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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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Post by CAwasinNJ on Dec 30, 2020 16:57:46 GMT -6
I think grouping U92 in with the HD2's is overstating things a little. That being said, they are doing poorly. Broadway has been cleaning house recently, so it would make sense to do something about their lowest rated FM. What about putting The Eagle on 92.5? Country seems to be more popular in the market and the rimshot signal on 101.5 has always been a problem. The old signal could either take the U format or become something else.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Dec 29, 2020 16:58:17 GMT -6
All Access is reporting that Vic Michael is selling KNIT 1320 to the company that's been running it since April 2019. The filing isn't showing yet in the FCC database, but AA says the purchase price is $200,000. That's twice what he bought it for, but doesn't take into account the rebuilding of the site now shared by KNIT and KJJC.
I wish I knew what to make of that. I wouldn't even be able to hazard a guess whether he turned a profit on it. At least the station stayed around and should see its 100th anniversary on May 8 2022. Do we think we've seen the last of Vic Michael in the SLC area for a while? I think anything's possible.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Dec 29, 2020 16:14:50 GMT -6
Sorry I didn't get to this last week when it came out, but it was a hectic weekend. I'm sure it was for at least some of you as well. I'm not sure how many of you really care about my musings on the ratings but here they are. In my last ratings posting I said that the election season was over and unless something crazy happened I didn't see KNRS' and KSL's numbers staying as high as they were. I blew that one, after all this is 2020 the year when everything crazy happened. In retrospect I should have known that the interest in the vote counting, election lawsuits and so on would have continued to drive news/talk numbers. It did. KNRS did drop from the #1 perch down to #3, but their numbers were in line with September and October. KSL stayed at #2 and actually was up slightly, though they have other things going for them of course. KUER was also up significantly to their best numbers in at least 2 years. (I didn't go back further than that.) The new #1? Yep, FM100.3 by a lot. Expect that number to grow for the Holiday book. You might even be able to see their ratings from space. Easy 99.1 grew again as well, though they aren't close to the numbers they managed to pull this time last year. We'll have to see how that goes. The slide of Now continues and has gotten a little worse. The Holiday book doesn't actually end until Jan 6, so maybe that will be a saving grace for them? Mix has showed some really nice growth now for 2 months in a row, even with the flocking to Christmas music. No ratings showing for KMES 1430. They either don't subscribe, are too low to list or both. I'd put my money on both.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Dec 25, 2020 10:13:59 GMT -6
With today's computer assisted playlists it's theoretically possible to coordinate two stations and be live on both, but that would be so insane I would have a hard time believing anyone would be nuts enough to even try it. It could be that he's voicetracking both. One cool possibility might be doing it in near realtime. He could alternate recording the voicetracks for each station a half hour or an hour before they will air (to give a cushion in case of a problem) and then send them to each station to drop into the automation system. He might also be live on one and voicetracking the other during songs/stopsets/etc. I'm sure he could do it, though whether he is is pure speculation by me. One way to keep straight when station he's working on would be keeping a cue card in front of him. That's a trick that's been used by talent working for multiple stations for decades. Sometimes it goes really wrong. Example: JackPackardTUR.mp3 (479.01 KB)
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Dec 21, 2020 4:59:22 GMT -6
Bob is live, complete with lots of liners. The switch happened sometime before 3AM. Their positioning is "80's, 90's and whatever" so basically they just went back to variety hits a la Jack, Mike, Ben, Tony and all those other guys names.
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