The Winners News Network (AM-1510) has been granted the official call letters of KLLB by the Federal Communications Commission.
With a format of "all motivation" programming KLLB/Winners News Network (WNN) presents the world's most successful authors and speakers. "Club 1510" regularly broadcasts presentations from Zig Zigler, Norman Vincent Peale, Earl Nightengale and other experts. Instead of playing hit records, the station plays hit ideas.Special daily features include "sales meeting of the morning" (each weekday at 8:07 a.m.); an hourly energizer; features on health and dieting; a series on "how to raise positive kids in a negative world"; and regular programs on the subject of "women in the business world."
Motivation breakfast meetings for listeners are organized and conducted by Coz Green, a Salt Lake seminar leader and KLLB's morning personality.
Much of KLLB's programming is delivered by satellite to its Midvale studios. When this Salt Lake motivation station started up about one year ago, it was the first "motivation" radio station west of the Mississippi. Now there is a similar station in Sacramento, as well some other large cities such as as Boston and Tulsa.
WNN used the call letters of the station's previous owner, KZZI, until receiving its KLLB letters on Feb. 15.
- KSL Radio's Chris Tunis has been named Utah Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
Tunis has previously won this award four times. He has been nominated for it during seven of his eight years at KSL.
"This just reaffirms something we have known about Chris all along," said Rod Arquette, KSL's news and programming director. "He is one of the best, if not the best, radio sportscasters in the state."
Tunis, "the sports authority" on KSL, is a graduate in radio and TV broadcasting from San Deigo State. He started working in Salt Lake at KWMS in 1981 and was hired by KSL in the fall of 1982.
Tunis credits much of his success to his producer, Trina Eyring, and also to the sports interns who worked with him in 1989.
- MORE ON KOOL - Utah's newest prospective radio station, KQOL (alian "Kool" FM-106.5), has run into some legal delays with the FCC and will not hit the airwaves on Feb. 22 as previously announced.
The station, which will feature a "hybrid contemporary country music format" (alian "contemporary country crossover"), has March 15 as its new target sign-on date, according to Steve Evans, general manager.
Evans also wants to clarify that Street Stryder (a former KBER radio morning personality now living in New York) is KQOL's sole licensee. Evans stressed that he is operating under a management contract by the licensee.
KQOL has purchased KBER's original frequency (FM-106.5), since KBER bought FM-101.1 from the old KDAB.
- KLCY (FM-94.1) - Cherie Lyman of Escalante was the station's "$5,000 Trial" winner last week. She was the 94th caller when KLCY played "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits.
The station will play the song again before Feb. 23 and give away another $5,000.
- KALL (AM-910) - Here's the schedule for the "How-To Shows with John Berg" on Saturday, Feb. 17.
- On the "Grow-It" show (7 a.m.-9 a.m.), "Pruning Time Along the Wasatch" will be discussed by co-host Ron Walser, associate professor of horticulture and agronomy at Brigham Young University. The guest will be Dick Hildreth, director of Red Butte Gardens and the State Aboretum at the University of Utah.
- "Hometalk" (9 a.m.-10 a.m.) will answer "Is the Cold Weather Numbing Your Plumbing?" The guest will be Gordon Godfrey, a plumbing specialist from Salt Lake City.
- "The Auto-Medic Show" (10 a.m.-11 a.m.) will feature guests Neal Grover and Chuck Spainhower, automotive technicians from Salt Lake Community College, talking about "New Car Bodies for the '90s."
- KALL will air the Utah at New Mexico basketball game Saturday, Feb. 17, at 3:05 p.m.
- LEFT OUT - KEYY (AM-1450) radio has been inadvertently left out of the readio station guide listing lately. For the record, this Utah County station has a contemporary Christian format.
- KBCK (FM-105.7) - Listeners who live in the Utah County might take note that this local station has apparently switched from religious programming to an "oldies" country music format. It's signal probably doesn't reach northward into Salt Lake County very well.
- KSL (AM-1160) will air the BYU at UTEP basketball game Saturday, Feb. 17, at 9 p.m.
Other KSL programming highlights for next week:
Tuesday, Feb. 20:
1:30 p.m. - Authors of the "Love Hunger" book will discuss "Are You Addicted to Food?"
Wednesday, Feb. 21:
1:30 p.m. - "Nuclear Resistors," Diana Lee Hirschi and Marvin Hamilton, who protested the Trident II Missiles last year at Hercules, will tell their story.
Thursday, Feb. 22:
10:06 a.m. - Mary Anthony from the Rice Council will discuss rice's health benefits.
Friday, Feb. 23:
10:06 a.m. - Mike Christensen, vice president of Prudential, will be the guest on "Dollars and Sense."