I have a whole bunch of Joy 104.9 tapes that I recorded. I do remember Willie Mae McIver ran the station.
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iHeart Buys Two in D/FW...
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I couldn't even pick it up in my car last night, and I was sitting right in front of my house.
Listening to 1630 right now. Its not bad at all. They do local traffic and weather. I don't know how they are making it sound as local as possible.
I'm listening to it right now, and I was thinking the exact same thing. By the way, I was able to pick up 95.3 in my car right past Hurst. It was shaky by the time I made it to Bedford, so I tuned to 1630 and it was loud and clear.
Total Traffic is used for the traffic, usually a TV partner does the weather
I've been off the board for a while, so I only heard about this on Saturday when I was out with my wife and daughter and was checking in on my station (KHYI) which I normally can pick up in Keller...We were covered up completely with BIN. They covered us all day Sunday too. Driving in to the station yesterday morning, they were interfering with our signal all the way our studio at 635 & Greenville. Things were back to normal for KHYI as of 6pm last night. I don't know if it was them, us, or a combo of both, but it was a harrowing few days this past week.
Welcome to FM radio in the 2020's, where translators can step all over everything. If you are outside your station's 60 dBu contour you can expect interference from a translator.
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Wasn't it the 1920's where AM radio was unregulated, so lots of interference happened?
LOL BIN is owned by iHeartMedia, so you'd expect them to follow the FCC rules. Maybe your transmitter at KHYI just had an outage.
LOL BIN is owned by iHeartMedia, so you'd expect them to follow the FCC rules. Maybe your transmitter at KHYI just had an outage.
Radio was regulated from very early years by the HTML Bureau of Navigation (and later the Radio Division), Department of Commerce from 1915, and then the Federal Radio Commission starting in 1927 and the FCC about 6 years later.
So the answer is "No, it wasn't".
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The root of the problem is César Antonio Guel,Hector Guevara and the "Saul Goodman" of the FCC Dan J. Alpert.
From Erik Barnouw's "History of Broadcasting in the United States" trilogy, my recollection is that the regulation was pretty limited for a period prior to the FRC, resulting in pretty massive amounts of interference between stations on the AM broadcast band of the time. So while it was regulated, that regulation was not remotely adequate.
The 95.3 translator is currently silent.
95.3, 970, and 1630 are all BIN.
Why is it duplicated on both AMs? The logo promotes both 970/1630AM, so it doesn't look like it's just a "holding pattern" until one of the frequencies is moved onto something else. Why pay to broadcast the same programming on two AMs in the same area?
From looking at the coverage map, I'm assuming it's because 1630 covers most of the Dallas side while 970 covers most of the Ft. Worth side.
Neither signal has a "listenable" strength in the "other side" of the market. It takes around 10 mV/m or more to overcome urban noise today, and those two signals complement each other and do not duplicate significantly, particularly at night .
I think that is mostly true, but really, both of them are a lot better on the FTW side. 970 is a total dog in Dallas and 1630 is okay only during the day.
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