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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 26, 2024 6:48:21 GMT -6
Sanpete County Broadcasting and Broadway Media are swapping ownership of 92.1 and 94.5.
It's weird to me that it took this long for the ownership of 92.1 to join that of its parent station, but that's business for you. In the FCC application it does specifically state that Broadway intends to use the station to rebroadcast 96.3 HD3. Currently that's a simulcast of 700, but as I recall they have split when there's a live sports conflict. That also does make it easier to flip the station to another format if they want to dissolve the simulcast.
On the 94.5 side, there's a provision in the agreement that Sanpete may file to move it. Whether that means a change in physical location, frequency or both it doesn't say, and nothing has been filed yet. They have a lot of station down that way so there are a lot of possibilities.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 26, 2024 6:18:54 GMT -6
I think 1280 is mostly fine at night, at least along the Wasatch Front. Its night signal is highly directional north/south with nulls toward Tooele and Park City, and it probably has a problem in the Magna area.
The SEG acquiring another station is just nuts. Even if the Zone/KSL consortium will be airing the Utah Whatevers, I'm reasonably sure that the situation of 5 teams playing simultaneously will be a very rare occurrence. Regardless, the question would then be what the heck would you put on yet another signal the other 20+ hours a day? I suppose they could affiliate with one of the national sports talk networks but that just feels like meh to me. Is there any off-hours sports offering that isn't carried here that anyone would like to hear?
If they did run out of broadcast space for all the games that would be airing at a particular time it would make more sense to buy a few hours on some other station than to buy an entire separate station.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 25, 2024 7:42:34 GMT -6
I couldn't find any job listings on their website but I'd be surprised if a company as big as Sinclair doesn't do their own traffic. It might be in another city. (Nexstar's Salt Lake traffic hub handles stations across the western US.) As soon as KJZZ and KUTV start regularly making forecasts for viewers in the southern hemisphere or Salt Lake moves to the southern hemisphere I'll rethink my criticism.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 24, 2024 5:11:08 GMT -6
I don't know what's going on over at Sinclair, but their scheduling of promos on KJZZ 14 is making me nuts. For many months now they've been scheduling promos touting their airing of Jeopardy mere seconds before Jeopardy itself airs. What is the point? You don't need to promo something that's about to promo itself in about 5 seconds. It's a waste. It's not like there's a lack of other shows that they could air a promo for in that slot.
And that's not the only problem. For the last couple of days they've been airing a promo for their weather coverage talking about how important that is in the winter. Um... Winter has been over for a while now.
All of this just looks incredibly sloppy. It shouldn't be hard to fix. Just take a little care and make sure the person or software that's doing the scheduling is doing it correctly. That will greatly help the credibility of the station.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 23, 2024 5:55:43 GMT -6
Hot Rod Hundley did indeed start with the Jazz in New Orleans.
Before looking at who might be on radio I think we'd need to figure out who's going to be producing the broadcasts. If Bonneville produced the broadcasts and they end up producing them again, it would be more likely the announcers remain the same. If the Coyotes produced them and those people are transferring to the new club then it would also be more likely to remain the same. If one of those produced them before but won't be going forward then who knows.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 19, 2024 23:18:41 GMT -6
There's a huge difference between 17 games mostly on Sunday afternoons and 82 games mostly at night. Also, NFL radio games get huge ratings and the ratings hockey on the radio will get is TBA. I'm not saying it's impossible that iHeart could get the games, just highly unlikely.
For the last several years the Coyotes have been on Bonneville's sports stations in Phoenix. That makes keeping them on a Bonneville managed or owned property a little more likely.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 19, 2024 0:17:41 GMT -6
I can't find anything on the ESPN 700 website that says the Grizzlies currently have their games on 700. The last sponsorship promotion between them was two years ago.
PBP is a common abbreviation for Play By Play.
Apparently the new team won't have a name for a while. I also can't find anything about who the radio partner will be, but we do know where they will be on TV. According to Fox 13 all of the games will be on Utah 16. (Even nationally broadcast ones?) This past season they were on both 16 and 13.2, sharing with the Golden Knights.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 18, 2024 3:13:12 GMT -6
FM 100.3, first place, yadda yadda yadda.
The Arrow dropped sharply but was still strong enough to land in 3rd place. Bonneville took the top three spots.
Now 97.9 posted a nice gain.
