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IndigoCoyote
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Not that too many will miss it, from the sounds of things: http://kuow2.org/
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IndigoCoyote said:
They should go back to simulcasting KGRG-FM or KEXP until they get their bearings together and find something new for this frequency. Scary though......Wondering who will pick up 91.7 next? Some Jesuscaster? ANOTHER outlet for Northwest Public Radio?.....Hope not......
Not exactly KUOW2 ending...just their broadcast on 91.7FM
Given the stipulations that the station must remain local when it was sold to PRC (Which means no K-Love, Calvary Chapel, etc...), I doubt it'll go religious. Northwest Public Radio already has KVTI, so I don't think they'd have interest in KXOT other than maybe for the pending move to Gold Mountain.
Given the stipulations that the station must remain local when it was sold to PRC (Which means no K-Love, Calvary Chapel, etc...), I doubt it'll go religious. Northwest Public Radio already has KVTI, so I don't think they'd have interest in KXOT other than maybe for the pending move to Gold Mountain.
swhyde1980 said:
NWPR still has that NPR News/Talk channel......I wouldn't put it ENTIRELY past them. They've been dying to get that signal out in some major area of Western WA (Though I'm sure KUOW would raise hell over that. But obviously KUOW really doesn't have much room to bitch about it if they did...)
There's also KING-FM. Don't know about their finances, but being a new non-com player, it's another potential scenario.
There's a lot of local public and community stations in need of a bigger reaching signal. It's just the $$$ problem......
Curiously, they don't mention that KEXP was simulcasted on the signal originally when they took it from Bates.
Seems a little premature on all parties involved since KXOT has the CP in hand for a vastly larger audience from Gold, which is a sweet site higher than Cougar but lower than Tiger.
So apparently PRC defaulted on their loan and the bankers took it back in receivership. KUOW was just acting as a babysitter on a month-to-month basis. Perhaps KUOW (PSPR) can now renegotiate with a much more....how should I say....a much more "motivated" party. Maybe, just maybe, KUOW will get a better deal since now the station is essentially (or will be soon) in foreclosure.
So apparently PRC defaulted on their loan and the bankers took it back in receivership. KUOW was just acting as a babysitter on a month-to-month basis. Perhaps KUOW (PSPR) can now renegotiate with a much more....how should I say....a much more "motivated" party. Maybe, just maybe, KUOW will get a better deal since now the station is essentially (or will be soon) in foreclosure.
No, this was a major failure on behalf of someone at KUOW.
Deciding to put a second rate audio service on a weak signal may have been a noble gesture to "diversity" or whatever... They clearly were not considering their primary mission.
If they would have put KUOW-1, their premier service, with a sketchy signal south of SeaTac, on KXOT from the beginning they may have gotten significantly better numbers in the PPM.
They put an HD2 station on a signal that covers half the metro area that their main signal doesn't reach and got HD-2 ratings.
Fail.
I wonder how much that cost them and why nobody thought of doing it right in the first place...
Deciding to put a second rate audio service on a weak signal may have been a noble gesture to "diversity" or whatever... They clearly were not considering their primary mission.
If they would have put KUOW-1, their premier service, with a sketchy signal south of SeaTac, on KXOT from the beginning they may have gotten significantly better numbers in the PPM.
They put an HD2 station on a signal that covers half the metro area that their main signal doesn't reach and got HD-2 ratings.
Fail.
I wonder how much that cost them and why nobody thought of doing it right in the first place...
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Darth_vader
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Sounds like an opportunity for Evergreen Radio Reading Service to go mainstream! w00t!
Can't imagine that, Darth. Funding was recently cut to the state library that runs it, with two staff positions unfortunately being eliminated.
I'm sure altternative ways were being explored to continue the service, and I don't know about those, but I'd be very surprised if that would occur in a way that would let them program 91.7.
Still, I've been surprised by many things!
I'm sure altternative ways were being explored to continue the service, and I don't know about those, but I'd be very surprised if that would occur in a way that would let them program 91.7.
Still, I've been surprised by many things!
It's my assumption that the loan will default. Then KUOW can buy KXOT from the receiver at a more market-based price, saving major bucks.
But they had to force the event by making it clear they're not happy with the status quo. 7 million skins is a little spendy for a NCE rimshot that doesn't really hit Seattle.
In fact, it's probably high end for a commercial rimshot that DOES hit Seattle in the current economy.
But they had to force the event by making it clear they're not happy with the status quo. 7 million skins is a little spendy for a NCE rimshot that doesn't really hit Seattle.
In fact, it's probably high end for a commercial rimshot that DOES hit Seattle in the current economy.
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Darth_vader
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@multiplex--
Do you know if WTBBL will still keep the Evergreen MP2.5 stream up? I take it that may be how it lives out the rest of its life, particularly if the s--- really hits the fan and the current SCA service gets cut as well. Probably also cutting the programming down to a single 8-hour block repeated throughout the day on loop--that's how Golden Hours have been doing it since OPB booted them out a few years ago, anyways.
(For the record, the stream is really the only way us Washingtonians in my little pocket of the state can even hear it, since nobody carries it over the air down here.)
Do you know if WTBBL will still keep the Evergreen MP2.5 stream up? I take it that may be how it lives out the rest of its life, particularly if the s--- really hits the fan and the current SCA service gets cut as well. Probably also cutting the programming down to a single 8-hour block repeated throughout the day on loop--that's how Golden Hours have been doing it since OPB booted them out a few years ago, anyways.
(For the record, the stream is really the only way us Washingtonians in my little pocket of the state can even hear it, since nobody carries it over the air down here.)
I don't_know_, but I suspect they'll remain at the current level of service as long as the budget and the staffing situation will allow.
I don't think _anyone_ wanted to make the cuts they made.
The streaming is no longer contracted out to an outside service,so that probably saves quite a bit of money.
There are some moves afoot to make some radio reading servicesHD streams,but I don't know if that's been discussed here.
Still,HD's range is limited just like SCA.
I don't think _anyone_ wanted to make the cuts they made.
The streaming is no longer contracted out to an outside service,so that probably saves quite a bit of money.
There are some moves afoot to make some radio reading servicesHD streams,but I don't know if that's been discussed here.
Still,HD's range is limited just like SCA.
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IndigoCoyote
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So, my friends, WHAT will we hear on 91.7 come Saturday AM? Anyone know anything? Any educated guesses?
With all the format/simulcast changes on 91.7 in the last 20 years, it's anybody's guess.....
My best guess would be a temporary simulcast. Why not 91.7 Mount Vernon (KSVR)? You'd give the Latino community in the South Sound a new option (They're live and local mornings en espanol until 2pm when the daypart shifts to student jocked college rock and Democracy Now!/FSRN alternative news during PM drive and back to college rock until 10pm or so when they go on the bird with Radio Bilingue.
(Actually, they're mostly Spanish now during the summer months....)
My best guess would be a temporary simulcast. Why not 91.7 Mount Vernon (KSVR)? You'd give the Latino community in the South Sound a new option (They're live and local mornings en espanol until 2pm when the daypart shifts to student jocked college rock and Democracy Now!/FSRN alternative news during PM drive and back to college rock until 10pm or so when they go on the bird with Radio Bilingue.
(Actually, they're mostly Spanish now during the summer months....)
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IndigoCoyote
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Apparently, the answer for now, is "nothing." I turned on my radio about 8pm and actually heard snatches of KSVR up in Mt. Vernon from my house in far N King County. Probably the first time I have ever heard that. SO, no carrier, no nothing from KXOT.
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