So, 1320 is now gone

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- 02/27/2017 at 6:56 PM #29070
  
  SkinyUte
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  They apparently just closed up shop this afternoon and disappeared. No signal, and their website redirects to the main Cumulus Media site. Crazy. They weren’t always good, but I did like having more options rather than less.
  
  Also, weren’t they the radio home of the Jazz? I don’t pay any attention to the NBA, so maybe I’m wrong.
- 02/27/2017 at 7:04 PM #29073
  
  PorterRockwell
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  1280 is the home of the jazz, 1280 and 1320 both owned by LHM I believe?
  - 02/28/2017 at 9:20 AM #29122
    
    utefansince79
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    Are Jazz still on an AM station? Thought they were just on 97.5 FM now (which is a rather weak station that gets lots of static when trying to listen to them in my car driving around the Salt Lake Valley).
- 02/27/2017 at 8:04 PM #29083
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  Tony (admin)
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  I never listened to it. Then again the only radio I listen to is Utah football/basketball pre and post-game.
- 02/27/2017 at 8:15 PM #29087
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  PlainsUte
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- 02/28/2017 at 9:34 AM #29124
  
  mokus
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  Their facebook and twitter pages are gone too. Its like they messed with the mob and left town with no traces.
- 02/28/2017 at 9:57 AM #29125
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  kazute
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  I heard a rumor that they would be going off air at 3:00 pm yesterday. I was curious about how that would go down. At about 2:54 I tuned in. It was mostly business as usual with some national show and then a ton of ads. Including ads for other 1320 shows. About 3:02, after about 3 ads in a row, it just shut off. That was it.
  
  Got to get those last few ads in.
  
  I never really listened to 1320, but I only listen to sports radio at peak times during the year. Signing Day. Spring camp. Fall camp. Newsworthy events pending. Occasionially other times, if driving in my car. The rest of the year, it just seems like they are all trying to kill dead air time.
  - 02/28/2017 at 12:55 PM #29143
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    utefansince79
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    Back a long long time ago, 1320 was KCPX, a top-40 music channel. Home of the Lynn Lehmann show.
    
    Our Junior High Coach won the Lynn Lehmann Lemon award one time after he killed a seagull while taking practice golf swings on the athletic fields. (Proudly displayed it on the wall in his office).
- 02/28/2017 at 4:26 PM #29157
  
  Ute1998
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  I will miss the Bob and Tom show in the morning…didn’t listen to anything else on that station.
  - 02/28/2017 at 7:23 PM #29176
    
    SkinyUte
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    I will miss the Bob and Tom show in the morning…didn’t listen to anything else on that station.
    
    Maybe I just caught them on bad days, but the half dozen times I tried listening to them, it was just embarrassingly bad. Outside of being juvenile and entirely unfunny, their habit of laughing uproariously at every. single. comment was annoying as hell.
- 02/28/2017 at 5:52 PM #29166
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  RedUte
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  That’s actually a bummer. Enjoyed listening to Gunther in the aftenoons on iheart here in Seattle. Need to find another SLC channel to stream. Any suggestions?
- 03/04/2017 at 12:09 PM #29582
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  61Shasta
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  [Edited to correct land size and pricing update]
  
  In the end it wasn’t ratings that killed KFAN, it was dirt. A lot of dirt sitting in a prime spot in Murray.
  
  Quick AM radio 101. AM antennas don’t just have the tower like FM stations do. In order to complete the AM phasing, there has to be a grounding system called radials. A radial is a strand of copper wire. Each tower typically has 120 radials surrounding it with a length of at least 1/2 the height of the tower. Dry ground around the tower acts as a resistor so AM stations normally build their towers near water. As in riverfront property. In addition, because electrocution is possible if someone is standing on a radial and makes contact with the tower the FCC mandates buffer zones around the towers. Needless to say this takes up a lot of dirt.
  
  According to Salt Lake County’s plat map, KFAN’s transmitter site was 25 acres.
  
  This is the official view from Salt Lake County’s plat map.
  
  Enter real estate developer. Said real estate developer goes to Cumulus Media and says, “Dear Cumulus, we will give you (what I’ve heard from 3 people in local media) $2,600,000 for the transmitter site and we’ll pay to demolish the tower and facilities.” KFNZ’s gross revenue had been running about $13-15,000 a month. No brainer, Cumulus takes the deal so fast the air whistles.
  
  Look for other AM stations to suffer the same fate.
- 03/04/2017 at 12:57 PM #29591
  
  SkinyUte
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  Thanks for the insight Shasta. Good to know that everyone wasn’t suddenly abducted by aliens at 3:00 on a random February Tuesday.
  - 03/05/2017 at 10:18 PM #29801
    
    61Shasta
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    While I did consider that for a moment and it would have been way cool to talk about if it really happened; I thought that the people that thought that Gunther and Ben were run and KFAN closed for low ratings might want to know what really happened.
    
    Apparently a mistake. I’m still getting used to the tenor of this new board. Not sure who are the jokers and the uber-serious of the utehub world.
    - 03/06/2017 at 9:41 AM #29825
      
      bopahull
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      (HINT) We’re all Bozos on this bus.
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