The audio on this station sucks so bad, I can't listen to it, regardless of the programming. If the product is SOUND, it should at least SOUND good. The processing sucks. The $500 Decade MS-100S coupled with an old CRL Systems Amigo FM fed by an old PC playing my AAC collection sitting in my den sounds like a McIntosh compared to the noise heard on 106.7 now.
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Last Day for Talk 106.7--May 31
- Thread starter jabba17
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Love your screen name.
I can't compare the sound of 106.7 to 92.3 because there is a 92.3 LPFM sandwiched in Murrayville north of Atlanta. However, I CAN compare 106.7 to KLove 105.1 (Clermont). Good Lord!
Try it if you can. There is a 40-sec. delay between the two, so listen to a spot or piece of music on 105.1; then flip to 106.7 and brace yourself.
(Also, doesn't a station lose something when it turns on stereo - that sounds like a drop in power (more spit)?)
Usually it's more hiss. You can check if that's it by flipping your receiver from stereo to mono and see if that fixes it.
Usually the spit is another cochannel station not quite being silenced by a not-strong-enough signal at the point of reception.
Trying to keep this discussion off the engineering board, FM stereo is a wider signal with the mono signal (L+R), 19 Khz stereo pilot and at 38Khz the (L-R) thus more (information) has to get thru for the receiver’s multiplexer circuit to work correctly. 106.7 use to play music so I doubt there is anything “wrong” at the transmitter site.
Just guessing:
106.7’s audio chain is still set up for talk which usually is less than 10 or 11Khz
The audio delay is from K-Love still going thru the WYAY control board with the “delay” to catch “bad language” still on.
They plan to use the existing setup for some time because I cannot find a “studio waver” on the FCC site under application search: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_list.pl
EMF most likely has some grace period to use the existing Cumulus studios.
Just guessing:
106.7’s audio chain is still set up for talk which usually is less than 10 or 11Khz
The audio delay is from K-Love still going thru the WYAY control board with the “delay” to catch “bad language” still on.
They plan to use the existing setup for some time because I cannot find a “studio waver” on the FCC site under application search: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_list.pl
EMF most likely has some grace period to use the existing Cumulus studios.
Thanks for the info, i have been out of the business too long to keep up with all the regulations. Is there an EAS test requirement for stations anymore? My last dealings with EAS we had to put the paper printout in a folder so they could be "logged". Between 9 am and 5 pm weekdays we had to have someone who could run a test in case the FCC showed up. That was or the first things I was always shown at every station I ever worked at. Except for the license test I never met a FFC person.
The weekly EAS test is still a requirement, along with required logging of monitored sources. Most EAS units are capable of emailing a weekly log for the chief operator to inspect and approve, or they can be accessed remotely to download logs or to remotely run a test / alert.
The differences far outnumber the similarities as far as WFME vs. K-Love are concerned.
Sorry, but I don't think you appreciate the differences in programming strategy, mission, and audience when comparing a 100% Contemporary Christian music station (which by design is programmed to sound mass appeal and cater to a heavily female skewing audience that might normally listen to secular Adult Contemporary radio) to a Christian preaching/traditional worship station.
What you're suggesting would be like saying Alt 105.7 is a good substitute for 97.1 The River - simply because both stations play some variation of Rock. Or that National Public Radio is a good substitute for 92.9 The Game because both happen to offer spoken word programming.
As far as 106.7's audio chain is concerned, EMF normally follows very good engineering standards with regard to full power signal maintenance. My guess is it will be fixed within 30 days.
Regardless, they are both owned by non-profits, and both will operate non-commercially. In that way, they're also similar to WQXR, WNYC or WBAI, even though the programming is completely different. I think I've been clear in this thread about how and why these stations are similar. When you look at any city, the advertising market is spread among the various media entities. WFME was not part of that structure, and neither is K-Love. So the number of slices in the advertising pie is returned to where it was when WFME was on the air.
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I see EMF turned on the RDS for 106.7 but the legal ID at 3am this morning was for the parent station KLOV Winchester Oregon the station that feeds a lot of the non commercial translators nationwide.
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