Still dead air this morning, with slight RF interference from KSFB (1260), on whose tower the KREV antenna is mounted.
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- Thread starter leethalweapon
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Trying to avoid being a "radio nerd vigilante" here (I love that term!), so I'll just note that KREV is still broadcasting dead air today (4/24). I suspect this may be the case for a while. KBEB from Sacramento came in this morning on 92.5 without any interference from KREV.
At this point, the FCC is the least of Ed's worries. I'm sure the FCC would love to fast-track any deal that gets Ed Stolz out of broadcasting quicker.
@Don Davis
Seemed to be operating the stations at end of December. Is he still around?
Seemed to be operating the stations at end of December. Is he still around?
I'm not defending him, but I'm not sure this kind of language does anything to help the situation.
Still, the analogy seems to fit. This person has cluttered the FCC procedure system and the bankruptcy court with filing after filing. Nobody has ever accused him of running a good radio station. It's as if his playground is the courtroom.
On the other hand, I am sure he thinks he is right and everyone else is not.
Ed Stolz has been engaging in sham lawsuits and running from banks and courts for over 3 decades. He's been jailed for his behavior. Admonished by countless courts. Google him. Nothing has kept him from continuing to be a pain in the butt for lots of people despite their best attempts to deal with him. Even if he loses EVERY station he owns, even if he gets drug into court a dozen more times, he will still find some way down the road to pipe up and steal the spotlight from the new operators and make it all about him. That's what I mean about cockroaches. They never give up, and they'll outlast everything.
As I said before, I'm not defending him. I'm not in the business of defending the indefensible. It takes years for these things to resolve - see the Contemporary Media case in Missouri and Indiana in the 1990s that dragged on and on. But that guy eventually was permanently sidelined. Stolz is on his way out. We just have to ensure that our popcorn supply will hold up.
@DavidEduardo
The fcc once used the phrase "procedural shenanigans" in a fairly recent letter to a pittsburgh, pa area church that owned/owns an AM.
I think "procedural shenanigans" applies to Ed "Pox On Radio" Stolz.
What are the audio spikes of?
Very brief blips of audio breaking through at irregular intervals, anywhere from 0.5 to 2 seconds in length.
Bizarre
Not really that bizzare, sounds like a Barix box or other internet appliance meant for broadcasting has had a failure of some sort, likely the internet feed went kapootski at one point and didnt retune/reconnect properly.
It went on for at least three hours: probably longer; I just first noticed it around 10:15 that morning and had one of the Tascam recorders handy, so I recorded it to see if I could detect any kind of pattern. It seems to have been entirely random.
Perhaps they were the automation system's attempt at sending an S.O.S. to rescue it from working for Ed...
I've returned home from a couple of weeks away and I find that KREV is still broadcasting not-quite-silent carrier - there's a slight hum. Nothing else.
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