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KGME 910 HD transmitter off
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Well, I’ve had an almost-comical experience over the past few days via email with iHeart. They seem absolutely certain I’m streaming the station over the internet. Telling them it’s 910 kHz AM hasn’t helped. LOL
Maybe they shut it off on purpose. Perhaps I’ll never know.
Maybe they were surprised that there is someone who will admit to listening to 910 these days!
Well, I’ve had an almost-comical experience over the past few days via email with iHeart. They seem absolutely certain I’m streaming the station over the internet. Telling them it’s 910 kHz AM hasn’t helped. LOL
Maybe they shut it off on purpose. Perhaps I’ll never know.
I’m surprised you even got a hold of somebody over there! I’ve tried e-mailing them before to only be met with crickets. They probably don’t even know what an AM radio is.
Paging @DrAkbar to the white courtesy phone!
Looks like some learnin' needs to be happenin' right about now!
Thanks for passing that along, watts. Perhaps AM HD is done in this area, for now. La Campesina shut off their (broken or malfunctioning) HD transmitter a few months ago, too. They were the only other local AM HD transmission I was able to receive.
The iHeart email person finally relented and said they’d tell engineering. Humorously, they suggested that in the mean time I could listen at a URL they provided. That URL plays an iHeart AM music station from Pennsylvania. LOL
The iHeart email person finally relented and said they’d tell engineering. Humorously, they suggested that in the mean time I could listen at a URL they provided. That URL plays an iHeart AM music station from Pennsylvania. LOL
Probably off for good. The radio companies are moving away from hybrid digital AM, and they're looking toward all-digital AM.
Given 910's fall from grace these past few years, probably no one noticed.
Paging @DrAkbar to the white courtesy phone!
Looks like some learnin' needs to be happenin' right about now!
Knowing some lucky I Hearters get to take a two week unpaid summer vacation this year, our best guess is running the HD unit costs them a few pennies more each month. Multiply that by the number of Ancient Modulation stations owned by I Heart, then you're talking real money!
AM HD equipment has a short life span and gets problematic as it get older. Example, going crazy and dumping the analog audio but the HD audio is fine. That got me once when the station said they were off the air and I turned on my AM HD radio and heard the station. It wasn't till I got in the car with just an analog radio that I heard the analog off. The second time it pulled that trick iHeart pulled the HD. AM transmitters will outlive the HD Importer/Exporter equipment by many years. The iHeart station that I was working for was not in the Phoenix market. I know of two stations that when the AM HD equipment died or got problematic they did not replace the equipment thy pulled the AM HD equipment and let the transmitter run in analog mode.
Hopefully the equipment being built for stations that go all digital AM will have a life span of an AM transmitter.
Hopefully the equipment being built for stations that go all digital AM will have a life span of an AM transmitter.
Could be as simple as they're running on their backup transmitter. Most stations, AM or FM, don't have HD on a backup.
As Steve mentioned, the original AM HD exciters are old and have spinning hard drives, and may no longer be supported by the manufacturer. Once their stock of main or spare exciters are exhausted, many of the original AM-HD stations have chosen to give up.
As Steve mentioned, the original AM HD exciters are old and have spinning hard drives, and may no longer be supported by the manufacturer. Once their stock of main or spare exciters are exhausted, many of the original AM-HD stations have chosen to give up.
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