Wondering why I can't hear ANY calls, or even the word "Bellevue" in the Movin' TOH. I get that some stations bury the ID but it just seems weird that they will gladly air run-on legal disclaimers, but apparently consider calls to be an embarrassment!
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Huh?? WHAT did you say? (KQMV TOH)
- Thread starter LITTLEBOYBLUE
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I clearly heard "KQMV Bellevue, Seattle, Tacoma" at the beginning of that.
Maybe they're whispering the call letters a few minutes before or after the top of the hour. There is no requirement that the call be said precisely at :00. I've heard stations that will come out of a long commercial break with a quick whispered ID and a jingle at :50, then just run a TOH announcement like the one you heard 10 minutes later. The FCC is fine with that.
So my hearing is WAYYY worse than I'm already admitting.
Thanks for setting me straight! (still can't hear it....but I trust you!!!)
Hmmm, I'm going to have to get out the ear buds. I've listened a half dozen times and can't hear any of that.
It's literally the first four words in the clip. The female voice just before the male voice says "Movin 92-point-5".
"I'm not talking too fast. You're listening too slow."
---B. Mitchel Reed, KFWB, 1962
"I'm not talking too fast. You're listening too slow."
---B. Mitchel Reed, KFWB, 1962
im listening on cruddy prod room speakers and hear it clear as day
I'm getting the people who are having trouble hearing it are mostly older than me (im 40)
I've had dxers send me clips because theyre older.. and cant hear things i can
I'm getting the people who are having trouble hearing it are mostly older than me (im 40)
I've had dxers send me clips because theyre older.. and cant hear things i can
what ive had some older folks with hearing issues say to me, mainly the dxers if i recall correctly.. they cant hear the high frequency and shrill stuff
They'd have to be deaf above 4,000 Hz to not hear this. And if they are, they're missing one helluva lot more than a legal ID in Seattle.
I can hear what Lance hears..."KQMV, Bellevue-Seattle-Tacoma".
Now, here's what's trending on DraftKings: Will the discussion about legal ID's yet again morph into the association of the ID to the top of hour??
What's the over-under on VChimpanzee's not being sure if the clock in his car is accurate, but being certain that the ID is off by at least a minute?
Nothing wrong here as far as I can tell. Just the typical way of getting the call letters out of the way for a station that relies on a moniker for their branding. Pretty standard stuff these days in 2024.
She's not even that fast. That's pretty standard for call-letter burying.
"WVWA, Pound Ridge" is 50 years old, folks.
I stand by my assertion that whatever frequency range in which my wife speaks is the one that I absolutely cannot hear.
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