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Atlanta's Journey Coming To An End?

BRENT said:
Country would be a disaster, we do NOT need more Country............. :-X :-X :-X :-X
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I think we're safe, with Kicks being in the Cumulus stable already, unless Cumulus wanted to put a "Legend"-type classic country station in for some reason. That was one of the formats that Cumulus was stunting with on 97.9 on the 99X-to-Journey flip.

Frankly, Cumulus has their hands full keeping Kicks competitive with the younger-sounding Bull, and doesn't need an even older-skewing country format to siphon off more listeners.
 
I wonder how smooth jazz would work? Just plug in the BA feed? I know it's done quite well on a translator in Orlando, and it was tried on one in Detroit but was forced off the air.

I don't know if they'll flip (not many options), but Journey will never be a threat to Star or B. It's a dud, and a bigger signal wouldn't help it either. A bunch of 80s and 90s songs with Rick Dees voicetracking is not extremely viable.
 
The sound quality on 97.9 isn't strong enough to expect ratings over a 1.0 share - IMO no matter what the format

The 80s stuff sounds awful - most of it's in mono, and it sounds like they're playing a cassette tape on the air - I'm not even sure they're playing remastered CDs - the more recent stuff sounds slightly better, but still nowhere near how it sounds on 98.5
 
It's too compressed. 96 or below. I listened today and it's a good, strong signal. With the money spent and the quality of equipment, 97.9 should sound the best in the market. Who uses CDs anymore? Those always broken CD players were almost as bad as reel-to-reel automation.
 
Mr_Winston-Salem said:
It's too compressed. 96 or below. I listened today and it's a good, strong signal. With the money spent and the quality of equipment, 97.9 should sound the best in the market. Who uses CDs anymore? Those always broken CD players were almost as bad as reel-to-reel automation.
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Not sure why it's so compressed unless it's an artifact of the WWWQ-HD3 airchain and the divvying up of bandwidth among the 3 WWWQ HD subchannels. Could they use some kind of compander to compress it for the HD-3 and then expand it back before sending it out over 97.9?
 
^99X had the same exact problem when they were at 97.9 (songs sounding like they were in mono), and now that they've moved to 98.9 the sound quality is great - could it have something to do with the process Cumulus has set up for the 97.9 frequency?
 
I agree. Both WWWQ HD-2 and 3 sound like they are in mono. What is the maximum bit rate an HD channel can use? For example, how much does WNNX use without any other subchannels?
 
I guess this whole idea of rebroadcasing an HD stream on a translator seems somewhat shady..it IS legal..but a question...What law says that if they are using a translator to "rebroadcast" an HD stream..they are legally bound to actually physically RE broadcast the audio..why could they not just run the audio (same feed as the HD-3) over a Zephyr or other type of STL?

I guess the question is..do they actually have to use the actual HD terrestrial signal to feed the translator?

Seriously..if the station would get a little slicker and improve the audio (especially since the 80's tracks were produced so squashed to begin with) they would end up doing okay.
 
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