Boob Toob pick for Sunday: Americana Music Awards

Don’t forget to tune in on Sunday, March 20 at 7pm CT when the 2021 Americana Honors & Awards airs on Circle TV.
Catch must-see performances by your favorites, including Artist of the Year Brandi Carlile, Emerging Act of the Year Charley Crockett, Lifetime Achievement for Performance honoree Keb’ Mo’, Trailblazer Award honoree The Mavericks and many more.

How to Tune In: Circle is available across the United States on many cable providers’ channel line-ups or you can use your TV’s digital antenna. Circle is also available on many streaming platforms including Peacock, the Roku Channel, XUMO and more. Check your local listings and discover more streaming options here.

No Bend yet…

So sorry to report our “new” Bend booster died only a few days after going on. Repairs expected next week, as soon as the new roll of duct tape and box of paper clips get here.

2 years in the works: Bend, Oregon now ankle deep in Jive

Old men & old tech serve up the ol’ Jive in Bend:

Here our trusty 70-something Tower Monkey Dan Mooney installs the microwave transmit antenna last November. This shoots Jive audio from it’s transmit location (Grizzly Mountain outside Madras, OR) about 20miles to our booster location in Bend.

Here our trusty 70-something ‘Cheaph Engineer’ Tom Werner dusts off a 40-year old piece of donated gear and tunes, tweaks & cajoles it into service last Monday to serve up Jiveradio in downtown Bend for the first time ever!

Here Tom tries to nap, but forgot his rug.

Also much thanks to Todd Urick in Sacto for doing the engineering for us to get the license, Don Mussell in Hawaii for doing all the frequency coordination work, Cliff Peck for donating the antenna and helping with tower space, and Yellowknife Wireless for hosting not only our internet service at Grizzly since 2018, but now also hosting our booster location in Bend. They are a great small local company helping make Jiveradio for central Oregon happen!

The Gorge will be Jive silent for (at least) another week

So sorry to report that our KJYV (The Dalles/Hood River) outage will be another week of static. The ice has melted, the site is accessible and replacement parts are now at the site but the (old & used) replacement transmitter requires a re-wiring of the electrical panel. Our tech can’t make it back until Monday March 7, so we wait, hope and keep our fingers crossed.

Such is the state of ‘Cheers & Lowbucks Radio” !