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91.5 WDBK transmitting in mono
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Nice to hear WDBK is still transmitting at all the way the administration at CCC has treated any and everyone involved with the place over the past 20 years. Did they ever replace the antenna tower which was falling off the roof 12 years ago? And they had the station up for sale in 2014 for $150K. I guess no takers.
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Here's an article about the 2014 attempted sale of the station:
https://www.courierpostonline.com/s...e-explores-sale-longtime-fm-station/14307593/
This is one of those things where people assume if you put a radio station on the internet that it will reach a bigger audience. I hear that over and over from colleges that sell their FM stations. And after the station is sold, no one ever talks about the station again. It ceases to exist as far as the students are concerned. Plus you have the additional expense of SoundExchange royalties and paperwork that the college doesn't have with a broadcast station.
The problem with this station is not only the limited signal, but the fact that it's a free form station with no real format or direction. With all the choices available today, that kind of programming simply is not viable. If the college and the students want to get their fellow students to listen, they need to put something on the station that will cause them to want to listen.
https://www.courierpostonline.com/s...e-explores-sale-longtime-fm-station/14307593/
This is one of those things where people assume if you put a radio station on the internet that it will reach a bigger audience. I hear that over and over from colleges that sell their FM stations. And after the station is sold, no one ever talks about the station again. It ceases to exist as far as the students are concerned. Plus you have the additional expense of SoundExchange royalties and paperwork that the college doesn't have with a broadcast station.
The problem with this station is not only the limited signal, but the fact that it's a free form station with no real format or direction. With all the choices available today, that kind of programming simply is not viable. If the college and the students want to get their fellow students to listen, they need to put something on the station that will cause them to want to listen.
Believe it or not, WDBK programmed a mainstream alternative format between the demise of Y-100 and the startup of WRFF, around the time it started encoding for PPM, and it actually showed up in the first PPM ahead of several higher powered noncomms and regional AMs. That success was shortlived due to the aforementioned college administration (they opted to limit access to the building to weekdays, automating other dayparts and effectively killing much of the station's momentum and student enthusiasm). The college wasn't interested in funding streaming at that time (2003-7 timeframe). I suspect the college set up the stream in 2014 only as a bone to the students in exchange for selling their FM.
The article alludes to CCC wanting to sell the station rather than repair its infrastructure (in this case, the antenna tower, which by 2014 had been in disrepair for over 15 years), probably one of the reasons the station didn't ultimately sell.
The article alludes to CCC wanting to sell the station rather than repair its infrastructure (in this case, the antenna tower, which by 2014 had been in disrepair for over 15 years), probably one of the reasons the station didn't ultimately sell.
The webstream sounds distorted overall and like it's being fed through over-amped reverb. It does sound like it's in stereo though.
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