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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 4, 2024 5:26:07 GMT -6
If the FCC doesn't know about it, they can't do anything about it.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 31, 2024 8:14:47 GMT -6
There's an interesting article on radio play by play at Radio Ink. (The ratings mention is in the first paragraph.) radioink.com/2024/01/30/john-shomby-those-radio-play-by-play-folks-must-be-onto-something/The article is about the 800 lb gorilla of US sports - football, but there might be some parallels to radio listening for Jazz games here. The gist is that NFL games on the radio get mind boggling numbers. I'm honestly shocked. I know the TV broadcasts get enormous numbers, but I didn't think radio would. We know the Jazz are big here. If the NFL can get crushing numbers for their games even though they're mostly on free TV also, it would stand to reason that the Jazz games could get at least decent numbers too. If they are, that doesn't say much for the rest of their schedule. Unfortunately all we get publicly are the Mon-Sun 6AM-Midnight numbers. I'd love to be able to subscribe and get the full breakdown but that would be too expensive.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 31, 2024 7:49:31 GMT -6
KZNS doesn't have quite an omni daytime pattern. It's close, but there's a null to the northwest. The night pattern is quite severe though.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 29, 2024 6:39:08 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 28, 2024 7:49:12 GMT -6
As far as Urban stations go there's an even bigger difference than just comparing The Beat to Vegas' Q100.5. Vegas has 4 stations listed as Urban Contemporary plus a Hip Hop station and a Classic Hip Hop station. I'm not familiar with any of them so I don't know how they compare to The Beat or the defunct U92, but it sure seems like Vegas has a big appetite for that kind of music. The fact that the one station even remotely close to those formats is on life support says to me that whatever interest there is here is minimal. Anecdotally I can only think of one station that has ever done an all EDM format and that was years ago in Boston. The Beat could try it. It probably wouldn't hurt, but I have doubts that it would help. SLC and Vegas may not be that far apart geographically but obviously they are light years apart culturally. The big draw in Vegas is gambling and we can't even get a lottery here.
I too was wondering about the effect that the free Jazz games would have on 97.5/1280. (They're on both signals usually, right?) The two ratings periods that have the basketball season in effect for the entire 4 weeks are December and Holiday. Looking at this year compared to the previous two years there doesn't seem to be much difference. It's hard to tell though because even comparing 2022 and 2021 there was a difference. I'm not sure it matters though. The Smith Entertainment Group produces the games that are airing on KJZZ. I haven't even seen any reference to KJZZ when the games are on. I suspect that SEG is actually buying the air time on KJZZ and then selling the ad time themselves. If that's true, they wouldn't care which broadcast the fans are listening to since they get the ad money either way.
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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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Google
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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