Salt Lake City Is Market No. 9

[marsneedsscoop]

Salt Lake City makes No. 9 in the list of Ten Best Markets for Radio Listeners.

http://www.infinitedial.com/2007/11/the_ten_best_markets_for_radio_2.php

-- Sean Ross, Edison Media Research, author Ross On Radio

 

[JBanks]

It would have been nice to get the station right. Hot 94-9. Been a decade since anyone even thought about calling it that. But not a bad mention other than that.

 

[marsneedsscoop]

It's my synapse lapse--since corrected. Still hard for me to not call Mix 107.3/DC "Q107" either, and that one goes back much further. But hope it still captures what's good and what could be better about the market--always a little tough to do from 2,000 miles away.

 

[JBanks]

Still a good article. For as much as people trash talk SLC it really does have some very decent radio.

 

[marsneedsscoop]

Everybody trash talks their own market. And I'm probably pretty hard on mine, too.

 

[cawasinnj]

It would have been nice to get the station right. Hot 94-9. Been a decade since anyone even thought about calling it that. But not a bad mention other than that.

Actually when The Blaze moved from 102.3 to 94.9, it was going by the mouthful "Hot 94.9, The Blaze" for a little while. That's where the callsign came from.

 

[BRNout]

I've always thought that Salt Lake was a really good radio market. After all, with this level of competition, you have to be pretty good to make it. Frankly, it's always been more interesting than Denver (which isn't a bad market either).

The article does an excellent job of highlighting the market's heritage as a great alternative market - which goes back (at least) to the early 1980s. I still have an (unscoped) aircheck of Biff Raff doing his thing on KCGL from one evening in December of 1984. Great music and a great snapshot in time.

Of course, a bit of that music lives on today in the music of 101.9 The End and My 99.5. Salt Lake is one of the very few markets where you can still hear Depeche Mode, The Cure and Tears for Fears on a daily basis. And I look forward to it with every visit (and liked it when I lived there too).