790 KRD no longer Cards radio??

[Kyle1016]

Matt Jones on KSR this morning said that 790 won't be "cards radio" much longer. Hopefully this will lead to 790 becoming the UK sports radio station in Louisville.

 

[jb_ky]

Matt Jones on KSR this morning said that 790 won't be "cards radio" much longer. Hopefully this will lead to 790 becoming the UK sports radio station in Louisville.

But the games will NEVER leave WHAS for a few years. 50kw AM station.

 

[Kyle1016]

Maybe the UL games will move to 1080 when UK gets priority on 840

 

[jb_ky]

Maybe the UL games will move to 1080 when UK gets priority on 840

They should flip the calls to WLWK. Then the voice over guy can say this is FOX Sports Radio 790 WL-WK Louisville, Kentucky. Those calls aren't taken now.

 

[Kyle1016]

I like the sound of that, would make for a seem less transition. I look for something to happen around September 8th around the debut of Cowherd's new show

 

[greg.hahn]

I think everything UofL will move to 93.9, including the games. I don't know when the contracts are up but that'll be it.

 

[@louradioandtv]

I think everything UofL will move to 93.9, including the games. I don't know when the contracts are up but that'll be it.

Greg, can you explain to us why the volume is so low on 93.9 when they are local? I'm not sure if it's that way during national programming.

 

[greg.hahn]

Greg, can you explain to us why the volume is so low on 93.9 when they are local? I'm not sure if it's that way during national programming.

Well it's not usually like that the times I've listened, but I know exactly what you mean because I've heard it too. I think they switch from one mode to another and sometimes do it in a "half-fast" way and let it run that way, for whatever reason. It appears they don't know any better.

They have a decent processor on the transmitter end. (All the same stuff Cumulus had, and if you recall they sounded fine.) Whatever problems they have are on the studio end. And I suspect it's more a matter of personnel than equipment.

I don't think they have an engineer, and apparently they don't have anyone monitoring it at times, so when it gets messed up it stays messed up.

Ramsey's first day the audio was horrific. And if you listen to the web stream some of the spots sound like they were running at 200% on the level meter. This is simply a matter of poor production techniques.

I think they've gotten slowly better over the last 6 months, so maybe somebody important will get tired of them sounding like butt and put a stop to it. For any of the rest of us in professional broadcasting in Louisville, sound like that would be an emergency. "Don't let it happen again" would be said loudly and clearly.

 

[sdskees]

Isn't the UofL/iHeart(or whatever) contract through sometime in 2017? I'm pretty sure that was what was said when it was announced about a decade or so ago. My guess is that it would at least go through the basketball season in 2017, meaning another solid year and a half still.

 

[jb_ky]

They could always buy it out early. When UK was apart of the IMG sports network and JMI was coming in they got it a year early. So now they do the pre/post games at WLAP.

 

[@louradioandtv]

Well it's not usually like that the times I've listened, but I know exactly what you mean because I've heard it too. I think they switch from one mode to another and sometimes do it in a "half-fast" way and let it run that way, for whatever reason. It appears they don't know any better.

They have a decent processor on the transmitter end. (All the same stuff Cumulus had, and if you recall they sounded fine.) Whatever problems they have are on the studio end. And I suspect it's more a matter of personnel than equipment.

I don't think they have an engineer, and apparently they don't have anyone monitoring it at times, so when it gets messed up it stays messed up.

Ramsey's first day the audio was horrific. And if you listen to the web stream some of the spots sound like they were running at 200% on the level meter. This is simply a matter of poor production techniques.

I think they've gotten slowly better over the last 6 months, so maybe somebody important will get tired of them sounding like butt and put a stop to it. For any of the rest of us in professional broadcasting in Louisville, sound like that would be an emergency. "Don't let it happen again" would be said loudly and clearly.

Good point. When Cumulus owned them they sounded great and I'm sure the transmitter was left in perfect condition just like 1450's was. I think I remember reading on this board month's ago that 680/93.9's engineer lives in KC at the 810 WHB hub.

 

[Kyle1016]

I can see Union, the owners of 93.9/680/105.7, buying out the contract early from iheart and have all UL programming and games on Union stations and all UK games and programming on 790/840/1080 and see who does better ratings...UK will win in a landslide.