KPLS’s audio today, Thu Apr 16th at 549pm local time is awful.
I have no idea if it’s network audio, that the station is picking programming via an internet feed or there’s an internet feed to the transmitter, but….
… the station sounds like it’s a low bit rate stream constantly skipping and buffering. the audio is “listenable” but it’s full of digital gurgles, like a stream that’s about to fail and drop but catches up with itself… carries on, reinsert and repeat.
I noticed that around 5 pm, lots of skipping. The TOH ID was for both the AM and the Strasburg FM (plus the Boulder translator) so it’s all coming from the same source. I can only get the AM at my location; the FM is covered up by the KBNO(AM) Denver translator.