Drudge Mostly Commercials?

[Infidel]

Drudge's Sunday night shows always seems to have a lot of commercial breaks, but I never noticed how many until this weekend. For example, he would go to break at 11:50, come back at 11:59 for a 30 SECOND teaser, then go to break until 12:08. Then repeat at the bottom of the hour. So there is more time spent on commercials/news than on the show. I was listening to WPRO instead of WRKO (due to awful reception), so maybe this is a fluke on WPRO, but outrageous in any event.

 

[rockababy]

What is up with WRKO reception? Seems like after the sun goes does the signal drops terribly and the later it gets, the worse the signal, it fades in and out, get LOUDER then drops to a whisper. ???

 

[racconradio]

Depends where you are re: WRKO signal.As for heavy ad load on Drudge, it all depends on how they stack them up--could be some breaks (and this has happened on Coast to Coast, too) seem to go on forever while other parts of the hour have quicker breaks.Anyone notice the big load of ads put on just after midnight on WEEI? I think they have to "make good"--adsthat were supposed to run during Red Sox game but in some situations, instead of going to the ads during a pitching change, "we'll keep it right here"...and they gotta run those ads sometime. Result: JT The Bricksometimes is JIPed (Joined In Progress) 2 or 3 minutes late because of the make-good ad glut.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

What is up with WRKO reception? Seems like after the sun goes does the signal drops terribly and the later it gets, the worse the signal, it fades in and out, get LOUDER then drops to a whisper. ???

You must be west of the Boston area, probably west of Route 128. WRKO has to go directional at sunset because AM signals can skip long distances at night and WRKO legally must cut their signal to the west to avoid skipping and interfering with stations in other areas.Surf around your AM dial at night and you'll hear stations skipping up here from New York, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Ohio, etc... that you can't hear in the daytime. That's because the atmosphere changes after sunset and reflects AM signals farther away. (This doesn't affect FM wavelengths). Many AM stations such as WRKO legally have to change their antenna patterns at sunset so they don't skip and interfere with other stations. Some others have to lower their power or go off the air entirely.The fading and volume changes you're hearing are typical AM nighttime phasing and drifting caused by their directional antenna system and atmospheric changes.At night WRKO's signal beams east/southeast from their Burlington transmitter over Boston (and out to sea). It's still loud, clear and stable right metro Boston and it still does pretty well at night on the north and south shores, and it can skip up into northern New England, but it won't go west much past Framingham, or even barely that far, after they change pattern at sunset.