Colts audio credit...

[Tom Berg]

Anyone from "1070 The Fan" read this stuff?

If so, someone might want to get in touch with the bigwigs at ESPN radio to correct something.

I listen to the "football sunday night" show from the network, and every time they play some Bob Lamey/Colts audio, they credit "WFBQ".

If you record on a logger, I heard it at 933pm last night. I can only assume they've been doing it all season.

fyi....

 

[MikeStandardsFromIndiana]

My GUess is the bigwigs at ESPN probly never realized the colts radio rights changed hands after the super bowl victory 2 years ago tom. And to thing ESPN should know better especially that the colts are on their indianapolis flagship station

 

[Sandy the Clown]

Thanks for catching that. Didn't hear it this week. Thanks also for noting the time - made it nice and easy to grab and send to ESPN's national PD and affiliate director. They promised to correct it, and we'll monitor to make sure.

 

[ten_four]

ESPN radio runs an hour sports center from 5 to 6 AM and they gave credit to the Colts Radio Network on a couple of Lamey cuts this morning.

 

[CleanAudio]

While you are on the topic of Colts Audio, in a differant term. The audio for the Colts Network once it moved to 1070/97.1 is probably the worst quality I have ever heard, accept when it was on 1070 back in the original days of Colts in Indy that was the worst, In those day's when Lamey would make an exciting call the audio was so distorted that you could not make out what was being said. Now fast forward to now, I find if funny that I had to turn to the 1070 feed of the game because listening to it on the FM broadcast of 97.1 (in Mono) the audio was so bad (muddy) that I was questioning if I was listening to FM. Someone at the Colts Network flagship should contact the engineering guys at WFBQ to find out how to do an NFL broadcast and make it sound great. I remember listening to the broadcast on WFBQ and when they returned from a commercial break the audio from the stadium came rolling in BIG with the crown up in stereo, and when Bob would scream the audio was not all distorted. Tip of the hat to whoever handled the audio engineering for the Colts network at WFBQ.

 

[RDO]

I was listening to 93.1 today on the North side of town and the audio was really bad, too. What's up?

 

[ten_four]

ESPN radio runs an hour sports center from 5 to 6 AM and they gave credit to the Colts Radio Network on a couple of Lamey cuts this morning.

I must add that the cut sounded like it was from an internet stream. Quality was shaky.

 

[Ann Tenna]

While you are on the topic of Colts Audio, in a differant term. The audio for the Colts Network once it moved to 1070/97.1 is probably the worst quality I have ever heard, accept when it was on 1070 back in the original days of Colts in Indy that was the worst, In those day's when Lamey would make an exciting call the audio was so distorted that you could not make out what was being said. Now fast forward to now, I find if funny that I had to turn to the 1070 feed of the game because listening to it on the FM broadcast of 97.1 (in Mono) the audio was so bad (muddy) that I was questioning if I was listening to FM. Someone at the Colts Network flagship should contact the engineering guys at WFBQ to find out how to do an NFL broadcast and make it sound great. I remember listening to the broadcast on WFBQ and when they returned from a commercial break the audio from the stadium came rolling in BIG with the crown up in stereo, and when Bob would scream the audio was not all distorted. Tip of the hat to whoever handled the audio engineering for the Colts network at WFBQ.

Noticed that also, the audio quality is really bad since the move from WFBQ. In a lot of cases, even the commercials sound bad, and as I understand it the Colts people produce the commercials at their studio and send them to the flagship to run during the games. If that's true, the Colts need to get a new production person or engineer. I don't remember it being as bad back in the WFBQ days. As CleanAudio posted, the audio quality from the game site on WFBQ was incredible, clean and loud, full fidelity stereo, even when Bob was screaming, it almost sounded like you were there. I swear at times you could even hear the rain falling during the Super Bowl in Miami on the radio broadcast on Q95. The commercials weren't great then either, but they weren't as bad as they seem now. Maybe they were produced at the station then instead of at the Colts studio. Either way, it's sad to see the sound quality of a station-especially the FM station-being dragged down by poor production or engineering, whoever is in charge of that. I agree it might be worth a call over to WFBQ by the Colts and Emmis to see how to do it right or to see if they could hire the person who was doing it back then.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

The broadcast over the Network Indiana bird sounds fine (same as it did when WFBQ had the contract, at least) ... so it must be something at WFNI/WLHK causing Ann's concerns.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

(I should add that Network Indiana is mono-only, so there is no stereo sound on the affiliated stations)

 

[Ann Tenna]

(I should add that Network Indiana is mono-only, so there is no stereo sound on the affiliated stations)

I worked for a while at a Colts affiliates a few years ago, and I know WFBQ did feed the game broadcast in stereo over the network, same as the Indy feed. Don't know whether affiliates ran it that way, I know we did. Since I no longer work there, I can't speak to the quality of the network feed from Emmis now, but boy the over the air production sure doesn't sound good here in Indy anymore. Too bad.