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88.3 KCPW-FM Salt Lake City to be auctioned off

e-dawg said:
I read on their gofundme page that KUER outbid the station.

www.gofundme.com

Donate to Save Public Radio in Utah, Let's Purchase KCPW !, organized by Brad Wheeler

Dear Friends and Supporters, In the next 5 days, we face an urgent and c… Brad Wheeler needs your support for Save Public Radio in Utah, Let's Purchase KCPW !
www.gofundme.com www.gofundme.com
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"Today by Brad Wheeler, Organizer

We were informed today that KUER significantly outbid us in the pursuit to purchase KCPW. Thanks to everyone who donated or shared this fundraiser's links. I asked GoFundMe to return all donations this morning. I've been very moved by some of the emails from community partners and individuals encouraging our pursuit of the station and the idea that public airwaves should be for the public. I'm very grateful to be a part of this community. Even though our efforts were unsuccessful, I'm encouraged by this endeavor. God Bless You All, and Thank You for your support."
 
TheBigA said:
They could move their HD3 classical channel. Or do what a lot of companies are doing with AAA. Check WBFO's The Bridge.
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The usual pattern for pubcasters these days seems to be to put the classical signal on the weaker of two available channels (e.g. Colorado Public Radio, KCUR in Kansas City, KBIA in mid-Missouri, the Iowa Public Radio Classical network, Capital Public Radio in north-central California, and so on), with the HD-2 of the news/spoken word station being used to extend the classical station's reach. News and spoken word brings in more contributions, typically.
 
I know there's another NPR outlet for Utah. Utah Public Radio (KUSU) by Utah State University. I wonder if University of Utah and Utah State University is part of the same government since both of them are state run education public institution. I wonder if KCPW can be affiliated with KUSU since they cover most of the state except for the Wasatch Front area.
 
e-dawg said:
I know there's another NPR outlet for Utah. Utah Public Radio (KUSU) by Utah State University. I wonder if University of Utah and Utah State University is part of the same government since both of them are state run education public institution. I wonder if KCPW can be affiliated with KUSU since they cover most of the state except for the Wasatch Front area.
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My sense is they each have their own budget, and KUER is the one that chose to spend money from its budget to buy this station. Thus they will operate it, and not KUSU. Had KUSU wanted to run it, they could have bought it. But you're correct, they have a lot of repeaters and translators around the state. The fact that they are both state institutions shouldn't matter.
 
TheBigA said:
My sense is they each have their own budget, and KUER is the one that chose to spend money from its budget to buy this station. Thus they will operate it, and not KUSU. Had KUSU wanted to run it, they could have bought it. But you're correct, they have a lot of repeaters and translators around the state. The fact that they are both state institutions shouldn't matter.
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It would be fairly rare to see that level of coordination among different universities in a state. Iowa probably did the most in that regard and the ultimate plan there was to create a network first and then transfer it to a specialized entity, which has happened.

One state to the south, each of the four campuses of the University of Missouri has an NPR member station which cooperate on some things but which run entirely independently of one another. There are no plans there for a network. Truman State University in Kirksville does have a station that's a repeater for MU's KBIA in Columbia, but that seems to be a case of an opportunity to replace a translator in an economic manner. Truman State also ran into a compliance issue with the FCC because they didn't seem to understand that the FCC treats a translator differently from a regular station.
 
Radio Bilingue? I'm not sure there's enough of a Spanish-speaking population in SLC to support an esoteric blend of public affairs and multiple genres of Latin music.

According to Nielsen, SLC has a 16% Hispanic population. It's Market #27. The SLC market has one rim-shot FM station playing Regional Mexican music, and three or four Spanish-language AM stations, mostly on the upper end of the band.
 
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