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Changes at WNSH 94.7

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According to AllAccess, New York's Country will become less local.
Midday personality Katie Neal's show will be broadcast on all of the Entercom country stations, apparently starting on Monday.
And all Entercom country stations will carry an evening show hosted by the afternoon personalities at their WYCD, in Detroit.
As with other Entercom country FM's, the morning and afternoon programming will remain local. And the article indicates that music during all of the dayparts will remain locally selected.

From AllAccess: https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/...com-s-personnel-changes-and-programming-reali
 
Similar changes at Alt 92.3. Their morning show will be carried in four other cities, and the night show will be carried on all Entercom Alt stations. Nobody was let go from either station, and in fact Alt rehired Chris Booker for afternoon drive.

So 94.7 will be as it was in the Cumulus days, except the talent will be from within Entercom.
 
TheBigA said:
Nobody was let go from either station

So 94.7 will be as it was in the Cumulus days, except the talent will be from within Entercom.
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Hopefully, current evening host Mike Allan will still be with WNSH, in some capacity.
When WNSH was owned by Cumulus, the same morning and evening show was broadcast across multiple stations. Now it will be the afternoon and evening programs.
 
With rivals IHeart and Cumulus carrying national shows for years on their stations, it was probably inevitable Entercom would eventually follow suit.
I guess Katie Neal's midday show will now need to drop most mentions of doings in New York.
 
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andreajesus said:
and the next word will be.... VOICETRACKING!
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yeah and? if you think some of the NY stations dont do this already during the day youre fooling yourself
 
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with voice tracking. As long as the content is relevant and entertaining, why should one care whether it’s “live and local” or not?

Maybe screaming “VOICETRACKING” is some sort of dog whistle for something? I’m not sure what her point is. Very odd.
 
luperm said:
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with voice tracking. As long as the content is relevant and entertaining, why should one care whether it’s “live and local” or not?

Maybe screaming “VOICETRACKING” is some sort of dog whistle for something? I’m not sure what her point is. Very odd.
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There's been "pre-recorded" content on radio for almost as long as radio has existed. Now it's called voicetracking. Same thing, different technology and name.
 
RadioGuy1864 said:
There's been "pre-recorded" content on radio for almost as long as radio has existed. Now it's called voicetracking. Same thing, different technology and name.
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The radio host who invented pre-recorded content was Bing Crosby. He hosted a radio show on NBC and didn't want to do a second live show for the west coast. So they recorded his east coast show on a transcription disc and played it back for the west coast. Crosby then invested in the Ampex Corporation, the maker of tape recorders.

Radio programming was done on reel to reel tape between the 40s and 70s. In the 80s, radio distribution began on satellite. In the early 90s, the voicetracking system was created using digital recording. That's where we are now.

If you listen to Lite FM, they run Delilah at nights. The system you hear in her show is what you'll hear on Entercom stations. The host is national, the music is local.
 
Does anyone know when they will be using the new transmitter? Signal is lacking in Eastern Nassau County and the coverage map looks better for Nassau and Western Suffolk
 
TheBigA said:
The radio host who invented pre-recorded content was Bing Crosby. He hosted a radio show on NBC and didn't want to do a second live show for the west coast. So they recorded his east coast sho.
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Even before that, many stations bought "transcription services" where the got on oversized 78 rpm disks programs complete with music, an announcer or MC and an open, close and commercial break. There were also "talk" shows which were either informational or entertainment.

Of course, the biggest impediment to recorded music shows was Petrillo and his musician union.
 
Electrical Transcription (ET) discs for radio broadcast were 16 inches in diameter and played at 33⅓ RPM. Bing's innovation of using magnetic tape was that it could be recorded and played back the same day, rather than waiting for records to get pressed, and the quality was good enough that it sounded identical to a live broadcast.
 
kevtronics said:
Bing's innovation of using magnetic tape was that it could be recorded and played back the same day, rather than waiting for records to get pressed, and the quality was good enough that it sounded identical to a live broadcast.
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Seems to me the original transcriptions were recorded direct to disc, so no need to get pressed unless they needed to be duplicated.
 
kevtronics said:
Electrical Transcription (ET) discs for radio broadcast were 16 inches in diameter and played at 33⅓ RPM. Bing's innovation of using magnetic tape was that it could be recorded and played back the same day, rather than waiting for records to get pressed, and the quality was good enough that it sounded identical to a live broadcast.
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In the period where Bing Crosby pioneered with recording tape (originally with one of the captured German tape recording devices), transcriptions were not done at 33 1/3 RPM. They were 78 RPM. The 33 1/3 RPM format was not introduced until mid 1948, and was not very common for quite a few years as nobody had home devices to play them.

ETs did not have to get pressed. They were recorded directly to disk, and immediately playable in the same format. But, unless several / many ETs were recorded at the same time, they could not be immediately duplicated.

Of course, the original ET could be used in reverse molding to create a stamper via galvanoplasty which could be used to press many copies.

Here is a study of the response of different disk configurations, from 45's to 78's.

https://www.diamondcut.com/vforum/f...sponse?t=2152&highlight=theoretical+bandwidth

Keep in mind that in the era of 78's, they had just as good response as AM radio did.
 
Country Aircheck reports that WNSH evening host Mike Allan has departed:

WNSH/New York night host Mike Allan, who rejoined the station in January and previously served as multi-format APD for Hot AC WPLJ, Urban AC WNBM and WNSH.
 
While 33 rpm LP microgroove disks were indeed released to consumers only in 1948, the 16" transcription discs used in professional radio applications were at 33 rpm as early as the 1930s. I have some in my collection. They were not microgroove - they typically used the same larger needle and grooves as the 78s of the era, which is why you still only got 15 minutes at moast to a side. (At 78, you'd get perhaps 6 or 7 minutes on one side of a 16" disc.)
 
djl said:
Does anyone know when they will be using the new transmitter? Signal is lacking in Eastern Nassau County and the coverage map looks better for Nassau and Western Suffolk
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Good question
 
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