104.7 - forgot the calls - has some dead air over nights. I like to listen to coast to coast on my Ross reciver - with a full size radio shack fm antenna - I'm 70 miles from Pittsburgh.
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104.7 FM - dead air
- Thread starter Clarionwill
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FreddyE1977
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Clarionwill said:
Dead air instead of Coast to Coast? ???
Probably just the Mother Ship jamming the signal again.
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MsMusicRadio
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That just adds to the dead air from 12-3PM daily.
This is nothing new. It's been going on for years now. I've heard dead air, the wrong program playing and even two programs playing at once.
If you like this quaility programming you can thank the FCC for deconsolidation that allows a handful of large corporations to own everything to the point where they simply don't care about the quaility of product that they are airing because thay make money no matter what.
FCC = Useless bunch of @#$#@#%$#!
If you like this quaility programming you can thank the FCC for deconsolidation that allows a handful of large corporations to own everything to the point where they simply don't care about the quaility of product that they are airing because thay make money no matter what.
FCC = Useless bunch of @#$#@#%$#!
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MsMusicRadio
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To be fair, conservative talk radio and old Top 40 have things in common.
has nothing to do with politics
1) Conservative talkers used to be Top 40 DJ's like Rush and Beck
2) Both formats regenerated AM radio.
3) Both use hyper promotions and loud ID's.
4) WABC
5) AM Top 40 was apolitical by mandate, so politics was not an issue.
5) Bet Ted Nugent like both .
has nothing to do with politics
1) Conservative talkers used to be Top 40 DJ's like Rush and Beck
2) Both formats regenerated AM radio.
3) Both use hyper promotions and loud ID's.
4) WABC
5) AM Top 40 was apolitical by mandate, so politics was not an issue.
5) Bet Ted Nugent like both .
pman44 said:I'm not sure about the dead air but there's an awful lot of hot air there, especially in morning drive. Maybe they have to shut down to vent out all of the gas?
Apparently there is enough hot air to generate a #1 ratings in morning drive, sometimes life's a bitch ain't it?
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MsMusicRadio
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Quinn was a great on KQV
MsMusicRadio said:
I remember how almost everyone I knew loved to make fun of Jim Quinn when he was on KQV. Most of us thought he was a pompous jerk, who thought he knew what was going on but didn't. We listened to KQV because it was the only rock-and-roll station we could pick up with semi-decent reception while driving around, but we listened in spite of Jim Quinn, not because of him.
I'm reminded of the scene in the movie "A Hard Day's Night" when the suit is talking to George Harrison about the girl TV host the suit thought was hot stuff, and how shocked he was when Harrison said she was a drag who got most things wrong, and they only watched her to say rude things at the telly. Quinn (and Brinkman, and Chedwick, and most of the rest of them) were the real-life equivalents of that British TV host. A handful of radio geeks thought they were great, the same as a handful of people think that Pia Zadora could act, or that Fabian Forte could sing, or that Paris Hilton isn't just a rich bimbo.
Does Coast to Coast fill it's local breaks? If I remember correctly the show clock, there are two breaks an hour for the locals, top and bottom of the hour but both are very long (at least 5 minutes each) but I am not sure if the network fills those breaks if the locals don't sell them. If not and if 104.7 either doesn't fill them, or if they have a computer glitch with the break not firing (almost assuredly they wouldn't be manning the booth at those hours with a live body) that would be a potential reason for the station to go to dead air.
Specifically they fill them with show promos and website plugs. All of Coast's local breaks are hard timed so there's no need to rely on cues.
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