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107.9 sound quality again

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chrisalcorn

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I called the station to mention how poorly they were sounding lately and was promptly more or less dissed by the "engineer". Would it have been so hard for him to go to his car, turn over to what the station sounds like and DO SOMETHING. I am not dreaming this stuff up, they sound bad. When WGZB, WIZF, WUBT play the same song. it sounds much cleaner. This is how I made my determination that something is wrong with THEIR audio and not the adjustments on MY radio. The highs are flat, the bass is muddy and the station sounds way over-modulated. What more can I do to express how bad they sound. No wonder they are losing ground in the latest Arbs. They have a good product, but have a bad delivery!!!
 
Maybe......

1. Fixing it costs money, and his company doesn't want to spend any.
2. The PD is Lord of the Processing. And he loves it.
3. The GM is Lord of the Processing. And he loves it.

In other words, it may be entirely out of the engineer's hands. (Or "engineer" as you disparagingly referred to him)

It's really not up to a listener to call the station and request a processing change.
 
greg.hahn said:
Maybe......

1. Fixing it costs money, and his company doesn't want to spend any.
2. The PD is Lord of the Processing. And he loves it.
3. The GM is Lord of the Processing. And he loves it.

In other words, it may be entirely out of the engineer's hands. (Or "engineer" as you disparagingly referred to him)

It's really not up to a listener to call the station and request a processing change.
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The company has a long heritage of overmodulation. In the early 90's we tune in 96.9 on the mod monitor and watch the peak light flash at 150 percent. Nolan Kenner used to call the FCC constantly because they clobbered his Somerset FM at 97.1 on the northern edge of his service area.

The last time I was in Lexington, 107.9's processing was as it was being reported, loud and bass heavy. My factory car radio has a wide band AM tuner and 1580 and their old school format sounded nice and tight. I always love it when an AM is able to sound better than an FM ;)
 
You are right, 1580 does sound better than 107.9. I just don't get it though. Why put out a product that is OBVIOUSLY distorted? Wouldn't that cause folks to tune to another station that sounds accurate. I wasn't trying to tell this "dude" what to do but giving him an honest assessment of the sound. I was listening this morning to Gospel Traxx and it sounded awful to me. OH WELL!!
 
chrisalcorn said:
You are right, 1580 does sound better than 107.9. I just don't get it though. Why put out a product that is OBVIOUSLY distorted? Wouldn't that cause folks to tune to another station that sounds accurate. I wasn't trying to tell this "dude" what to do but giving him an honest assessment of the sound. I was listening this morning to Gospel Traxx and it sounded awful to me. OH WELL!!
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My point was maybe it sounded awful to him too, but he's not allowed to do anything about it. This stuff almost always lies on the management, not on the engineer. If it was the engineer's fault and management wasn't happy, wouldn't they either make him fix it or get rid of him? But if the management IS happy with it, what's the engineer going to do? Change it to something his boss doesn't like?

Radio station owners do a lot of things that people disagree with, and many of them are laughing all the way to the bank.
 
Speaking of 107.9, does anybody know the status of the move of their antenna from US 460 near Midway to US 60 near Versailles? From where I am, I probably won't be able to tell the difference. They've had the CP a long time; I would think they're either finished or have given up.
 
I was wondering the same thing as WWAG is hard on WBTF at my location. I"ve even noticed that "problem" with WBTF when going out towards Richmond.
 
chrisalcorn said:
I called the station to mention how poorly they were sounding lately and was promptly more or less dissed by the "engineer".
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Chris, - Are you the same person that used to call Tony Gray to gripe about the Beat's audio back in the Blue Chip ownership days?
 
No, Brian that wasn't me. I thought that they had a good sound back then. I did e-mail this "lady" one time there and she told me if I didn't like what she was playing then don't listen. Such a nice person she was.
 
chrisalcorn said:
No, Brian that wasn't me. I thought that they had a good sound back then. I did e-mail this "lady" one time there and she told me if I didn't like what she was playing then don't listen. Such a nice person she was.
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Was that L. Boogie?
 
It could have been L since I don't remember any other females on 107.9. She could have just changed her name. Do you know of the status on the CP? WWAG was crushing WBTF again this morning. Amid the sound quality and lack of signal, it's getting hard to keep listening in the car anymore. It could be something to with the atmosphere as well since the whole FM band was congested.
 
chrisalcorn said:
It could have been L since I don't remember any other females on 107.9. She could have just changed her name. Do you know of the status on the CP? WWAG was crushing WBTF again this morning. Amid the sound quality and lack of signal, it's getting hard to keep listening in the car anymore. It could be something to with the atmosphere as well since the whole FM band was congested.
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Sorry. I don't have an answer. I've been gone from Lexington since spring 2001.
 
Since the discussion is processing, this would be a good place to ask this question. Who was WKQQ's Chief Engineer during the eighties? He was later the Chief Engineer for WQMF. Both stations had wonderful processing under his technical management.
 
radiorob2.0 said:
Since the discussion is processing, this would be a good place to ask this question. Who was WKQQ's Chief Engineer during the eighties? He was later the Chief Engineer for WQMF. Both stations had wonderful processing under his technical management.
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Had to be Kirk Wesley, the current CE at Clear Channel. I know he worked in Lexington at some point, but if it was QQ or not I don't know.

But CEs at QMF are pretty easy.

1. Pete (didnt work in Lex)
2. Kirk
3. Clear Channel took over....Charlie (didnt work in Lex)
4. Jerry (didnt work in Lex)
5. Kirk again.
 
greg.hahn said:
radiorob2.0 said:
Since the discussion is processing, this would be a good place to ask this question. Who was WKQQ's Chief Engineer during the eighties? He was later the Chief Engineer for WQMF. Both stations had wonderful processing under his technical management.
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Had to be Kirk Wesley, the current CE at Clear Channel. I know he worked in Lexington at some point, but if it was QQ or not I don't know.

But CEs at QMF are pretty easy.

1. Pete (didnt work in Lex)
2. Kirk
3. Clear Channel took over....Charlie (didnt work in Lex)
4. Jerry (didnt work in Lex)
5. Kirk again.
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That is him. Thanks.
 
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