Echo on Don and Mike Show KTHK 1140

[FlavorRadio]

Hi,

Anyone else notice the annoying echo on the Don and Mike show around the noon hour on KTHK 1140. This station comes in surprisingly well in my car in the Richmond/El Cerrito area. I emailed the station about the echo but they claim that is the way they produce the show -- which I find hard to believe.

Whaddaya think?

Steve

 

[ajhenderson]

I think there's a Sacramento board
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?board=255.0

 

[hay]

i've only heard don and mike once on an internet radio stream and when i heard that echo i thought for sure it was a technical issue with either the radio station, the stream, or my computer until i read this post! so i guess they use the reverb effect on purpose. here's a snippet from their wikipedia page:

New Studios

On July 11, 2006, after a three week vacation, the production moved to new studios in Rockville, Md. They returned with a new sound: a reverb effect that resulted in hundreds of emails and calls to complain. Don explained on the air that the echo (largely reminiscent of the sound of WABC-AM radio in its heyday) would give their show a slightly different sound from other shows on the dial. Don's response to the criticisms: "F Off! If you don't like it, change the station."

The move toward reverb has fluctuated throughout the life of the show. When Don became program director of WJFK-FM for a short time, he ordered reverb be added to the entire station, and years before that, when the duo first appeared on WJFK in October of 1991, a caller asked, "Where's the reverb?" The show on WAVA-FM had used heavy reverb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_and_Mike