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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 6, 2020 7:20:09 GMT -6
About Shen Yun, I was referring to TV and direct mail in that case but the sentiment is the same.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.) The FCC has nothing to do with copyrights, though I believe there are rules regarding broadcasting something you don't have the rights to, but I don't think that falls under the cover of copyright itself. Copyright would be under the appropriately named Copyright Office which is part of the Library of Congress. From there it gets a little complicated because there are two different potential copyright issues at play. First would be the issue of copyright of the music they're playing which is generally covered under royalties paid to ASCAP/BMI/SESAC. There's a decent chance that whatever license they had from the previous formats might still be in effect. The second would be the copyright of the stream itself since the webcasters also could have a copyright claim on the presentation. I'd be surprised if the webcasters knew they were being broadcast but who knows.
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Post by David on Feb 11, 2020 12:44:57 GMT -6
FWIW, the internet feeds on KDYL appear to have been replaced by a pre-recorded rotation of songs, with no identification or branding other than the legal ID twice an hour. My guess is that the internet music feeds kept going down, and that's what was causing the lengthy periods of dead air on 1060.
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Post by amanuensis on Feb 14, 2020 9:42:23 GMT -6
I heard the "Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself" bumper today while driving to work. If I had not already known it existed, my jaw would have hit the floor.
It seems to me very doubtful that the bumper is there through some crazy accident. At the risk of sounding crazy myself, could the owners of KDYL be getting money from China to run the station -- money that requires them to broadcast divisive propaganda? And could that bumper be the way that the station owners are claiming to China that they are doing it?
I like the songs on the loop tape. So far, I have not heard it loop, so it seems from its length that someone put some effort into curating it. Which is why it seems so implausible that the bumper could be there without anyone intending it to be there.
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Post by David on Feb 14, 2020 16:02:26 GMT -6
When China Radio International began broadcasting its programming on American AM stations about five years ago, the operation was funded in part by the Chinese government. I think that's one of the reasons why the DOJ launched an investigation. However, James Su, who owns many of the stations that were re-broadcating CRI, is an American citizen, so that may be why nothing ever came of the DOJ's investigation. It appears that the Chinese government has decided to stop funding the American radio stations re-broadcating CRI, because several of the stations owned by Mr. Su have been sold or are for sale. Moreover, I think if the operation was still being funded by China/CRI, KDYL would have put the CRI programming back on 1060 after the LMA with Radio Unica ended. The fact that KDYL is stunting with a pre-recorded loop of songs and the Jeffrey Epstein message suggests to me that China is tired of dumping money into propaganda broadcasting that no one's listening to.
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Post by David on Feb 19, 2020 15:48:28 GMT -6
The Jeffrey Epstein reference isn't the only odd thing on KDYL these days. They just played "Feliz Navidad" by Jose Feliciano around 2:40 this afternoon. I guess someone forgot to look at their calendar. ;-) But they've also been playing some really good music you don't often hear on the radio, like early Elvis Costello and Frank Zappa songs. The audio quality of the signal is pretty good for AM radio as well.
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Post by David on Mar 15, 2020 15:02:42 GMT -6
For what it's worth, KDYL has been on air with a dead carrier for at least three weeks now. The good thing about the dead carrier is that the lack of audio on KDYL's signal after dark reduces the off frequency rumbling and makes it easier to hear CKMX, a/k/a Funny 1060. It still seems like a huge waste of a 10 KW signal, but either KDYL's owner doesn't care or can't be bothered to file an STA to go silent until the station is sold.
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Post by kenglish on Mar 16, 2020 10:34:26 GMT -6
KDYL moved out of their local studios months ago. Neighbors said they heard they were moving "somewhere around the corner". When I looked around, their stl antennas and sat dish were still there, as was the old station van. I suspect they are just running with a CD player at the transmitter site. I wonder who is doing their engineering.
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Post by David on Mar 16, 2020 12:31:14 GMT -6
I seriously doubt anyone has performed any maintenance/engineering work on KDYL's transmitter recently. Besides the fact that the transmitter has been about 100 Hz off frequency for six months or more, the station was likely operating with full daytime power 24/7 up until about three months ago. There's been no audio on the carrier signal for almost a month now, and judging by the length of time KDYL has been for sale, I suspect the transmitter and/or antenna have some serious problems that the owner is unwilling to repair. As far as I know, the current owner resides in California, and it's possible he isn't even aware that the station has been broadcasting nothing but dead air for several weeks now.
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Post by radiowyoming on Mar 31, 2020 18:25:00 GMT -6
I seriously doubt anyone has performed any maintenance/engineering work on KDYL's transmitter recently. Besides the fact that the transmitter has been about 100 Hz off frequency for six months or more, the station was likely operating with full daytime power 24/7 up until about three months ago. There's been no audio on the carrier signal for almost a month now, and judging by the length of time KDYL has been for sale, I suspect the transmitter and/or antenna have some serious problems that the owner is unwilling to repair. As far as I know, the current owner resides in California, and it's possible he isn't even aware that the station has been broadcasting nothing but dead air for several weeks now. The owner knows, or should. I emailed the licensee's attorney twice in a month and got no answer
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Post by David on Mar 31, 2020 20:57:49 GMT -6
Interestingly enough, tonight is the first time in many months that I haven't heard the annoying off frequency rumbling on 1060 after dark. It could be that KDYL's owner finally shut the darn thing off until the station sells. On the other hand, maybe the 6.3 earthquake in Idaho earlier this evening caused their tower to collapse.
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Post by kenglish on Apr 1, 2020 11:53:05 GMT -6
I wonder if their power has been turned off. Someone may have been out there to read the meter for March, and maybe disconnected them. If so, the tower lighting would be off!😳
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Post by David on Apr 1, 2020 16:06:01 GMT -6
KDYL appears to have gone silent. I noticed the off frequency heterodyne was absent on 1060 last night, and the dead carrier that's been present during the day for a month is now gone. FWIW, I checked the FCC database earlier today for any new STA's, and nothing's been filed yet.
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Post by christopherjohn on Apr 1, 2020 17:19:35 GMT -6
I will have to take a look next time I’m out there at night. That tower has a lean as well last time I went past. SMH. People take care of your stations..
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Post by kenglish on Apr 1, 2020 21:41:24 GMT -6
I was going to ask if anybody lives around there...then realized it's a ghost town. Not a good place to break down after dark.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 2, 2020 11:03:45 GMT -6
I'm not at all surprised that the attorney didn't reply to you radiowyoming. I don't see why they would since they have nothing to do with running the engineering at the station. Besides, I really doubt the owner is going to pay for their attorney to answer email like that and it doesn't make sense to waste time on non-billable hours. If you had emailed the engineer that would be a different story.
David, am I correct that you saying the Idaho earthquake might have had something to do with the disappearance of KDYL's signal was a joke?
As of right now, no notices about tower lighting problems are showing with the FAA.
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