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Birmingham odds and ends - WYDE and Hallelujah

tomservo

tomservo

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Ok, I'm perplexed. Tuned in to The Source just now and it's playing weird repeating tones. The RDS is also doing something odd. I took a little video. WDJC-HD3 was airing what sounded like a production reel for a religious program.

Could this be the first station in history to have two different snafus on two different feeds of the same station? That has to be a record!

Speaking of feeds, how is 105.1 Hallelujah being fed? I have it listed as WERC-HD2, but that is carrying smooth jazz, not gospel. I spun the dial on Am as well and came up empty handed.
 
Zach said:
Ok, I'm perplexed. Tuned in to The Source just now and it's playing weird repeating tones.
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That's nothing new because I've heard those issues a while back on The Source. I'm also perplexed by it and how long it seems to last. My layman's guess is at some point the feed to their syndicated shows must have went off the rails figuratively. I doubt this issue would persist when it's time for their live and local shows.

Don't know about the other stations because I can't pick them up where I'm at with just a regular FM/AM radio. They're not kidding about The Source being a flamethrower signal that's for sure. :D
 
We've covered this before. Crawford is a hayseed company that only knows one type of programming... Religion. Anything else that they do goes off the rails quickly, or, worse yet, they do not give it enough time to work. Crawford's corporate chief engineer wears a suit and tie, pushes papers around a desk, and probably hasn't picked up a screwdriver or volt meter in years. Problem at the transmitter site? Forget it. I might get my suit dirty. Hmmmm...which flunky I.T guy can I send out there...

Crawford owns several once great, formerly high rated radio stations, including KLZ in Denver, and the former WHND "Honey Radio" outside Detroit. Today, the ratings should be delivered by Dean Wormer from Animal House:

"Mr. Crawford.... ZERO POINT ZERO" ::)
 
Ok, I'm perplexed. Tuned in to The Source just now and it's playing weird repeating tones. The RDS is also doing something odd. I took a little video. WDJC-HD3 was airing what sounded like a production reel for a religious program.

Speaking of feeds, how is 105.1 Hallelujah being fed? I have it listed as WERC-HD2, but that is carrying smooth jazz, not gospel. I spun the dial on Am as well and came up empty handed.
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As I've said many times in the past, anything is possible with Crawford. Lest we forget...these are the same people who changed WYDE-FM's on-air name three times within a week's period, following the format change to classic hits. ::)

That's interesting about WERC-FM HD2 playing smooth jazz. When the 105.1 translator first appeared, it was offering smooth jazz for a week or two before debuting the Hallelujah format. If Clear Channel is indeed not feeding Hallelujah from another source (AM or HD), then how is that translator legally operating?
 
stereolane said:
We've covered this before. Crawford is a hayseed company that only knows one type of programming... Religion. Anything else that they do goes off the rails quickly, or, worse yet, they do not give it enough time to work. Crawford's corporate chief engineer wears a suit and tie, pushes papers around a desk, and probably hasn't picked up a screwdriver or volt meter in years. Problem at the transmitter site? Forget it. I might get my suit dirty. Hmmmm...which flunky I.T guy can I send out there...

Crawford owns several once great, formerly high rated radio stations, including KLZ in Denver, and the former WHND "Honey Radio" outside Detroit. Today, the ratings should be delivered by Dean Wormer from Animal House:

"Mr. Crawford.... ZERO POINT ZERO" ::)
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Crawford corporate Chief, Chris Alexander, is one of the most respected engineers in the business! A very sharp guy - has forgot more about AM directional antenna systems than most other engineers know...…
I don't know much about the corporate "culture" at Crawford but to call Alexander out as a "suit" is grossly unfair.
And if you're in the business you know things go wrong with technology and there is not always spare manpower to address every issue immediately. I would guess engineering is well aware of any technical issue and there is a good reason it has not been corrected.
 
passtheword said:
As I've said many times in the past, anything is possible with Crawford. Lest we forget...these are the same people who changed WYDE-FM's on-air name three times within a week's period, following the format change to classic hits. ::)
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To be fair, they've kept the same format and name on 101.1fm for at the very least the last few months from what I remember. The wiki article says this current talk format began in January 2009. Of course, I can't confirm if that is true or not. :-\

I remember some years back a local AM station had a similar issue with what I assumed a news feed must have went off the rails. It occurred in the middle of the night. This issue appear to be "takes" of the news break being rotate through instead of switching immediately back to whatever syndicated programming was airing at the time. However, it was fixed by that morning. The station was not own by Crawford, btw.
 
It wasn't my intention to make fun of Crawford so much as to figure out the tones that were being broadcast on WYDE, and if it was related to the cryptic RDS message.

It had to be something local to the transmitter site, I'd think, since WDJC-HD3 was airing the production cuts.
 
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