107.1/930 checks out of Hotel California for oldies

[golden eagles97]

So far, it sounds like ‘60s & ‘70s R&B oldies. I’ve heard artists like the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Four Tops, Chuck Berry and Barry White. I’ve not heard a name for the station.

 

[Pat3]

But if you listen for very long, you will hear the same songs being played over and over. It sounds like they took a handfull of Motowns' greatest hits and hit "shuffle". "It's a man's World" is repeated every hour. Also, they are only playing one channel of the audio as expected. WIIN has been doing that for years and still is on AM. I heard BB King the other day with "Lucille" missing. Nothing sounds worse than wide seperation oldies with half the band missing. I don't know what it takes to stop stations from doing this. I'm not an engineer and I don't know how they wire this stuff, but even I could figure out how to wire both the left and right outputs of some playback equipment to the left and right inputs of the broadcasting equipment. If there is only a single mono input, a mixer of some sort or a simple "Y" adapter can fix it. Is this done on purpose? or is it just incompetence. I can't figure out how a broadcaster, especially a trained engineer can let this stuff go on literally for years without fixing it. Unless it's to solve some phasing problems when playing a monophonic analog tape, It makes no sense to do this when playing modern day recordings. Sounds like crap.

 

[danfling]

Barry White and Chuck Berry never recorded for Motown, so it's not their greatest hits.

 

[Pat3]

They are currently playing all christmas music. As usual they are in mono with one channel of the audio missing. Older songs with wide seperation are unlistenable with instruments or vocals missing