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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 27, 2024 7:37:26 GMT -6
How did the Christmas race end this year? Not surprisingly FM 100.3 won by a landslide, almost identical to last year. My 99.5 came in second overall, but was down significantly from last year. What I think is the combination of The Christmas Eagle (19 days) and Hank-FM (9 days) registered at what I would call pitiful. (I say "I think" because the ratings only list KEGA and the calls changed on Dec 26 with the flip to Hank.) Given that the ratings for 101.5 barely changed from the month before, it doesn't look like a particularly good showing for either format. We'll have to see what the first full month brings for Hank.
Virtually every other station was down, which makes sense. The one that most bucked the trend was Mix 105.1, which followed last month's large gain with a more modest but significant gain this month. It probably doesn't make sense to try to analyze much given the Christmas Skew, so we'll have to wait for January's numbers.
I'm going to make a prediction. The numbers for KSL and KNRS are going to start rising and will continue to rise through November.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 24, 2024 4:17:07 GMT -6
I haven't listened to KALL for a while now either but I remember those community announcements.
According to Relevant Radio there is a plan to rebuild the fallen KMRI/KIHU tower.
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Jan 24, 2024 3:51:34 GMT -6
Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 24, 2024 3:51:34 GMT -6
I tried using DuckDuckGo for a while but too often I didn't find anything useful and would have to redo the search on Google anyway.
What I miss are the topic types of search that Yahoo used to have. They had a hierarchy of topics that you could drill down through when you knew the type of thing you were looking for but not a specific thing.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 24, 2024 3:46:55 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 22, 2024 22:45:21 GMT -6
Results you get in Google are highly dependent on whether you're logged in and what you've previously clicked on. If you're interested you can research Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but that's beyond the scope of this board.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 22, 2024 1:41:31 GMT -6
I'm not seeing the significance of a short blurb from almost 30 years ago. What am I missing?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 21, 2024 6:47:18 GMT -6
you contradict yourself there.. when the FCC says "provide service to the licensed community".. thats exactly what they mean, the licensed community. When the FCC says to provide service to the licensed community they don't mean service SPECIFIC to the licensed community. In other words, the "public interest, convenience and necessity" doesn't have to involve the community listed on the license. It could, but it isn't required. As long as the station broadcasts programming that meets the public interest criteria and is in some way relevant to listeners in the general area that's fine. Besides the cluster example I already gave, you can take a look at KSL. KSL-FM is licensed to Midvale. How often is there a topic of discussion about something that's happening in Midvale? About as much as any other comparable city along the Wasatch Front. That's not a problem because pretty much all they do is cover topics of interest to listeners in the area. IMO specific public interest coverage of the COL should be required, but that's not how it is. The COL is an FCC fiction and that's not likely to change.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 18, 2024 4:12:06 GMT -6
I was thinking University of Utah Bilingüe, but who knows.
No sign of anything on 88.3 yet. The new callsign is ready to go though.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 15, 2024 0:04:41 GMT -6
We know a few more things about what's going to be happening with 88.3. First, the transfer of the station to The U was consummated back on Dec 20 and was filed with the FCC Jan 8. Second, the new callsign will be KUUB effective Wed Jan 17. It's not a guarantee that they will be on the air come Wednesday, but I wouldn't be at all surprised. It's still off the air as of this writing.
I'm also not seeing any new microwave STLs. The only one listed to KUUB is the original one from Library Square. I also don't see any microwave links listed to KUER either so maybe they use something else like internet. KUUB could use the HD4 of KUER directly off the air, assuming there isn't any reception problem due to the RF.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 14, 2024 23:29:18 GMT -6
The guidelines for STA's are here: www.fcc.gov/media/radio/special-temporary-authorityIt does say that the STA facility must provide service to the licensed community, however the definition of "community" in FCC parlance isn't necessarily the dictionary definition. The best example is public interest programming. It's well established that public interest programming isn't limited to the community listed on the license. Anything in the general area will do, which is fortunate for clusters so they can run the same public affairs programming on multiple stations with different COLs. The STA request specifically says that it will allow them to resume service to the community and the surrounding area. That signal isn't even theoretically going to get anywhere near Centerville, but it does cover part of the area that was covered by the licensed signal. Apparently that's good enough for the FCC. But speaking of that.... Coverage area maps in general are largely theoretical in nature and the STA contour map even basically says so. Sometimes stations get out much better than the math says they should (like the Lake Mountain stations) and sometimes it's much worse. The STA application says it has a ground system, but I have to wonder about the efficiency of a non-permanent ground system like that. In any case I doubt Alpha really cares. At this point they probably don't care much about who can hear the station or even what it's broadcasting. The most important thing is to protect the license so when they have a new site they'll have something to build there.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 13, 2024 0:12:33 GMT -6
There is no associated microwave license I can find and they don't have a studio or control point on file with the FCC. I wonder if they just have a bunch of satellite dishes and an antenna for the Logan station up on Kessler. At one time they were using Comcast to pick up Jewelry TV, but that was 5 years ago. talkingutahradio.proboards.com/thread/1846/uh-kpdr-backwards
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 12, 2024 9:46:50 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 11, 2024 5:26:39 GMT -6
It was there Wednesday morning and it's still there now. Adding an HD2 doesn't seem like it would be done by accident.
Based on what I've heard and what oldiesfunhouse listed it makes sense to me that a format like that would be on KODJ's subchannel rather than one of iHeart's other properties. It sounds like a classic hits format aimed at bilinguals. I've heard of this type of station in other markets (like what amanuensis said), and there is a certain logic to putting it on here. The market is about 16% Hispanic according to Nielsen. It makes less sense to me to put it on an HD channel. There are translators that relay KODJ to distant communities but nothing that I know of in the Salt Lake area itself, and there aren't going to be any chances to put a new translator on the air for a long time. Using an existing translator for this is possible but the only iHeart translator in the area I know of is 99.1 in Salt Lake that I think is still running Bloomberg Radio. They could try to buy K252DI/98.3 and drop the pointless 107.5 simulcast.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 11, 2024 4:33:26 GMT -6
It's either on air, on air but without programming (dead carrier) or off air. Reality is a bit more nuanced than that. The signal is there but it's sending random data. This would be different from KUTB which normally sends 100% null packets (0x1fff) that are valid but have no data, or KSUD which sends valid metadata but no program data. I have no idea what this means. Also, please read your private message.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 10, 2024 1:05:05 GMT -6
If you look at page 5 of the STA document here you'll see exactly where they say it is. I wonder if they're actually using that tree. It looks like it could be about 20 feet tall.
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