Sound Of The Sabbath on KNAK

[commanderlumpy]

Hello folks. I was wondering what you all though of Sounds Of The Sabbath on KNAK? I think it is original. This is because they simel cast with BYU Radio. Although, I would like to see KNAK cary more Firesides, instead of music. But KNAK would never get away with something like this in Salt Lake City. That is if they were talk, and then carryed BYU Radio on Sundays. Do you remember when they use to symel with Kzion?

[JamesAnderson]

Yes, I was quoted on the press release that announced the KZION.com partnership with KNAK. It lasted for more than a year then they started carrying the byuradio.org feed, which they had been doing before when BYURadio was the Bonneville International LDS Radio Network. BYU cleaned up all the problems with the Bonneville feed, by the way. I'll share a hilarious story involving Bonneville LDS Radio.

They ran the 10pm KSL news. Well, one night KSL decided to end the news with a live shot from a Fleetwood Mac concert. The band was playing 'The Chain'. It has the line that says 'D*** the darkness, d*** the light...'.

Well I had just gone into another room where I had the sideband radio that had it on, had left it on from earlier that night for some reason. I heard two d***s from the aforementioned line in the song, then they cut to a hymn. Told the current manager of BYURadio the story and he had a real laugh about that one.

As far as it goes with Salt Lake, I think we had for a time KMGR did some stuff Sunday only until John Hair got to program it full time, when they were trying to ditch the business stuff. That only lasted for a very short transition time so it may not count as far as what you are saying. KMGR was LDS for a couple of years after that.

KOAL 750 Price also did a Sunday show, haven't been able to pick them up well lately down here so I am not sure if it's still going, they went back to their talk programs at 5pm I believe while they did a locally-programmed Sunday show.

The other station that runs BYURadio is KWBR-LP 105.7 Saint George, they run it 24/7.

[UnderTheRadar]

Glad to hear that someone remembers my efforts for the LDS format on Salt Lake Radio. I started working at KSRR in Provo in 1988 when they were all LDS. Left there in 2001 for an adventure in Montana (Glacier Park). In 1993, KSRR was simulcasting on KMGR 1230, and because the cost to lease KMGR's airwaves became to excessive for KSRR, I stepped in and offered to program KMGR 1230, which lasted just under one year. Ruben Rodriguez was the sales manager/manager, and I was program director/sole disc jockey. We never could make the budget, as advertisers felt that the format was only viable for Sundays, and that no one would listen to LDS music during the week. We had decent but small ratings that proved otherwise. In 1998, I decided to take matters into my own hands and approached KOSY 106.5 after they had recently switched to Adult Contemporary and the rest is history. I started "Sounds of the Sabbath," on the third Sunday in June in 1998, and now approaching seven years, it is still on the air. Winner of two Pearl Awards for Best Radio Show, I hosted until late 2000, when I relocated to the Pacific Northwest to continue working in television and radio, in Portland and the Tri-Cities. My friends, Wanda Lindstrom and Steven Kapp Perry continued the show; and now John Boswell and Joan Peterson keep it coming to you each weekend. It was a labor of love, as the pay was next to nothing; but the rewards were tangible from so many who said that the music and the interviews with artists each week were such an uplifting part of their lives. Even got a letter from a gentleman in Utah State Prison who stated, "It was like a hot fudge sundae on a lazy summer afternoon to my soul." I am grateful other stations in Utah have picked up the bandwagon as well, I approached FM 100 about a show in 2002, and they started their own shortly thereafter.

[UnderTheRadar]

My bad. I left KSRR in 1991, not 2001. That makes the previous narrative more understandable.