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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jul 16, 2009 22:43:59 GMT -6
Fox13 is currently running a heavy rotation of commercials for "The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet". The weird part is that the show was canceled in January and I think they stopped production in June. Why on earth would you burn ad dollars for a doomed show? I don't get it.
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Post by dxstuboy on Jul 18, 2009 14:13:50 GMT -6
I have heard a ton of these commercials on our stations (KUBL and KBER) within the past two days as I have been up to my neck in work with George Strait and Incubus coming to USANA. Now I think different of them. Stop airing them FOX13. The show is dead.
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Post by David on Aug 14, 2009 1:49:42 GMT -6
Apparently no one at FOX 13 reads this board. Just this afternoon I heard a promo for the Morning Show With Mike and Juliet on KYLZ 104.7.
Speaking of commercials that need to be taken out of rotation, does ANYONE at Citadel pay attention to the commercials that are airing on KKAT-AM 860? Just a couple of days ago, I heard a commercial for GM cars which mentioned that OnStar was standard equipment on the 2008 Chevy Malibu! Isn't it about time for the 2010 models to come out?
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Post by dxstuboy on Aug 14, 2009 12:23:39 GMT -6
I have no idea who takes care of the KKAT-AM commercials, but I know that station has problems with them. There was one night where for half an hour straight, it was commercials, all repeating.
As far as the others at Citadel, I don't think that is much of a problem. They are usually on top of things like that, otherwise the sales department would eat us alive.
My thoughts are, either nobody is there to watch it, or nobody cares. I hope its not the latter.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 14, 2009 22:25:45 GMT -6
Whoever fouled up KKAT might have been local or it might have been on the national feed. No easy way to know. I'd guess it was local, but you never know.
Just something to keep in mind.
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Post by David on Aug 16, 2009 5:33:07 GMT -6
Based on what I've heard on other Citadel stations, it sounds like an automation problem. For example, I was scanning the FM band last Sunday and happened to notice that the True Oldies feed from KKAT-AM was being broadcast on KKAT-FM 107.5 after the NASCAR race had ended. I think that the True Oldies feed continued to be broadcast on 107.5 for about a half hour or 45 minutes before anyone noticed. While it was nice to hear the True Oldies Channel in FM stereo rather than low-fi AM mono, I imagine there must have been more than a few classic country fans scratching their heads and wondering what happened to Merle Haggard and George Jones.
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Post by dxstuboy on Aug 16, 2009 13:54:23 GMT -6
Funny how those two stations are nowhere near each other in the building, they are back to back wall wise, but you have walk down another hallway from KKAT-FM to get to KKAT-AM. Me wonders if there is a switch that allows for any station to be played on another station at any given time. It would likely be back in engineering though, not in the studios themselves. Odd.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 17, 2009 0:41:33 GMT -6
The way a properly engineered cluster would be set up would be for all sources to be routed through master control and then distributed to the individual control rooms. Even the sources that are in the same room should be routed through master. That way everyone can have access to anything anywhere anytime. Another benefit is that if one studio goes down, you just run out of another one temporarily. No problem.
As for 107.5 running True Oldies, did you happen to notice if the switch back to Country Legends was on an even hour or half hour? I would guess there was an automatic switch somewhere that kept that feed on air for a certain period of time and then dumped out. There could have been extended coverage so the programmers had to make sure they didn't switch over too early and cut off the end. (Think 'Heidi Game')
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Post by David on Aug 25, 2009 8:23:48 GMT -6
The way a properly engineered cluster would be set up would be for all sources to be routed through master control and then distributed to the individual control rooms. Even the sources that are in the same room should be routed through master. That way everyone can have access to anything anywhere anytime. Another benefit is that if one studio goes down, you just run out of another one temporarily. No problem. As for 107.5 running True Oldies, did you happen to notice if the switch back to Country Legends was on an even hour or half hour? I would guess there was an automatic switch somewhere that kept that feed on air for a certain period of time and then dumped out. There could have been extended coverage so the programmers had to make sure they didn't switch over too early and cut off the end. (Think 'Heidi Game') I didn't happen to notice if the switch back to Country Legends took place on the half hour or top of the hour, CA. I just remember thinking that it was odd to hear Scott Shannon on 107.5, but I figured that it was just another format change. After all, we all know how often SLC stations change formats, right?  |
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