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I find it really hard to believe...

R

ricksegers

that between Columbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta, Rome, Albany, Valdosta, Brunswick and all points in between there is nothing going on in the radio biz in these markets. I spent a lot of years south of the gnatline. Come on, there has to be something shaking sometime...

Rick
 
> that between Columbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta, Rome,
> Albany, Valdosta, Brunswick and all points in between there
> is nothing going on in the radio biz in these markets. I
> spent a lot of years south of the gnatline. Come on, there
> has to be something shaking sometime...
>
> Rick
>

We just got new dual mounted flat screen monitors.

Na. Nothing is up. Everyone is going on or getting back from vacation and gearing up for the fall book.<P ID="signature">______________
Russ
APD/Middays
97-3 KISS FM (WAEV)
Savannah, GA</P>
 
Let's see, Everett Griner is still reporting farm news. Kurt Baker (B-100) is in his 30th year of radio. (It all started at a 250 watt radio station.)
WAAC is still playing country music. Wilbur Heath is keeping things steady at WVOH. Macon radio is really boring, Savannah radio is just as bad and down in Thomasville, Len's got WPAX/WTUF running like a top. That about cover it?<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by jjjohnson on 09/20/05 03:40 PM.</FONT></P>
 
Ev Griner still doing farm news and Len running a class operation in Thomasville. It's nice to know somethings never change.

Rick


> Let's see, Everett Griner is still reporting farm news. Kurt
> Baker (B-100) is in his 30th year of radio. (It all started
> at a 250 watt radio station.)
> WAAC is still playing country music. Wilbur Heath is keeping
> things steady at WVOH. Macon radio is really boring,
> Savannah radio is just as bad and down in Thomasville, Len's
> got WPAX/WTUF running like a top. That about cover it?
>
 
> Ev Griner still doing farm news and Len running a class
> operation in Thomasville. It's nice to know somethings never
> change.
>
> Rick
>
>
> > Let's see, Everett Griner is still reporting farm news.
> Kurt
> > Baker (B-100) is in his 30th year of radio. (It all
> started
> > at a 250 watt radio station.)
> > WAAC is still playing country music. Wilbur Heath is
> keeping
> > things steady at WVOH. Macon radio is really boring,
> > Savannah radio is just as bad and down in Thomasville,
> Len's
> > got WPAX/WTUF running like a top. That about cover it?
> >
>
Ev Griner and Wilbur Heath. Two of my favorite radio people. Ev reports on soyBEANS and Wilbur plays Red Sovine records. You can't get that just anywhere. See what folks in the big markets miss.
 
Here in South GA.

From an engineering side...we just put a new Air1 station on the air in the Adel/Valdosta area (WVRI), Under it's new owner, WBGE Bainbridge is shaping up to be some of the best small-town local radio around, and as usual Len Robinson's 2 stations (WPAX and WTUF) are still the best sounding, and most interesting. This past Saturday, he did his Bluegrass show live from a local auditorium to raise money for the Hurricane relief. He brought in over $5000 total. Not bad for a small town (Thomasville). Haven't heard WMGR or WGRA lately...WSTT is still a jukebox with bad audio, WHGH hasn't changed at all, WMTM is still a good oldies station, and WQLI is picking up where the old 102.3 out of Cairo left off. In Thomasville we've also got a CSN translator and a great little Calvary Chapel LPFM (WJGG). WAYT is licensed to Thomasville, but mostly focuses on Tallahassee. They've got strong local personalities and are very involved with the community...in Tallahassee...same with WTLY which is also a Thomasville station that focuses on Tallahasee. Oh...and we have a couple of pirates here also...haven't heard anything out of them lately...I think they finally figured out that what they were doing was illegal.
One other note involving South GA. and radio...my company has just purchased the Florida office of RF Specialties and is moving it to Thomasville, GA. The new office will be called RF Specialties of GA. We're still in the transition process at this point...but should be fully operating from Thomasville within a few weeks. Check out our website at www.rfspec.com.



-Chris Hall
www.reelaudio.net
www.rfspec.com
 
> > Ev Griner still doing farm news and Len running a class
> > operation in Thomasville. It's nice to know somethings
> never
> > change.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> > > Let's see, Everett Griner is still reporting farm news.
> > Kurt
> > > Baker (B-100) is in his 30th year of radio. (It all
> > started
> > > at a 250 watt radio station.)
> > > WAAC is still playing country music. Wilbur Heath is
> > keeping
> > > things steady at WVOH. Macon radio is really boring,
> > > Savannah radio is just as bad and down in Thomasville,
> > Len's
> > > got WPAX/WTUF running like a top. That about cover it?
> > >
> >
> Ev Griner and Wilbur Heath. Two of my favorite radio
> people. Ev reports on soyBEANS and Wilbur plays Red Sovine
> records. You can't get that just anywhere. See what folks
> in the big markets miss.
>

How about Gene Rogers at WUFF-AM/FM in Eastman, "aka" BIG WOOF RADIO?
 
Re: Here in South GA.

