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RE: My Research on Minot, ND
Brian Vita wrote:
>It is interesting that this thread began as I've arrived in the area.
>Although I'm not in Minot proper, I'm within 30 miles of it. The only AM
>station that I've been listing to is KRYR which is a Clear Channel station.
>What struck me most is that it seems to be loaded with local information.
>I've been hearing local swim team scores as well as other very local news.
>I don't know if that's been the regular format of the station or if its been
>beefed up since the incident that you've been discussing.
Do you mean KFYR? Clear Channel bought them from Meyer Broadcasting around
3 years ago, but they've always been very local. Wisely, CC didn't change
that about them.
I think that's where CC ended up with so many Minot stations...a lot of
them were previously owned by Meyer.
>Its obvious that the station is automated in several dayparts. Its a poor
>system at that. When I left Harvey at 8PM CDT, Michael Savage was on the
>air. At about 8:45 it went to dead air for about 5 minutes then into the
>opening theme for Rush Limbaugh. That potted out and ABC News came in with
>a special program. It sounded like a raw ABC News Network feed for the next
>2 hours.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 1:08 PM
>To: Sid Schweiger; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
>Subject: Re: My Research on Minot, ND
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>
>Outside the actual town, where is the nearest EAS
>originator station?
>
>
> > With the CC Minot cluster being almost entirely
> > voice-tracked or otherwise automated, no one was
> > around to activate EAS, and my understanding is that
> > they would not have received the alert message from
> > another station (i.e., setting the EAS boxes to
> > auto-relay wouldn't have solved the problem).
> >
> >
> >
> >
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