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Post by CAwasinNJ on Mar 1, 2021 18:16:56 GMT -6
I like that KNRS idea. I'd love to see what percentage of listeners are on KNRS AM vs FM.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Mar 1, 2021 18:11:10 GMT -6
scripps.com/press-releases/scripps-takes-first-steps-to-realize-ion-synergies-with-multicast-networks-move/The changes were originally scheduled for today (Mar 1) but actually started sometime between Friday and Saturday morning when the ID's (and presumably the programming) changed. Here's what changed on KUPX 16. 16.2 qubo -> Grit 16.3 IONPlus -> Laff 16.4 ShopION -> Bounce All 3 of the new networks were/are available on other stations, but it looks like those agreements will probably not be renewed. Bounce is the one that is an actual upgrade since the other channel it's on is low power KBTU 23. The networks that were discontinued are kind of a mixed bag. I don't consider ShopION much of a loss. There are a half dozen others and I personally don't see much use for them but YMMV. ION Plus was the same basic idea as ION with off-network reruns of hour dramas and ION will continue. qubo is the loss I think. I think the only other OTA network aimed at children is PBS Kids. That doesn't leave a lot of variety. The other change happened sometime between Sunday and Monday morning. KSTU added a new 13.5 for QVC, which is still available on 16.5 as well. I'm sure there will be more changes. The press release says that Court TV and Court TV Mystery will be migrating to the ION stations. Both of those are currently on 2 other stations here including co-owned Fox 13. I'm going to be very interested to see what shows up on 30.4 and 32.4 when those agreements end. What would you like to see added?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Mar 1, 2021 16:29:57 GMT -6
Oops. I left off Business 99.1. They didn't show in this report. They flipped about halfway through the reporting period so not showing up at all is a little of a surprise. It would make sense that they would have gone down (as Easy 99.1) after Christmas anyway, but to get to the not showing at all level would have to combine a significant drop as Easy followed by a complete disappearance as Business wouldn't it? (I'm making the assumption that there isn't a problem with the PPM encoder.) I can't think of another explanation. If anyone has another idea I'd like to hear it because that's not a good sign.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 26, 2021 20:51:40 GMT -6
As the great Yogi Berra allegedly said, it's deja vu all over again.
The fun house that is Washington DC has once again propelled the news/talk stations to great ratings. KNRS ended up at the top followed by KSL tied at number 2 and KUER tied at number 4. Of special note is that KUER's is a station record. (It didn't help KKAT or KCPW at all though.) I blew it last time thinking that the unusually high ratings were over. Is this now the time that Washington calms down for an extended period and interest in news/talk stations decreases? I would say there's probably still a little leftover that hasn't been counted yet. The next ratings period started Feb 4 and Trump Impeachment II lasted until Feb 13. After that, we can only hope.
In other news - the K-Bull and K-Bear dips last month looks like just anomalies, but Now is still down from its typical historical pattern. Are they settling in to a new normal? In contrast My 99.5 has been trending up recently. There could be something there.
Continuing to watch the effect the Weber State games might have on The Wave, I'm not seeing much if any. The tweak of Rewind to Bob also hasn't had much of a visible impact.
KSOP-FM has come back after a several months long slump.
I'm surprised that Kool-FM isn't showing at all yet. According to Nielsen, the HD2/translator isn't listed as still simulcasting KEGA but it doesn't look like it was before either. I find it hard to believe that almost nobody is listening to it, especially considering that the classic hits station are doing very well. Very strange.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 13, 2021 15:05:30 GMT -6
It isn't clear to me whether a paywall is involved. I understand that some of Amazon's podcast are free and others are free with Amazon Prime which a LOT of people already have.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 12, 2021 3:18:09 GMT -6
I meant to bring up the money aspect but I forgot. Thanks for reminding me Ken. I'm sure there's big money involved. It might look pretty good in the short term but I prefer to look at the total dollars in the long term. The "what makes money fastest" philosophy seems rampant in the industry as a whole because that's what stockholders look at. Fortunately Bonneville/KSL doesn't have to worry about that but they still might be in that mindset.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 11, 2021 4:21:29 GMT -6
radioink.com/2021/02/11/bonneville-podcast-goes-exclusively-to-amazon/This seems like the wrong move to me. In my opinion KSL should be using the success of this series to drive listeners to other products they own, not becoming a small cog in the Amazon machine. Use this as a launchpad for other topics that might be of interest to listeners. KSL has dozens of podcasts so why not promote them and keep all of that attention themselves? As one stop on the Amazon Train listeners presumably will still get COLD but then move on and the other podcasts they subscribe to will likely be from other producers. That doesn't help KSL. There's also the problem of becoming reliant on a third party. If Amazon cancels the distribution of the show most people aren't going to try figuring out where it came from. They'll just move on to something else. This is the danger of the much larger problem of relying on someone else who holds your fate in their hands (like Facebook.) My advice is to use these third parties to drive listeners to YOUR platform that YOU control. That way even if the third party turns off your presence there you still have everyone who found you earlier.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 10, 2021 4:28:21 GMT -6
Those are yawners to me. The big prize in that auction is the full class B 107.9 Sacramento that used to be KDND.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 10, 2021 4:07:36 GMT -6
I agree with Frank.
With patents, something that is obvious to someone in the trade is not patentable. I would think such a thing would apply in trademarks as well, like "Radio 108.1"
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 9, 2021 8:12:39 GMT -6
I see now amanuensis. The RDS is itself a digital subcarrier transmitted along with the analog signal and in a lot of cases the IBOC/HD digital signal so I would guess it has something to do with trying to get them to coexist.
Loophole I would say isn't the right word oldiesfunhouse, but I understand what they mean and actually agree with it. Translators were created to increase the broadcast area of a station, either outside their original coverage area (like what VFX used to do with 98.3) or to fill in coverage where the originating station should have been able to be heard but was geographically blocked (like what KCPW used to do with 105.3 when the 88.3 signal was in downtown Salt Lake and couldn't be heard in most of Davis County.) The FCC added the HD subchannels and AM stations to the list of what could be the originating stations and essentially created commercial LPFM. Of course broadcasters take advantage of any opportunity they're given but my personal opinion is that it was a mistake. If anyone would like to debate the pros and cons of that we can create a thread for that.
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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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