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Post by amanuensis on Jul 3, 2014 17:14:46 GMT -6
I sure wish they had not sold 1010 AM. I really liked being able to continue listening once my car got south of the Point of the Mountain. They should have sold the FM instead.
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Post by amanuensis on Jun 22, 2014 10:52:46 GMT -6
Wow. A real honest-to-Marconi Beautiful Music station. I've been looking for one for a while now. A lot of people confuse Beautiful Music with Lite AC. *shakes head* Thank you for that.
I'm sure you know that many of the stations that used to play Beautiful Music transitioned from that to Lite AC on the path to where they are now.
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Post by amanuensis on Jun 20, 2014 9:52:16 GMT -6
While we are sharing favorite Lite AC stations, I would like to give a shout-out to a station in Louisville, KY, WESI. www.easyrock1051.com/ I don't know how they sound on the ground, having never been there, but their stream is excellent and their PD does a great job with the music -- until about 5 pm (MT) when Delilah comes on. Oh, and while we are talking about formats that are not really programmed anymore, let's give a toast to KMGR in Delta, Utah for their Full Service format midutahradio.com/kmgr and KNCT-FM in Texas, still running Beautiful Music! www.knct.org/knctfm.htm(Now you know which stations I listen to at work when the office gets too noisy.)
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Post by amanuensis on Jun 15, 2014 14:37:40 GMT -6
The broadcast is definitely in stereo. Remember that KSQN is a rimshot so the signal is going to be weaker. If you're at some distance from the main and/or boosters your radio is probably going to blend to mono. That would also explain Timmy's issue with the sound not being bright enough. When you blend to mono the high end gets rolled off and it does sound much more like 10kHz AM. I'm only about a dozen miles from the Bountiful booster, so I'm getting a solid signal and it sounds fine to me. The booster in Utah County (where I work) is now sounding good. But the booster serving southwest Salt Lake County (I live in West Jordan) is still sounding as flat as Sprite left out for a day. I realize that rimshots have their quirks, but when 103.1 was Jack FM, it sounded okay at my house. Downtown SLC sounds pretty muddy too.
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Post by amanuensis on Jun 12, 2014 14:52:31 GMT -6
I've heard a lot of AM stations that have better sound quality for music than 103.1. Is it even in stereo? Whatever the problem is, it does not affect the Internet stream. I've listened to it a lot today, and, while it may not be the highest bandwidth stream that I have ever heard, it is perfectly adequate. Could the problem be with the transmitter itself? Could it have been switched into monophonic mode when 103.1 switched to the AM simulcast?
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Post by amanuensis on Jun 12, 2014 9:48:40 GMT -6
I've heard a lot of AM stations that have better sound quality for music than 103.1. Is it even in stereo?
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 26, 2014 8:04:48 GMT -6
KOSY was a lite AC many years ago. Then they waffled back and forth between being lite AC and a mainstream AC for a while before giving up on the lite AC completely. I think you have to follow the money here. Lite AC is an older demo.
I remember that when KOSY first launched, it billed itself as the "Softest Place on the Dial" and as a place that was completely safe for family listening. I am not sure how either of those marketing efforts were expected to appeal to the male demographic. So they were in essence writing off half of the listening audience right there.
I agree that you are not going to get too many 20-somethings interested in a station playing Barry Manilow or Kenny Rogers. And I don't want to listen to them 24/7. But at work I do not want Blue Oyster Cult.
Billing -- well, yes. But all of a smallish pie might very well be more pie than a small slice of a large pie that you constantly have to spend (on DJs and promotions) to keep.
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Post by amanuensis on Mar 25, 2014 7:37:17 GMT -6
Long time poster on the other board for Utah radio, but just a lurker here until this thread motivated me to join.
I've thought for a long time that Utah's radio groups were leaving money on the table by not having a Light Rock station. I often put my headphones on at work and listen to a station in Louisville, Kentucky.
FM 100 used to be somewhat of a light rock station but has now moved firmly into AC, and even Hot AC during certain hours of the day.
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