songs like "Hot Blooded" and groups like AC/DC -- which are now in regular rotation on LDS-owned KRSP.
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Post by amanuensis on Jul 25, 2022 16:41:35 GMT -6
KUUU going from 92.5 to 92.1 would be low cost since the existing branding could continue to be used.
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