Somehow, I seem to be the one who always notices the littlest of things in radio broadcasts. LOL! Earlier today as I was out on a luncheon with family and friends at my local Cici's Pizza, I noticed that 103.7 KVIL (which is played through the restaurant's speaker system) is a pitch higher like on KHKS 106.1 Kiss FM. At first, I thought my hearing's a bit off, but moments ago when I listened on my radio, I confirmed that it's a pitch higher (except during the Delilah broadcasts). Not that I have a problem with it, it's just unusual that an AC station like KVIL would do that. Wait, I keep forgetting, it's "The NEW Sound" of KVIL. My guess is they're probably adding one more song to the playlist or extending the length of commercial breaks.
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103.7 KVIL is Now a Pitch Higher
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They should leave all their stations at normal speeds. LOL I always can notice, not that I won't listen but it does sound funny.
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With modern compression technology, there's no need to "speed up the tape" anymore. Is KVIL still using analog?
I recall "hyped" AM Radio.. freaked me out when I heard Chicago live in 1969 and thinking damn.. they are playing slow! 
Yup, guilty as charged. First it was the optional "puck" for the old Russco "Rumble-master" turntables on the old AM Top-40
Then the "FM" days of goosing them up between 2% and 5% with the old Technics SP-15.
The optional "puck" on the Russco turntables would make Midnight Train to Georgia sound like it was sung by the Chipmunks instead of the Pips..
OF course these days you run the WAV through Adobe and use the time compression plug-in and skip the pitch change problems...
It's worth noting that back in the old days (ie, the sixties and seventies), it wasn't just radio stations that had turntables that ran fast.
My recollection (at least in the seventies) is that a lot of cheap record players ran a couple percent fast. The reason for this was that the speed of these players wasn't all that accurate or consistent, and the manufacturers determined that playing a record slightly fast was less annoying than having it run slow -- so they made these turntables fast enough to ensure that they would never sound slow and draggy.
Better quality (ie, component) audio gear was generally pretty accurate on speed, at least by the late seventies, so this was a problem only with low end equipment.
My recollection (at least in the seventies) is that a lot of cheap record players ran a couple percent fast. The reason for this was that the speed of these players wasn't all that accurate or consistent, and the manufacturers determined that playing a record slightly fast was less annoying than having it run slow -- so they made these turntables fast enough to ensure that they would never sound slow and draggy.
Better quality (ie, component) audio gear was generally pretty accurate on speed, at least by the late seventies, so this was a problem only with low end equipment.
KVIL seriously needs to update their turntables!!!
What turntables???
You know... the ones making them "a pitch higher!"
And in the mid-70's we had that "box" made by someone in Odessa or Wichita Falls or Abilene or the likes that changed the 60 cycle AC to a different rate to speed up the hysterisis/synchronous motors in those Russco and QRK turntables.
KVIL was using AudioVault in the late 90s...not sure what they have now
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