The "B" in B98.7 might stand for boing since they went up a lot this month. I also notice that the B stream has been showing very good (for a stream) numbers for several months, but disappeared this month. Change in reporting?
I'm still waiting for this election year to be reflected in KNRS' numbers. Their numbers over the past few months are mediocre.
As DSPete pointed out last month, ZHT is continuing to do badly. I have seen ads for them, so at least iHeart is trying to do something about it.
The Beat managed to hold on to the improvement they posted last month and they aren't the worst FM in the cluster. That honor goes to the new Hank-FM, which is looking more and more like it's DOA.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 18, 2024 2:44:49 GMT -6
Didn't see that coming, but with Broadway I never do.
The HD2 wasn't actually doing anything (to spite still listing oldies songs as of a few days ago) so this makes as much sense as anything. Can anyone in range of the 95.9 translator in Provo check and see if it's still relaying X96 or whether it might now also be simulcasting 960?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 18, 2024 2:26:55 GMT -6
Even though Bonneville manages the Zone stations, Smith still owns them. It seems to me like pretty much a foregone conclusion that the team would end up on a co-owned station.
I'll take your word on what teams have PBP there. Even so, it would be possible to use only KZNS AM/FM and KSL AM/FM and cover four teams. The biggest challenge I see would be making sure splitting KSL doesn't go over the limit for what they can do and still qualify for total line reporting with Nielsen. They can split for up to 33.5 hours per 4 week ratings period.
I suspect the Grizzlies will relocate, but I haven't heard anyone even mention them other than in association with what name the new team will have. (I think the new team should be called the Freezz, which would be consistent with the Jazz and the now-gone Starzz, but that trademark might not be available.)
Much less clear cut would be where the TV rights go. Smith has a TV relationship with Sinclair to air Jazz games on KJZZ and a management agreement with Bonneville to run his radio stations, and the soon-to-be-former Arizona Coyotes have had an agreement with a Scripps station in Phoenix that exported those games to their Salt Lake sister stations.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 17, 2024 5:06:25 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 16, 2024 3:15:00 GMT -6
The owner of KJZZ (Sinclair Broadcasting) has announced that they're going to be implementing datacasting at their ATSC 3 stations nationwide. sbgi.net/sinclair-launches-broadspan-datacasting-platform/The bottom line is that instead of having the same data sent individually to many different devices (for example, software updates to cars), it can be sent once and have all of those devices receive it at the same time. It's far more efficient. I like the idea in theory. The thing that I'm worried about is giving too much bandwidth to these datacasting services and having the quality of the video services suffer. We've seen that all too clearly with the existing ATSC 1 stations. So many video signals are crammed into the available spectrum that the quality is degraded to the point of unwatchability.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 12, 2024 1:18:05 GMT -6
The Wikipedia article is at best incomplete, which is why this is a good example of why it isn't allowed as a source on this board. I'm not sure if KCSG produced their own news. It was co-branded as St George News and KCSG 8, but where it broadcast from looks like a studio to me. Maybe KTVX is using that or some other semantic argument to claim that they are first, or maybe they weren't paying attention or just forgot about KCSG. Their YouTube channel is still up if anyone would like to take a look at it for themselves. www.youtube.com/@kcsgtelevision5844
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 9, 2024 2:38:41 GMT -6
A station's contest rules are separate from FCC rules. Stations must abide by the FCC rules that cover contests, but as long as those are covered they can do pretty much whatever they want. If they wanted to disqualify anyone with a Q in their name they probably could.
I think it's theoretically possible to feed a booster off-air from a primary but I've never heard of that being done. It would require a lot more effort than just feeding it some other way. Boosters are always on the same frequency as the primary. You'd have to shield the receive antenna and receiver from the transmit antenna and receiver. Considering the extremely tight timing requirements to keep everything in sync, microwave would be my logical first choice.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 7, 2024 21:46:41 GMT -6
First off, we're talking about boosters not translators. Those are two different things.
Radio and TV stations are under the jurisdiction of Federal law, not state or local. That hasn't stopped local authorities from trying, such as the infamous Radio Free Brattleboro, but it hasn't worked. There are various state/local laws against piracy which are complementary to the Federal laws so they are unlikely to be challenged, but their actual legality seems dubious.
Advertising some product or service that isn't available in some jurisdictions happens already. You might hear a disclaimer in an ad "offer not available in all areas" or "offer not available in <some state>." I see that more often on TV.
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