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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 7, 2021 2:51:26 GMT -6
Yes, K280GJ is on Lake Mountain.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 7, 2021 2:19:18 GMT -6
FWIW KJZZ has picked up at least some of the Stadium programming. They ran live college basketball on Thursday. This is in addition to games that they produce themselves.
Now that I think about it this makes sense. KJZZ's owner Sinclair owns part of Stadium. I wouldn't be surprised if it got picked up by either KUTV or KJZZ if they can figure out how to squeeze it in. The odd man out is Dabl which they don't have a stake in.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 6, 2021 17:32:17 GMT -6
105.5 is K288GY Tooele and 103.9 is K280GJ Provo. Keep in mind that for translators the community of license is even more of a fiction than for full service stations, though they are pretty close in both of those cases. Translators do not need to ID aurally and usually don't. They send the ID by shifting the carrier which can be picked up by special equipment. There's no loophole that the translators are using. Translators are defined as rebroadcasting the audio of another station. That's what they're doing.
amanuensis, I'm not sure what you mean about RDS and coverage area. Could you clarify?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 2, 2021 4:53:02 GMT -6
The Scripps company owns Fox 13 and CourtTV so it was probably inevitable that the two would end up together. Fox 13 has dropped Stadium from 13.3 and Charge from 13.4 and replaced them with CourtTV and CourtTV Mystery. At this point CourtTV remains on 30.4 and CourtTV Mystery remains on 32.4 (mislabeled as Escape). Charge is still available on 14.4 also.
I'm sure this change will help the CourtTV Mystery fans in more northern Utah who can receive Fox 13 but can't get KUTH 32. I don't think losing the duplicate of Charge is any loss, especially because it was malformed the last time I looked at it anyway. I'm going to be interested to see if anyone picks up Stadium. Having new programming on 30.4 and 32.4 would be good too. RetroTV maybe?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 2, 2021 3:33:22 GMT -6
Frank, am I correct in assuming the internet feed you're talking about is coming from 45.79.99.31:8000? (If not please ignore everything I'm about to say.) I found that by accident back in early December I think. Before you changed the port numbers I had saved that as the feed for Utah's Goat and I didn't realize I was listening to the other feed for a while. Anyway, I've listened off and on since and I've never heard any dropout problems so the output from your end doesn't seem to be a problem. One thing you could try would be to use a 3rd party VPN service on the receiving end. That would change the path across the internet that the data has to go through and might bypass any clogged peering connections that are causing you trouble. Do you have the same trouble feeding KQMB?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 1, 2021 2:44:06 GMT -6
I haven't sent an email yet, but that's not a bad idea.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 1, 2021 2:40:31 GMT -6
I'm 99% sure that you moving your antenna around doesn't have anything to do with whether the audio comes through, it's just a coincidence. Frank has talked about STL problems in the past and I'm pretty sure that's what's happening. The audio feed to KKUT is dropping out so there's nothing for it to rebroadcast on the HD4 when that happens. Hopefully he'll be by shortly and can give us an update.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 30, 2021 2:28:10 GMT -6
Um, no it's not locally owned unless they're talking about stockholders who live locally. I don't buy that for a minute. Both are owned by iHeart who is the largest radio operator in the US. It was also KJMY HD2 that was discussed giving the wrong community of license almost a year ago. ( talkingutahradio.proboards.com/thread/1915/easy-99-1-missing ) Maybe whoever is in charge just doesn't know what they're doing?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 30, 2021 2:09:53 GMT -6
I'm trying to think of how HD1, 2 and 3 could be stronger than an HD4. Unless KKUT is doing one of those experimental things where the digital carrier is only on one side of the analog signal then all of the HD channels would be on the same physical carrier. You don't mean that the level is lower do you Terry?
I don't know if the station has officially launched yet, but since you didn't mention the branding I'll assume it hasn't. Hopefully Frank will be here soon to let us know what he can.
KQMB's licensed contour hasn't gone anywhere near Provo for quite a while.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 29, 2021 6:05:17 GMT -6
I really don't understand this so maybe somebody can explain it to me. 2 News at 7 (airing on KJZZ and KMYU) has used the phrase "Utah's only 7PM newscast" for a long time. How do they figure that when KUCW has also been airing a 7PM newscast since September? This doesn't help their credibility as journalists in my book.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 29, 2021 4:35:10 GMT -6
You might want to reread the second sentence of the first paragraph of my original post.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 29, 2021 1:14:47 GMT -6
Before we even get to the ratings themselves I need to point out that this Holiday period is different from the typical Holiday period, and not just because of That Virus. Due to a quirk of the calendar it actually ran 5 weeks (Dec 3 - Jan 6) instead of the usual 4. That comes out to 23 days in the "Christmas season" including Christmas Day, plus 12 days after Christmas. That's going to skew the results. That being said.....
I'm sure nobody's surprised that FM100.3 came out on top. The ratings weren't as high as in previous years, but see above. I'm sure Bonneville is still very happy.
KSL and KNRS had their numbers return to the general area where they more typically are. I'm honestly not sure where they might go for January. It was yet another crazy month in Washington and that might have driven listeners back to the news/talk stations. KUER meanwhile has maintained their higher than normal ratings which is also very interesting.
The dip for Now 97.9 I mentioned in last month's review reversed a little, though it's still down from where it normally is. That still bears watching as does K-Bear who's been sliding over the past few months, and K-Bull who took a hit. (See what I did there?)
To follow up on the question from another thread about The Wave, they've remained pretty consistent for the last 4 months. If the Weber State games are hurting them it isn't showing here.
No ratings yet for Kool-FM. They might still be lumped in with The Eagle. We'll have to see.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 29, 2021 0:30:04 GMT -6
You just beat me to the posting. The direct link to the explanation for the filing is at: licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101824546&qnum=5010©num=1&exhcnum=2Playing a little devil's advocate, we should keep in mind that the filing is from the point of view of the Receiver. I'm sure the other side has a very different view. The technical side of the filing is also very interesting. The original silent authorization expired back on October 6 so this filing is quite late. The bigger deadline is midnight on this coming March 19. If the station is still silent then it will expire by law. It might be possible (though I'm far from sure) to petition to Commission to set aside that expiration due to extenuating circumstances but I wouldn't count on it. The deadline is only about a month and a half away and STA applications and construction take time. This depresses me.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 28, 2021 19:46:40 GMT -6
USU's Chief Engineer is Friend Weller, aka friendlee, a longtime contributor here.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 28, 2021 19:38:32 GMT -6
Taken by itself it wasn't too bad, but it was hugely lower than they got for the same period in 2019. They also didn't improve in the Holiday period.
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