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Big 89 Rewind
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I heard from a friend that their will be...still waiting to read more from WLS's website about lineup.
I think WLS Music Radio is famous for their Music Radio of the 1960s & 1970s with jocks like Dick Biondi, John Record Landecker, Larry Lujack, etc. I don't believe WLS will be featuring their talk host or doing late 80s music.
I think so too, we should see news about this years WLS Rewind on WLS's website very soon.
WABC has been broadcasting their "rewind" for 10 years.
Not sure about WLS until/unless they announce it.
Not sure about WLS until/unless they announce it.
If you consider that their GM John Gallagher just quit to go back to Detroit and now they're being managed by Mike Fowler, the guy running WZZN, "True Oldies," I'm guessing you won't be hearing any 60's or 70's on the Big 89 this Memorial Day weekend.
EnbyCee said:
By 1988 WLS was sinking fast in the ratings with that wild AC format. They went full time talk a year later.
It's going to happen, according to the website. Chuck Knapp, Larry Lujack with Tommy Edwards, Fred Winston, Bill Bailey, John Landecker, and Jeff Davis on the air, all day. Which Bill Bailey is participating? Okay, I'm sure it'll be the "younger" one who's in Grand Rapids these days. The "old" guy from Louisville used to crack me up though. I'm not sure he's still alive though.
theharleyshow said:
Bill Bailey, the older one, is living in a rest home in Louisville and doing a feature on WAKY(FM) Radcliff/Louisville each morning. He is recovering from Emphysema and a small stroke and even though he is limited to a wheel chair, the mind is still sharp. The Duke also handles PA duties inside the rest home, "If you survived lunch they you will enjoy dinner....."
Here is a link to the new WAKY http://www.waky1035.com/. If you scroll down you will see Bailey on the right hand side of the page.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but isn't 'ABC's Rewound Specal basically a collection of airchecks played during their special? Whereas, 'LS has the jocks live doing a "real" show.
Last year's rewind special was badly marred by ibiquity's HD AM rev 2.? which had really bad hiss.
I was listening near Green Bay, Wis last year, and it wasn't too bad at that distance, even daytime.
The distance leaves most of the hiss behind, and then the analog left sounds almost OK.
It sounded pretty sad locally last year.
Then came August 2007, and HD AM in Chicago was upgraded.
This year's will at least be less marred by the cuurent HD AM version, and the fact that WLS has better balanced the
distribution of spectral response to add enough presence to fool the ear into hearing higher frequencies.
Maybe even began letting through a little higher frequencies.
They've put a pretty good bump somewhere in that curve.
If they really wanted to rewind, they should turn the iboc off and run that thing like it's 1968-1978, when
WLS and WCFL ruled. Nothing like some good +150% modulation to make music punchy and loud!
I hope they have the sense to turn on some of the Mammoth Cave reverb they had once perfected.
Can anyone here relate what WLS used over the various years for reverb?
Or is it still top secret? It was majestic yet dry and wet at the same time.. Never boingy, bangy or boomy.
Not too much, not too little. I still struggle to get that sound. I do, but it's a razor-thin window.
Of course, it'll sound good after dark.
I'm not likely to listen to local radio on the web.
I will not be listening on my Accurian HD radio either.
Even now, I tune in WLS in HD and there's a smear in the sound that is WAY more distressing than any noises.
Music just sounds odd but crisp. Busy stuff even with voice can hide the codec sound.
"Bare" announcer voices are wavery with bad, high-frequency, audibly continuously changing phase distortion.
Think oldtimey tape-head mistracking, but with zizz.
It also sounds like air voices are speaking from a stairwell or small studio with no insulation.
Not a bad echo, but certainly a doubling of the sound in a way that sounds almost like nothing else in the real world or radio.
I suspect they can't get rid of it. Maybe I'll see what the webstream sounds like, and put that on my part 15 w/reverb.
I was listening near Green Bay, Wis last year, and it wasn't too bad at that distance, even daytime.
The distance leaves most of the hiss behind, and then the analog left sounds almost OK.
It sounded pretty sad locally last year.
Then came August 2007, and HD AM in Chicago was upgraded.
This year's will at least be less marred by the cuurent HD AM version, and the fact that WLS has better balanced the
distribution of spectral response to add enough presence to fool the ear into hearing higher frequencies.
Maybe even began letting through a little higher frequencies.
They've put a pretty good bump somewhere in that curve.
If they really wanted to rewind, they should turn the iboc off and run that thing like it's 1968-1978, when
WLS and WCFL ruled. Nothing like some good +150% modulation to make music punchy and loud!
I hope they have the sense to turn on some of the Mammoth Cave reverb they had once perfected.
Can anyone here relate what WLS used over the various years for reverb?
Or is it still top secret? It was majestic yet dry and wet at the same time.. Never boingy, bangy or boomy.
Not too much, not too little. I still struggle to get that sound. I do, but it's a razor-thin window.
Of course, it'll sound good after dark.
I'm not likely to listen to local radio on the web.
I will not be listening on my Accurian HD radio either.
Even now, I tune in WLS in HD and there's a smear in the sound that is WAY more distressing than any noises.
Music just sounds odd but crisp. Busy stuff even with voice can hide the codec sound.
"Bare" announcer voices are wavery with bad, high-frequency, audibly continuously changing phase distortion.
Think oldtimey tape-head mistracking, but with zizz.
It also sounds like air voices are speaking from a stairwell or small studio with no insulation.
Not a bad echo, but certainly a doubling of the sound in a way that sounds almost like nothing else in the real world or radio.
I suspect they can't get rid of it. Maybe I'll see what the webstream sounds like, and put that on my part 15 w/reverb.
Tom Wells writes...
"Of course, it'll sound good after dark."
Yes. Tom is correct. Again.
They'll be firing up the C-QuAM!! Wouldn't it be great if Chief Warren could convince the 'top brass' to just go with C-Quam during the entire 'LS Rewind? Music in C-QuAM AM Stereo. Now there's a thought...
Icing on the 'LS Rewind Memorial Day celebration cake.
"Of course, it'll sound good after dark."
Yes. Tom is correct. Again.
They'll be firing up the C-QuAM!! Wouldn't it be great if Chief Warren could convince the 'top brass' to just go with C-Quam during the entire 'LS Rewind? Music in C-QuAM AM Stereo. Now there's a thought...
Icing on the 'LS Rewind Memorial Day celebration cake.
vforest76 said:
Long story short, the technology for C-QUAM AM Stereo and IBOC utilize similar methods so both can't happen. Many factory radios made up to a few years ago (maybe still today) had AM Stereo on their higher end models. So the radios are out there but we must focus on KBOC "Kick Back-On Channel", but that is a rant for another radio-info board.
As far as WLS HD I had thought Citadel pulled the plug on HD, at least at night. WLS still lights up at night in stereo and I hear separation. Ironically I didn't notice much separation during last year's Rewind; but then again it was rare to hear WLS at night with it being clobbered by a dozen stations that are suppose to power down or change pattern.
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