Has anyone listened, or should I say, attempted to listen to WILD lately? Yesterday the audio was almost non-existent. 
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HEY, HOW 'BOUT THAT AUDIO ON THE 'NEW 1090'
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MarcB said:
Seems to me that this happens a lot either because many of these stations can't afford to bring the audio up to par....or...sadly....just don't care....figuring that the people who buy brokered time have nowhere else to go anyway.
But what is crazy about the audio problems is that WILD never had those problems before. I don't know why now, just because it is brokered programming, that the audio is horrible. It doesn't make any sense.
carmen said:
Yes, but it's a lot worse since CRI. It was muddy and somewhat low before, but at least it was audible at a reasonable setting of the volume control. Since CRI, sometimes it's so low that it's barely even audible even when you crank the volume way up.
Since CRI, the volume goes up and then way down at different times, like something may be intermittent.
Early Byrd said:Has anyone listened, or should I say, attempted to listen to WILD lately? Yesterday the audio was almost non-existent.
Yes, hitting 2 or 3% modulation on positive peaks must do wonders for them. Instead of the two or three listeners they might expect if they were modulating normally with Chinese programs in English, they have probably managed to get the number of listeners down to zero. The other way to look at it, I guess, is that (in terms of audience), they have nowhere to go but up, which isn't exactly true. Oblivion seems like a definite possibility for them.
I noted when they launched they had some kind of news/talk show on and the "reporter"
they talked to had low levels, while the "hosts" back in the studio had even LOWER levels.
Just checked now; I went back and forth between 1090 and WQOM 1060; the latter is louder.
(Signal strength OK for both stations here in Beverly, but what with low levels on 1090, some
fuzz in background). Talking about a female tennis player "stepping away from the national team";
"Women's tennis in particular, on the world circuit, was a model not just for tennis but for
other sports..."
they talked to had low levels, while the "hosts" back in the studio had even LOWER levels.
Just checked now; I went back and forth between 1090 and WQOM 1060; the latter is louder.
(Signal strength OK for both stations here in Beverly, but what with low levels on 1090, some
fuzz in background). Talking about a female tennis player "stepping away from the national team";
"Women's tennis in particular, on the world circuit, was a model not just for tennis but for
other sports..."
Eli Polonsky said:Yes, but it's a lot worse since CRI. It was muddy and somewhat low before, but at least it was audible at a reasonable setting of the volume control. Since CRI, sometimes it's so low that it's barely even audible even when you crank the volume way up.carmen said:
Since CRI, the volume goes up and then way down at different times, like something may be intermittent.
Well, I think it's time they crank up old fashioned, ear bleeding, "AM of the 70s" compression! :
: ;Dchecked today on car radio; had to crank to full blast to hear it at all
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