650 KENI NOW STREAMING LIVE 24/7

[northwoods]

Just came across this within the past week or so, but I'm guessing News/Talk KENI 650 in Anchorage has been streaming live 24/7 for only a short time since the player window still shows the iheart radio logo as the station logo still does not show up yet. Here is the link:

http://www.650keni.com/mediaplayer

Prior, it had only streamed live during Rick Rydell's show. Now I'm just waiting for News/Talk KFBX 970 in Fairbanks to start streaming live 24/7.

 

[richllewis]

Listening from the lower 48 kind of keeps me wondering how KENI gets away with not airing 60 second spots on their local talk shows. There cannot be that little in the way of advertising dollars being spent in Anchorage to make it profitable? The bumper music they do play makes them the coolest talk station in the country.

 

[VelvetR]

Anchorage is a small town.

KENI is a small signal despite its alleged 50,000 Watts.

Reason for the signal is not readily apparent though the transmitter location is tragic when compared with
that of KFQD which is also 50-kW but up the dial a tad at 750. Ground conductivity coupled with a location
in a bowl of mountains that keeps the signal weak out where the people live?

 

[AKtech]

A couple of things:

The commercials breaks you hear on the stream is NOT is what is played on the air. Competely different material. Think of the stream you listen to as a satellite fed station with KENI programming serving as the satellite feed. If you hear a commercial on the a stream it's a paid for commercial. Everything else is fill material used to match the length of the commercial break of the terresterial station.

The site being in a bowl doesn't matter as long as the listners are in the same bowl (which most are). One thing I do know is KENI also transmits a digital signal along with thier analog signal which may contribute to thier preceived lower power than KFQD.

 

[VelvetR]

The site being in a bowl doesn't matter as long as the listners are in the same bowl (which most are). One thing I do know is KENI also transmits a digital signal along with thier analog signal which may contribute to thier preceived lower power than KFQD.

Streaming is realistically of little value to people in cars though that is slowly changing.

The population migration is out of the Anchorage bowl toward the North. Where KENI has little signal. They're not shifting their format away from the population; the population is moving out of the bowl. If the ownership were serious about wanting to keep their AM investment alive they'd be thinking about relocating the transmitter site across the inlet. Somebody at KFQD was thinking a long way ahead when they moved across the water!

 

[AKtech]

Streaming is not about in car listning. It's about listeners who can't get your station on thier new Bose radio, the small clock radio in thier office or house. Noise from other man made sources is AM's biggest problem. This was QD's problem when they moved across the inlet and was part of thier decision to stream.

More people are moving to the Valley. But it still doesn't make since to relocate, not as long as the population of Anchorage is 3 times that of the Valley. From what I remember, it wasn't forward thinking that promped QD's management to move across the inlet. The muni wouldn't let them build a 400 ft tower in Anchorage. They choose the location across the inlet because of rules were less resrictive. The FAA held up that construction by over a year.