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Post by seattlefollower on May 23, 2024 22:35:19 GMT -6
Even privately held companies and public radio have been forced to make some layoffs this year. While not showing in the Salt Lake - Ogden - Provo market, Alpha Media has virtually slashed on-air staff in midwestern rural markets, touting a "new strategy" and letting go people with decades of seniority and experience. Some of these communities lost their remaining local news reporting outlet with these changes.
Bonneville made some layoffs in Seattle. I don't know about elsewhere around the country.
KUOW-FM had to lay off 8 employees, the first in their history.
KQED was able to secure 9 buyouts but may need to lay off as many as 25 more. (Of note, they employ 387 people! I had no idea commercial radio could be so robust)
KPCC announced a buyout plan.
KCRW made staff reductions via buyouts and a programming cut.
Boston’s WBUR, Chicago Public Radio, WAMU in Washington DC, New York Public Radio, and CapRadio in Sacramento also were hit with layoff or buyout requests.
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Post by seattlefollower on Jan 5, 2024 1:42:45 GMT -6
"Juan" has a rather unique format at this point - It has some content from TUDN Deportes Radio, though some was moved to KBMG-FM in the early morning hours after the transmitter situation. Weekends and evenings are largely the "Juan" 'tocando todo que le gusta' (playing everything you like) format, but daytimes are kind of a mix of things.
Mornings are the TUDN provided content, "Buenos Dias America" and "El Tiradero" Middays are a mix of local programming and Juan, including a radio classifieds show from 12-1 pm (I am not sure if this is presently going with the transmission change) 1-2 pm is Andres Gutierrez (financial advice) 2-3 pm is the very popular Dr. Cesar Lozano, who seems to give inspirational / motivational speeches 4 pm resumes sports content with a variety show, but generally a soccer focus - Fantasticos del deporte 5 pm used to be a local sports show, but I don't think that's continued with the tower loss 6 pm is Futbol de Primera, another syndicated sports show focused on soccer.
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Post by seattlefollower on Dec 4, 2023 17:34:40 GMT -6
It looks like eastern Idaho's Riverbend Communications is all in on these services, hopefully they are also figuring out how to get the HD2 and HD3 signals listed on streaming platforms beyond their own website(s). They are marketing them as "Christmas presents" and directing listeners how to download the apps for each station.
KLCE 97.3 - Adult contemporary / Christmas (main) "Soft" favorites (HD2 branded 'classy lite') "LDS/spiritual" music (HD3, 'Sunny 97')
KCVI 101.5 - Mainstream rock (whatever that means in 2023, main) Alt 101 (alternative) HD2 Cannonball 101 (feed or rebroadcast of FM translator/AM stations)
"Cannonball 101" - 101.1 FM translator / 1260 AM (north end) / 690 AM (south end) ("variety hits")
KFTZ 103.3 - CHR/HotAC (main) "Throwbacks" (HD2) "Vibez" (HD3)
KTHK 105.5 - Mainstream country (main) "Outlaw" country (HD2) "Legends" country (HD3)
Bonneville also now has a listing when you go to one of their stations to click between their different markets and available streams.
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Post by seattlefollower on Nov 10, 2023 19:44:17 GMT -6
In this market, I haven't turned the radio on to hear it, but our: Christian contemporary that is a commercial station went on 10/31 this year. They normally do run Christmas "counter programming" on spooky Halloween but return to CCM until later. Mainstream A/C owned by iHeart went sometime today or yesterday (probably yesterday for ratings book reasons) as their ads are back on TV that I admit are kind of clever, they mimic the old "order this compilation cd by mail" ads. You can tell it is a bad revenue year by how early the Christmas music hits begin. Oomph.
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Post by seattlefollower on Nov 1, 2023 19:30:48 GMT -6
via: KCPW.org I assume their semi-dead website will remain up until the term of the site registration expires.
