BOSTON HAS A RADIO STATION THAT HAS NO AUDIO - 1090 AM, WILD

[Early Byrd]

Yes, a radio station with no (or extremely little) audio...

Every time I tune into 1090 AM, just to see what, if anything, may be going on, I seem to get a carrier signal with no audio. When I turn up the volume to the max, sometimes you can detect something resembling speech or music coming through, but it's not listenable, as it's barely audible.

How long has Radio One been leasing WILD now to the Chinese government? It has to be over a year and a half...and the beat (or lack of it) goes on.

 

[raccoonradio]

I don't know what the tech problem is but this has been mentioned before; at other times they would be interviewing a guest via phone and you'd hear the person on the phone a lot louder than the
host at the control board!

 

[blackgold]

Down with the Chinese government and their buying out WILD-AM! :'(

 

[Eli Polonsky]

The problem is intermittent, whatever it is. Certain shows sound fine, some are too low but listenable, and some are barely audible.

I'm guessing that maybe certain feeds or certain programs that they air are mono feeds being put up on a stereo board in two-channel mono with the channels out of phase to one another, then canceling when mixed to mono as they go to air.

If that's the case, they may be monitoring this board in program stereo rather than monitoring air, and not hearing the cancellation that listeners are hearing on the air.

 

[radiorama1]

Perhaps they are doing a Silent Night Christmas Eve special?

 

[reelyreal]

Down with the Chinese government and their buying out WILD-AM! :'(

If there are 30 people out there listening to the propaganda on a regular basis, I'd be shocked. Hey, if the Chinese want to spend their money in America and make payments to an American company, while nobody's hearing their nonsense, I can think of worse things that could happen.

 

[aerie]

The carrier was still on the air well after sunset today (I heard it about 4:50 PM). No program, just carrier. I wonder if anyone is home?

 

[CTListener]

Down with the Chinese government and their buying out WILD-AM! :'(

If there are 30 people out there listening to the propaganda on a regular basis, I'd be shocked. Hey, if the Chinese want to spend their money in America and make payments to an American company, while nobody's hearing their nonsense, I can think of worse things that could happen.

Popular Communications magazine reported this month that China Radio International has brought to 82 the number of radio stations worldwide that it has placed its programming on, with many more envisioned. I believe Sri Lanka is the latest radio outpost for the Chinese.

 

[samw54]

In the late sixties and early seventies their audio was just the opposite, najorly distorted.

There's one thing that really interests me about WILD in itsd early days. In a 1959 aircheck that I heard of one of Bill Marlow's shows, WILD was the station in Boston that bought the very first PAMS jingle package, PAMS series 1. For those of you with "The Magic Of PAMS" CD box set you can hear the demo for this package. Anyway, I wonder if WILD bought just series 1 or if like several other stations that I know of like CHUM here in Toronto, they bought select cuts from both PAMS series 1 and series 2. The next PAMS numbered package I am aware of being sold to a Boston station is series 6, the Color Radio package for WMEX, which coincidently enough called themselves color radio. They used the news jingle from that package right up through the end of 1961, even though the package was from 1958. I'd just love to find these early Boston jingle packages that's for sure.