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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 28, 2021 19:34:46 GMT -6
I think the Bonneville/LDS Church connection is a very different thing from HBO/CNN/AT&T, at least in Utah. The LDS Church is deeply woven into the fabric of Utah culture and society (not to mention politics) where networks like HBO and CNN and companies like AT&T aren't, so I'd bet that a lot of Utahns know. In Denver or Phoenix or most non-Utah places the listeners probably don't know. Whether they would care or not I wouldn't even guess.
The side channels are a completely different issue. Those that don't have an analog translator are pretty much irrelevant no matter who's programming it.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 27, 2021 0:03:49 GMT -6
There's a big difference between knowing a station is off the air and being able to do something about it. As much as engineers would love to wave a magic wand to fix any and all problems, they obviously can't.
You know the Chief Engineer and I'll leave it to him to give us any details he can about what's happening.
P.S. 89.5 is KUSR. KUSU is 91.5
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 26, 2021 23:36:53 GMT -6
Years ago Bob Morey told me the reason he abandoned the LDS format wasn't due to lack of listeners but lack of advertisers. He said his numbers were great but business owners were afraid of being labeled as "LDS businesses" (which still kind of blows my mind considering where we live). And yet it doesn't seem like Bonneville has any problems selling advertising and they are part of the LDS Church. Go figure.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 25, 2021 7:16:50 GMT -6
Something nobody mentioned yet is the politics of a publicly traded company running an LDS format. Are iHeart or Cumulus going to risk their shareholders revolting? I doubt it. Bonneville would make total sense if they get another station. The future of Broadway was up in the air last I heard so something might end up happening there.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 25, 2021 7:01:31 GMT -6
107.9 never had the KLZX call letters. I think you're confusing 107.9 and 106.9. It was 106.9 that had the calls KLZX-FM from 1995 to 1998.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 23, 2021 0:45:03 GMT -6
I don't remember BBR on 1010 back then but 1010 did carry the now defunct CNN Headline News audio nearly non-stop back in the early part of the century.
I'm sure Bloomberg is 24/7. It would seem likely to me that 99.1 could get out of airing Delilah since the show and the station are both part of iHeart. On the other hand they might not want to. Delilah is (inexplicably to me) very popular and whatever audience there is for business oriented news probably evaporates after 7PM anyway.
amanuensis I'm not sure I follow you. Why wouldn't 99.1 air weather and traffic? Aren't those two elements that are pretty common across many different formats?
In TV sales contracts there's often a guarantee for a particular rating. If the show the advertiser is in doesn't hit a certain threshold it triggers what's known as a Make Good where the advertiser gets credits for the shortfall. I don't know for sure that such a thing exists in radio but I'll bet it does. It would also be pretty good business practice for any radio station that changes formats to allow advertisers to cancel or modify the contracts even if that isn't spelled out, and I'll bet they would.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 23, 2021 0:11:28 GMT -6
Trying to judge whether airing the Weber State games on 103.1 is a good idea or not based on comments on their Facebook page is foolish. In the first place, there is no context. It means that X number of people with a Facebook account were annoyed enough to go there and comment. We have no idea how many people either like having the games there or just don't care because those people are very unlikely to comment. There's also the question of how much (if any) the games affect The Wave's overall ratings. I'm not aware of any competing station they could jump to. The only indicator we have for that is the overall ratings, which at least are overwhelmingly based on the Wave format.
No sane company wants their station to do poorly. That's just crazy. If they want to flip they will.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 22, 2021 5:02:58 GMT -6
I'm surprised too. It might have been telling that Easy 99.1's December ratings weren't nearly what they were in the same period last year. We haven't gotten the Holiday book yet (it will probably be released next Wednesday) but maybe iHeart saw a trend that said it wasn't really working. It's also possible (and my hunch is) that this was a decision made by the corporate suits and the local managers didn't have a say.
The other confusing part about this to me is a simple "why?" I understand Bloomberg being in the big business markets like New York City, Boston, San Fran/Oakland, Baltimore/DC, etc, but why here?
Speaking of New York, there have been a few times over the years that I've heard a simulcast of Bloomberg's WBBR 1130 here, but I don't remember who was doing it. As I recall that simulcast was complete with NY sports, weather and traffic reports. Is that what 99.1 is doing?
Pete, I'm not sure which station you're talking about but that does remind me of what 97.5 FM Talk did for the year it was on the air (Sept 2005 - Sept 2006.) They had local news from KUTV2 at the top of each hour along with CBS News. Could that have been it?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 17, 2021 23:21:52 GMT -6
That's awesome Alpha carries that broadcast, to bad the local sports stations don't seem to carry any broadcasts of nfl games...At least theres satellite radio. Hasn't ESPN 700 carried the NFL for quite a while?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 15, 2021 3:23:39 GMT -6
Do you have that backwards Ken or am I confused? KTUB is directional nights but non-directional days. Either way you should be getting about the same signal days and nights.
Directional signals are something I really don't get at all. Is it possible the tower that broadcasts the southward lobe has failed?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 6, 2021 19:21:10 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 1, 2021 18:49:24 GMT -6
3 full power country stations vs 2 full power and a rimshot/booster isn't really a major difference. Eagle's numbers show that listeners can hear it and choose to listen. It's not the same as if there were only 2 country stations and they were full market ones and then a new 3rd full market station came in.
KALL's translator (K221GK) is 99 watts from way up near Farnsworth Peak. Whether it's worth being on the air is debatable, but it can't change the station it rebroadcasts for a while yet. The short answer is that K221GK can be fed by whatever means they want to, and according to their FCC filings it is fed by microwave.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 1, 2021 2:07:30 GMT -6
My suggestion wasn't about improving U92's ratings but rather was about improving Eagle's. 92.5 isn't a full class C but it's better than the boosters that listeners along the Wasatch Front use to hear Eagle. IMO there is more potential upside for Eagle on 92.5 than leaving U92 there. If that move happens then the question would be what to do with the 101.5 signal. The easy answer would be just make it U101.5.
Sports stations aren't going to get much in the way of ratings, so putting KALL on an FM (besides the little translator it already has) doesn't make sense to me unless there's really nothing else to go with. All of these decisions are about opportunity cost.
Putting The Eagle on 103.9 alone (I assume you mean the Lake Mountain translator) is a no go. That leaves out Ogden and North Davis.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 1, 2021 1:46:18 GMT -6
I agree with you up to a point. The Commission may keep denying appeals, but that doesn't keep someone from trying over and over in various ways. A perfect example is Ed Stolz vs Entercom in Sacramento. That started back in the late 90's and only ended a couple of years ago.
There's also the matter of the ticking silence clock. Unless I missed something, KMRI has to go back on the air by Mar 19 to avoid having the license expire as a matter of law. With the uncertainty of who is going to end up with the station, that's a problem.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Dec 30, 2020 20:17:12 GMT -6
redrambler (and his other account stickman2) are no longer members of this board.
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