For almost a week 98.9 has been sounding like a really low bitrate mp3. It's hard to explain just how bad it is, it's just the worst sound quality on radio is all i can say. It's almost unlistenable. No, no...it is unlistenable lol
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Does 98.9 not have an engineer, or anyone that pays attention?
- Thread starter bwilliam614
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Yep, low budget. With an FM signal they could at least spring for a 128k feed.
bwilliam614 said:
My understanding they are using an IP Codec to get audio to the channel 10 tower site. The problem with an IP codec is if your using a low bit rate your going to run into trouble with satellite programming because satellite talk shows are compressed. [and when codecs clash... it sounds really bad]
I am not a radio professional or an engineer, but I am glad someone brought this up....to the 'layman' like me...it 'sounds like crap'.
From what I've been told, all radio satellite feeds use some form of bit rate reduction (aka "compression"). The sound on 98.9 is aliasing distortion due to a very low bit rate somewhere in the air chain and is not the typical sound of stacked compression algorithms. Wow, I really sound like a geek.
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Agreed. Plus I was listening to Hugh Hewitt the other evening and it sounded like he was clipping coupons or worse his nails during an interview and Bennett this morning was breathing like Jabba the Hut.
del_griffith said:
AFAIK they always sound like that. The sound effects are more entertaining than the words.
The last time I heard Hugh Hewitt (online) about about two months ago he was "interviewing" someone from the National Journal and raking him over the coals for failing to admit the "obvious, scientifically-proven fact" that the polls were highly-skewed to the left. Maybe they should rename the station "Wrong Answer." LMAO.
It's Salem...they'll get it fixed...the ink on the purchase agreement hasn't even dried yet.
I have listened once or twice and if I did listen to talk radio I would not listen to them...that said, I think the format is BRILLIANT in that it doesn't require any sort of marketing to have an audience...the people who want to hear it will find it by word of mouth, social networking and focused use of personnel and money. They are in a no lose situation in that they do not need to elbow in for ratings because the format is specifically NICHE and the only real expense of the station is in purchasing the signal...they already have a sales staff in place that knows how to sell niche market radio...it is just BRILLIANT the way they have leveraged their strengths to be even stronger.
I have listened once or twice and if I did listen to talk radio I would not listen to them...that said, I think the format is BRILLIANT in that it doesn't require any sort of marketing to have an audience...the people who want to hear it will find it by word of mouth, social networking and focused use of personnel and money. They are in a no lose situation in that they do not need to elbow in for ratings because the format is specifically NICHE and the only real expense of the station is in purchasing the signal...they already have a sales staff in place that knows how to sell niche market radio...it is just BRILLIANT the way they have leveraged their strengths to be even stronger.
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