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So I'm guessing 1/31/17 at noon, 94.5 becomes // 770 KTTH. 88.9 will still be KMIH I assume. KMIH's 94.5 had an impressive signal for 62w.
I still can't believe there are radio broadcasting classes in HS in this day and age. From what I've heard KMIH has rarely broken out of automation.
Even KASB-89.9 is still alive and well over at Bellevue HS, on 60w. They used to be 89.3 before KNHC boosted power and went IBOC. Used to hear them up in Bothell, Mill Creek, even Gold Bar on occasion - that is all occupied by KXIR now. Isn't KASB still mainly top 40?
 
crainbebo said:
So I'm guessing 1/31/17 at noon, 94.5 becomes // 770 KTTH. 88.9 will still be KMIH I assume. KMIH's 94.5 had an impressive signal for 62w.
I still can't believe there are radio broadcasting classes in HS in this day and age. From what I've heard KMIH has rarely broken out of automation.
Even KASB-89.9 is still alive and well over at Bellevue HS, on 60w. They used to be 89.3 before KNHC boosted power and went IBOC. Used to hear them up in Bothell, Mill Creek, even Gold Bar on occasion - that is all occupied by KXIR now. Isn't KASB still mainly top 40?
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Hmmmm....Last I heard, MIHS had an LPFM project too, KDXB-LP 95.3.
 
Bongwater said:
Hmmmm....Last I heard, MIHS had an LPFM project too, KDXB-LP 95.3.
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Still do...

Last time I checked, KMIH had a decent Rock AC format during the daytime...definitely not the type of stuff folks born in 1999-2003 would probably be interested in DJing...but their parents might....

Makes me wonder if KDXB (as it is owned by KMIH Booster Club...not the school district as KMIH and its former 94.5 tx) will run the rock hits format for 95.3 and let the Hotjamz and Mercer Island sporting events hang out on 88.9.

And considering KTTH is moving 94.5 off the tower in Capitol Hill, I'd wonder if the old 94.5 equipment will be re-purposed for 95.3 when possible? Getting a lease and antenna on a tower is often a huge hurdle in a LPFM's battle to get on the air.

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Maybe 95.3 Mhz could keep the Hot Jamz CHR branding and let 88.9 go Classic Rock. That would be interesting!
 
Actually, the LP FM is on 101.1, in a timeshare with a community station. Did anyone listen to Throwback Thursday on 88.9? That will be the new format. As for 101.1, I'm thinking the CHR is going to move there. Radio Insight is reporting the new station will be known as 88.9 The Bridge.
 
If you're talking about the "return liners" after commercial stop sets, they have always been scheduled for 10 seconds, but a number of ours are shorter, due to the production guy not understanding. He does now...
 
bobdavcav said:
Bill, I lost you there. What post were you referring to?
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Sorry, your post "Bill, do you know if the breaks for imaging on the Hot AC network have gotten longer? I'm really noticing on the Jet that there are some long breaks there that aren't always being filled by what imaging runs."
 
Hmm. Is the satelite feed supposed to sync with the local automation, or more likely the other way around, to determine what imaging runs where? I was down that way in August and heard one particular transition out of a song into a jingle which you've had for years, into another song. The problem was, the jingle ran, then there was a couple seconds of dead air, then the network sweeper ran into the start of the song.
 
bobdavcav said:
Hmm. Is the satelite feed supposed to sync with the local automation, or more likely the other way around, to determine what imaging runs where?
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As with any network feed or format, there is a clock for certain shows or day parts which align with the station log for the same time period. For example; Dial Global may have a :5 or:10 image promo slot coming out of a break back into music. Typically they will have their jocks provide a prerecorded liner for the station to be used in that slot. The only synchronization, is the network sends various triggers down the line to play those events during the show. There is a time-sync trigger at the TOH intended for syncing the affiliate station automation clocks.

An occasional goof may not be the local station's fault. I've personally heard and seen live at the station, where DG has missed playing an image liner or missed some other event. Doesn't happen very often, but it happens.
 
Kelly A said:
As with any network feed or format, there is a clock for certain shows or day parts which align with the station log for the same time period. For example; Dial Global may have a :5 or:10 image promo slot coming out of a break back into music. Typically they will have their jocks provide a prerecorded liner for the station to be used in that slot. The only synchronization, is the network sends various triggers down the line to play those events during the show. There is a time-sync trigger at the TOH intended for syncing the affiliate station automation clocks.

