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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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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 10, 2024 0:42:59 GMT -6
When I think of "beautiful music" I'm thinking Mantovani, 101 Strings, Ferrante & Teicher and other similar artists. Is that what is on KVWJ and what you mean, amanuensis?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 4, 2024 20:43:07 GMT -6
I've been following the notices of applications for new LPFM stations that have started to trickle out from the filing window last month. The only one that's really caught my attention so far is from Weber State, specifically credited to "KWCR, student radio organization." The application is for 100 watts at 93.7 with an antenna at about 44th St and Washington Blvd in South Ogden.
I'm really surprised by this. It seemed like they had a huge headache on their hands with fines, challenges to the license, the inability to find a new transmitter location, etc. I thought when they threw in the towel and sold 88.1 to EMF that it would be the end of them broadcasting and they would have the relative ease of being an online service only, not subject to FCC regulations. Maybe the students actually want to be on the air.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 4, 2024 20:25:32 GMT -6
That's really interesting that they aren't running the Juan format. Is it possible that you were hearing a distant station and not KTUB?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 3, 2024 0:17:52 GMT -6
One of my jobs as moderator is to keep spam off this forum. Recently there has been a sharp increase in the number of spammers applying for access and it's gotten out of control. To combat these spammers I am beginning to ban access to the forum from areas of the world outside of North America where spammers have been applying from. This is very unlikely to cause any problems for legitimate users but if you receive a warning "You have been banned from this forum" and you haven't done anything to warrant a banning, try connecting a different way including deactivating any VPN you might be using.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 2, 2024 23:41:10 GMT -6
Yes Broadway owns 700 now, but you're right that Clear Channel did own it a long time ago. I wasn't thinking of previous owners of current sports stations.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 2, 2024 8:03:35 GMT -6
(Sorry I'm late on this. It's been a busy weekend.)
The first thing to take a look at is the Christmas music. For reference: My 99.5 flipped sometime before this ratings period started; The Eagle flipped Nov 10, the second day of the period; FM 100.3 flipped Nov 17.
FM 100.3 won, of course. Their jump wasn't as big as in years past but they were already so high that they actually had the best "December" numbers going back as far as my records go (2010). They also had the 4th highest rating in the country.
My 99.5 got some love too and had an enormous jump.
In its waning days The Eagle did not fair well and went into a tailspin. I was afraid of that. They were oddly running a combination of non-country Christmas music that could be heard elsewhere mixed with country Christmas, but with a high amount of repetition. FM 100.3 and My 99.5 had the straight ahead Christmas market covered, but even for listeners who waded through that to hear the country songs there were too many repeats too often IMO.
In other news, KODJ and Now 97.9 took big hits this month while Mix 105.1 jumped big.
Bob's slide last month was followed by a smaller slide this one.
Power 94.9/101.9 also took a slide.
And The Beat posted a decent percentage gain for the second month in a row.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 2, 2024 7:11:20 GMT -6
I completely forgot to check the radio on NYE. Did anyone remember?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 2, 2024 7:09:12 GMT -6
While checking the status of KDYL for Ken in another thread I checked on the status of other silent AMs and found that apparently KTUB applied for and was granted special temporary authority for 10 watts from a whip antenna located at the Seventh Day Adventist Church next to the Mountain America Credit Union on 9000 S in West Jordan. (The FCC apparently doesn't think engineering STAs are worth including in their daily reports. Thanks FCC.)
There are a couple of interesting things in their filing. Of immediate interest is that they state they resumed operation on Oct 16, almost a year after going silent. Their contour projection shows they should be audible in the Kerns/Sandy/Riverton area. Can anyone in that area confirm hearing anything?
They also say that there are 4 possible sites they're looking at for a new permanent site. They don't say what those are, but that there are that many I find intriguing. Lack of land space for AM sites has been an ongoing topic for a while. Could there be space for a new site or are these sites all multiplexing on existing sites? I'm going to be very interested to see where they end up. I couldn't even guess where that might be.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 2, 2024 6:26:02 GMT -6
I haven't heard anything. Not even an application to remain silent.
(And while we're at it, I haven't heard of any new news for KOGN or KMRI either.)
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