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Post by seattlefollower on Oct 24, 2023 15:20:39 GMT -6
^ ^ ^
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Post by seattlefollower on Oct 24, 2023 15:19:56 GMT -6
Via the GoFundMe page that Brad Wheeler was operating: Now the question is - what will U. of Utah do with the frequency? I suppose they could finally give K-Ute an over the air home, though its website hasn't updated since 2021 and I don't know if it remains an active program: K-Ute Radio
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Post by seattlefollower on Jun 7, 2023 13:49:33 GMT -6
After visiting Las Vegas for a week recently, I want *this* along the Wasatch Front. Of course, theirs is a non-comm. At this point though, maybe that's a viable model for some of these niche music formats. Not sure which college it could align with, maybe the excellent communications program at (soon to be) Westminster University? www.915jazzandmore.com - site was acting strange today, here's the alt URL via UNLV page www.unlv.edu/kunv The new Ford we were in had a weird "infotaiment" system and no HDRadio chip, but of course a working SiriusXM Satellite Radio. While there, something serious happened at Nevada Public Radio as well. Their rather marginal powered classical signal (y'all are lucky to have KBYU-FM) and KNPR-FM (News) were off the air in weekday prime-time listening hours.
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Post by seattlefollower on Apr 9, 2023 13:27:17 GMT -6
Recent FCC action: 790 KOSY Texarkana AR following the failure of its transmitter, Townsquare Media has turned in the license.
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Post by seattlefollower on Mar 10, 2023 15:12:31 GMT -6
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Post by seattlefollower on Mar 9, 2023 19:40:06 GMT -6
You did play the 2nd clip all the way to the end, right? The goodbye and "plates off" of KDWN was the 2nd half of that video. Yes, but foolishly after I posted.
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Post by seattlefollower on Mar 9, 2023 19:38:16 GMT -6
Was it the $170 fee? I don't get it. Maybe. My employer recently split an AM/FM simulcast. They hadn't changed either property's call letters (it's a PPM market so it's not that important in terms of ratings) and it caused a lot of time and energy to work with a vendor because of needing to re-create the AM in our billing system. I was surprised the company didn't just file the FCC paperwork to change the AM to some sort of new call letters so we could build from scratch.
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Post by seattlefollower on Mar 3, 2023 17:42:02 GMT -6
KDWN-AM sign off recorded from the strip in HD radio:
It goes back into programming, so my guess is that Audacy is no longer billing the station but ran the transmitter with satellite for a few more days?
KXSD-AM:
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Post by seattlefollower on Jan 31, 2023 13:06:10 GMT -6
With so many signals that reach the Wasatch Front (signal strength is certainly debatable), it seems like most clusters are still building a 'primary' station and a 'flanker.' In my experience of seeing Nielsen data for demos, the points between all of these signals are almost negligible (cume is definitely a different story though). Also they vary wildly from good old 6+ Mo-Su 6a-12m rankers these days. Hopefully the "in tab" sample has improved, in my market Nielsen has encountered issues and their weighted averages to make up for it have sometimes hurt the cluster I work for. Of note, the SLC - Ogden - Provo ratings are probably determined by a panel of just under 1,000 people (not households, individual people) for over 2 million potential listeners.
So, it may be that for the agency and national business that Broadway is being hit with, the strategy may be hope that K U U U will become a solid flanker to K U D D. iHeart already seems to follow the idea with K Z H T and K J M Y; Bonneville likely does this with strong 'adult' numbers for K S F I and K R S P (albeit one more for women, one more for men), Cumulus might try this with their C H R and A C combo, etc.
Regardless, it's a crowded field for a common set of artists and I am not sure how this might work out. I do feel for any direct clients that were "U92" fans, I think at this point their dollars may be better spent on another signal or even another medium.
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Post by seattlefollower on Nov 21, 2022 13:20:18 GMT -6
This is relatively "old" news (almost 3 weeks now), but worth noting. "The Beat" has a new programmer.
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