An occasional goof may not be the local station's fault. I've personally heard and seen live at the station, where DG has missed playing an image liner or missed some other event. Doesn't happen very often, but it happens.
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And in my earlier response, I noted that our production guy had not always produced the proper length liner. If the network sends a closure for a :10 liner, and the local liner is only :08, there'll be 2 seconds dead air. Not good..
 
I haven't been down that way lately, but at 99 watts I'd be surprised if they got anywhere outside of the Eastside with CFBT booming down from the north and KRXY to the south in the natural FM signal amplifier known as Puget Sound. But seeing the Eastside is where most of the KTTH audience is anyway, I don't think anyone is sweating it...
 
Did they make the right decision moving to Cougar?

xmtrland said:
Back to the topic...can you hear the Truth on 94.5? It's a new signal to DX! Can you get it.
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Hmm. Bonneville moved 94.5 to Cougar. I wonder if they made the right decision. Sure, with 99 watts ERP it covers most of Bellevue and many parts of Seattle and the Renton/Kent Highlands. Yet I was on the 405 and I-90 and there's so much multipath and low signal coverage on the freeway maybe they would have been better off back on Capitol Hill.

I say this because I assume KTTH is mostly in-car listenership. If your audience is mostly "in-car", and you can't adequately serve the nearby freeways (Southbound 405 from Bellevue to Renton, Eastbound I-90 from Factoria to Issaquah) then wouldn't it be better to have the signal pointing Eastward from Seattle or even Downtown Bellevue?

Did they make the right decision?
 
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Hmm. Bonneville moved 94.5 to Cougar. I wonder if they made the right decision. Sure, with 99 watts ERP it covers most of Bellevue and many parts of Seattle and the Renton/Kent Highlands. Yet I was on the 405 and I-90 and there's so much multipath and low signal coverage on the freeway maybe they would have been better off back on Capitol Hill.

I say this because I assume KTTH is mostly in-car listenership. If your audience is mostly "in-car", and you can't adequately serve the nearby freeways (Southbound 405 from Bellevue to Renton, Eastbound I-90 from Factoria to Issaquah) then wouldn't it be better to have the signal pointing Eastward from Seattle or even Downtown Bellevue?

Did they make the right decision?
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That is a good question. If I were a KTTH listener, I think I'd just leave my radio on 770. Sure, the reception may not be ideal, but the footprint for the new 94.5 is not great, and like you said, it has problems with multipath. What would a real listener do who isn't interested in dx and reception? I would say they would be more likely just to leave their radio on 770...
 
fordranger797 said:
That is a good question. If I were a KTTH listener, I think I'd just leave my radio on 770. Sure, the reception may not be ideal, but the footprint for the new 94.5 is not great, and like you said, it has problems with multipath. What would a real listener do who isn't interested in dx and reception? I would say they would be more likely just to leave their radio on 770...
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...and if Bonneville gets two FM licenses from Entercom, and puts their AM talkers on FM (which they like to do...they believe in talk, news, sports & money) the FX on 94.50 MHz is just going to be a redundancy, and possibly sold off.
 
KXA said:
...and if Bonneville gets two FM licenses from Entercom, and puts their AM talkers on FM (which they like to do...they believe in talk, news, sports & money) the FX on 94.50 MHz is just going to be a redundancy, and possibly sold off.
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Ha ha. Sold off, that's a good one. They just bought it!

Due to the FCC's "AM Revitalization Rule" for AM stations with reduced nighttime antenna patterns, 94.5 will be helpful to KTTH for awhile.
 
FMSteve said:
Ha ha. Sold off, that's a good one. They just bought it!

Due to the FCC's "AM Revitalization Rule" for AM stations with reduced nighttime antenna patterns, 94.5 will be helpful to KTTH for awhile.
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Yes, that is true, but that deal was made before the announcement of the Entercom CBS merger.

Your worst nightmare...96-5 The Truth
 
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FMSteve said:
Hmm. Bonneville moved 94.5 to Cougar. I wonder if they made the right decision. Sure, with 99 watts ERP it covers most of Bellevue and many parts of Seattle and the Renton/Kent Highlands. Yet I was on the 405 and I-90 and there's so much multipath and low signal coverage on the freeway maybe they would have been better off back on Capitol Hill.

Did they make the right decision?
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These questions are indicative of FM translators in urban areas, period. Just because one has an FM channel and signal on that channel, doesn't mean it will cover with the reliability listeners have come to expect of full-power FM stations. Your average listener thinks a station is a station, a signal is a signal. A commuter that can only reliably hear a translator a couple miles, they won't bother switching between AM and FM.
 
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