> From an engineering side...we just put a new Air1 station on
> the air in the Adel/Valdosta area (WVRI), Under it's new
> owner, WBGE Bainbridge is shaping up to be some of the best
> small-town local radio around, and as usual Len Robinson's 2
> stations (WPAX and WTUF) are still the best sounding, and
> most interesting. This past Saturday, he did his Bluegrass
> show live from a local auditorium to raise money for the
> Hurricane relief. He brought in over $5000 total. Not bad
> for a small town (Thomasville). Haven't heard WMGR or WGRA
> lately...WSTT is still a jukebox with bad audio, WHGH hasn't
> changed at all, WMTM is still a good oldies station, and
> WQLI is picking up where the old 102.3 out of Cairo left
> off. In Thomasville we've also got a CSN translator and a
> great little Calvary Chapel LPFM (WJGG).

Yeah. I remember when the old Whistle 102 was on the air, and the old Q-102 before that back in the late 1980's and early 1990's, before the Bible Broadcasting Network put the 102.5 translator on the air in Albany. WTUF could be also be heard in Albany on a good night, before 106.1 signed on circa 1993. Cruisin' 94, as the flagship station for the Colquitt County Packers, obviously has one of the best high school football broadcasts in the state, if not the nation. I've listened to WHGH whenever I've had the chance, and it doesn't sound bad for a daytimer. And as far as WPAX and WTUF, I think it's one of the best small market operations around, with a heritage that dates back more than 80 years, beginning with WPAX in 1922.

Any questions? <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by radionut987 on 09/21/05 02:32 AM.</FONT></P>
 
In Columbus, from a listener's point of view

Rock 103 recently fixed their horribly overmodulated signal. For several years it sounded like an old worn out radio turned up too loud, where the midrange and treble literally screached. It was impossible to comfortably listen to them on a nice hi-fi system. Now that they've fixed the overmodulation, it's more evident than ever that they're broadcasting low bitrate MP3. The music is heavily compressed, and the highs are slurred and almost nonexistent. Rock 103 *CAN* sound really good, because during John Boy & Billy the music sounds crystal clear since it's broadcasted directly from satellite.

WBUE-LP 96.1 (Beacon University) is broadcasting at flea power now, probably no more than 100mW. It was completely off the air for a few weeks. They used to broadcast with 85W, but their signal bled heavily into 95.9 and 96.3, even in the fringe areas. You can see their tower on I-185, at the NE corner of northbound 185 and the Veteran's Pkwy bridge. Signal is good in either direction up to about a 1/2 mile, then it fades away and Atlanta's 96 Rock takes over.

Q107.3 is having intermittent transmitter problems. At times it sounds like you're listening through a tin can, during which the transmitted power is greatly reduced. Don't know what's going on there.

That's all I can tell your from the listener's standpoint.
 
Re: In Columbus, from a listener's point of view

> Rock 103 recently fixed their horribly overmodulated signal.
> For several years it sounded like an old worn out radio
> turned up too loud, where the midrange and treble literally
> screached. It was impossible to comfortably listen to them
> on a nice hi-fi system. Now that they've fixed the
> overmodulation, it's more evident than ever that they're
> broadcasting low bitrate MP3. The music is heavily
> compressed, and the highs are slurred and almost
> nonexistent. Rock 103 *CAN* sound really good, because
> during John Boy & Billy the music sounds crystal clear since
> it's broadcasted directly from satellite.

I wouldn't say that their problem was overmodulation; that just refers to the peak signal level and carrier deviation. I don't know at what level you affect the receiver, but it's perfectly legal to run up to 110% if you have subcarriers, and this should not affect the captured signal. What will sound bad is if you keep the peak level at 100% and then run up the average (i.e. the loudness). Then you start clipping the peaks and you get artifacts.

I think that they must have had some awful kind of processor or "enhancer" that horribly EQed it. The high end has preemphasis, so you get a greater signal level there anyway, so with whatever EQ they were using, they probably had quite a bit of high frequency limiting.

At any rate, Rock 103 has sounded like crap for years, and I have yet to hear a station that sounds as distorted. You gotta give them credit though; they did sound unique!
 
Re: In Columbus, from a listener's point of view

Yep, that's what I meant! Their midrange and treble clipped ALL the time. Listening to people calling in was especially awful. They finally fixed that problem, and like you said, I have never heard any station sound quite as bad as Rock 103 did.

If they'd go back to using CDs, or atleast increase the bitrate used for their stored music, they'd be a descent sounding station. Being a Clear Channel station, I'm surprised they don't. But then again, this is Columbus.

> I wouldn't say that their problem was overmodulation; that
> just refers to the peak signal level and carrier deviation.
> I don't know at what level you affect the receiver, but it's
> perfectly legal to run up to 110% if you have subcarriers,
> and this should not affect the captured signal. What will
> sound bad is if you keep the peak level at 100% and then run
> up the average (i.e. the loudness). Then you start clipping
> the peaks and you get artifacts.
>
> I think that they must have had some awful kind of processor
> or "enhancer" that horribly EQed it. The high end has
> preemphasis, so you get a greater signal level there anyway,
> so with whatever EQ they were using, they probably had quite
> a bit of high frequency limiting.
>
> At any rate, Rock 103 has sounded like crap for years, and I
> have yet to hear a station that sounds as distorted. You
> gotta give them credit though; they did sound unique!
>
 
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