A Safer Syracuse

[jay]

I was driving in the car a little after 8PM, came across Hot, and definitely had some comic relief.

It's great Clear Channel did this A Safer Syracuse Summit. However, actually airing it was not a great idea.

What a pile of crap of audio that one hour special was, on WWHT, WPHR and WSYR. I didn't get a chance to see if it sounded that bad on TV. But the audio was TERRIBLE! So distorted, so hard to listen to.

If the audio source material wasn't bad enough:

Listeners on WWHT got the distinct treat of hearing the entire show on the right channel only. Apparently not only did we have morons AT the event doing the sound, but we had morons at the studio as well running the board...

Listeners on WPHR got the pleasure of hearing audio on both the Left and the Right channels... However, if you didn't think the audio source material sucked enough, the on-channel booster fighting with the main signal made an added the additional treat of CRAP on top of CRAP. Try understanding what they were saying while driving on 690!

While it sounded bad on WSYR, it was far more intelligible than the source on the FM's. Glad we used the fidelity to our advantage.

In all fairness, I only listened from 8PM-8:15PM. I'm not sure if they fixed it after that time.

As if stopping down your music formats for an hour on two stations wasn't bad enough to scare away your audience... Airing a show with audio that SUCKED is a sure fire way to get them to listen to something else… And I heard just that… The store I was going to always has on WWHT… and… <gasp> another radio station was on instead, go figure!

I know the whole idea of the summit was to reduce violence in Syracuse, but whoever did the audio for the event should be taken to the South Side, thrown in Onondaga Creek, and be shot several times.

Clear Channel... Serving the community... Well, if you could hear it.

 

[faridwontmind]

Re: Everybodys A Critic

> I was driving in the car a little after 8PM, came across
> Hot, and definitely had some comic relief.
>
> It's great Clear Channel did this A Safer Syracuse Summit.
> However, actually airing it was not a great idea.
>
> What a pile of crap of audio that one hour special was, on
> WWHT, WPHR and WSYR. I didn't get a chance to see if it
> sounded that bad on TV. But the audio was TERRIBLE! So
> distorted, so hard to listen to.
>
> If the audio source material wasn't bad enough:
>
> Listeners on WWHT got the distinct treat of hearing the
> entire show on the right channel only. Apparently not only
> did we have morons AT the event doing the sound, but we had
> morons at the studio as well running the board...
>
> Listeners on WPHR got the pleasure of hearing audio on both
> the Left and the Right channels... However, if you didn't
> think the audio source material sucked enough, the
> on-channel booster fighting with the main signal made an
> added the additional treat of CRAP on top of CRAP. Try
> understanding what they were saying while driving on 690!
>
> While it sounded bad on WSYR, it was far more intelligible
> than the source on the FM's. Glad we used the fidelity to
> our advantage.
>
> In all fairness, I only listened from 8PM-8:15PM. I'm not
> sure if they fixed it after that time.
>
> As if stopping down your music formats for an hour on two
> stations wasn't bad enough to scare away your audience...
> Airing a show with audio that SUCKED is a sure fire way to
> get them to listen to something else… And I heard just that…
> The store I was going to always has on WWHT… and… another
> radio station was on instead, go figure!
>
> I know the whole idea of the summit was to reduce violence
> in Syracuse, but whoever did the audio for the event should
> be taken to the South Side, thrown in Onondaga Creek, and be
> shot several times.
>
> Clear Channel... Serving the community... Well, if you
> could hear it.
>
You think its easy doing this without your SONY DVD player and laptop confiscated as "evidence"

 

[dampier]

> What a pile of crap of audio that one hour special was, on
> WWHT, WPHR and WSYR. I didn't get a chance to see if it
> sounded that bad on TV. But the audio was TERRIBLE! So
> distorted, so hard to listen to.

If it's been done in Syracuse, it's gonna come to Rochester next. Yay. Is it me or does this kind of low-end simulcasting resemble Radio Moscow on 15 frequencies, half of which were so distorted as to be painful. Could it be the audio originated on the TV side (which always sounds so nice on radio) and that made a bad situation worse?

> I know the whole idea of the summit was to reduce violence
> in Syracuse, but whoever did the audio for the event should
> be taken to the South Side, thrown in Onondaga Creek, and be
> shot several times.

Someone needs to explain to me how a radio program is going to reduce violence. Were there on air hypnotists? Group virtual hugs? Dr. Phil? Cash for Reformed Criminals? KISS your gun goodbye? It's too HOT93 for crime? Lets Mix it up for peace? More variety, less gunfire? Were country stations involved? Refrigerator magnets? Keychains?

Most likely, the violence this kind of event represented came about when listeners and viewers were trampled rushing to change the channel.

 

[WJPZOnAir]

Re: Everybodys A Critic

fyi -- the idiot in the studio was me. and the problem was corrected after 15 minutes.

i know its hard to believe, but people make mistakes.

 

[bartstar]

Re: A Safer Syracuse sponsored by:

hey staff...let's sell this show and make money. who cares about the community?
let's make our budgets.