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Fox Sports 104.9 audio

101tm

101tm

For the last couple of weeks, the audio feed on WROO 104.9 has been dropping out at various intervals. Last night, it was so bad you could barely hear what was being said. This is on all programming, not just FSR. I’m assuming it’s some kind of link from the studio to the transmitter site that’s having issues.

Maybe they’re aiming for a 0.1 since you can’t even listen to it if you wanted to. iHeart needs to shoot this horse already. I wouldn’t be shocked if nobody at iHeart has listened long enough to notice. Can’t say I’d blame them.
 
101tm said:
For the last couple of weeks, the audio feed on WROO 104.9 has been dropping out at various intervals. Last night, it was so bad you could barely hear what was being said. This is on all programming, not just FSR. I’m assuming it’s some kind of link from the studio to the transmitter site that’s having issues.

Maybe they’re aiming for a 0.1 since you can’t even listen to it if you wanted to. iHeart needs to shoot this horse already. I wouldn’t be shocked if nobody at iHeart has listened long enough to notice. Can’t say I’d blame them.
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radiofan2023 said:
Maybe they just have one engineer for a bunch of stations that hasn’t gotten to it yet.
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There's a good chance that the engineers are actually based on another market. Charlotte, Atlanta or Asheville. They likely have a LOT of stations to take care of. But, personally, I don't think the company really cares. After all, on a log, the national commercials aired - even if no one heard them. That's all they care about. Getting paid.

How many times have I heard an EAS test happen in the middle of a stop set, so the commercials get cut off? Think the client got a make good? Doubtful.

And we wonder why no one listens.
 
AMRocks said:
There's a good chance that the engineers are actually based on another market. Charlotte, Atlanta or Asheville. They likely have a LOT of stations to take care of. But, personally, I don't think the company really cares. After all, on a log, the national commercials aired - even if no one heard them. That's all they care about. Getting paid.

How many times have I heard an EAS test happen in the middle of a stop set, so the commercials get cut off? Think the client got a make good? Doubtful.

And we wonder why no one listens.
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Does their streaming have these problems too?
 
No issues with the stream.

What’s surprising is iHeart has, even after they lost the local engineer, been very diligent at maintaining and running the engineering side of the cluster well. The stations sound fantastic. I’m not sure if iHeart only uses their own engineers, or has contract engineers.

My suspicion is if it isn’t 92.5, 100.5, or 102.5, it’s not a priority. Especially on a signal that underperforms and is an afterthought to the extent of 104.9. There are so few listeners, if a tree falls in the forest….
 
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