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I WAS TUNED TO 1090 THIS MORNING AND IT WASN'T ON!
- Thread starter blackgold
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Coming in here in Beverly, with a station in background (WBAL)
"Hey Rev Al how we doing?"
"Hey Rev Al how we doing?"
WILD is the most technical problem plagued commercial radio station in the Boston market, bar none.
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Don Juannn
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Early Byrd said:
No one is home at WILD.
Don Juannn said:
True, but even when they did have live bodies on the premises, it was a technical wreck. I remember it as far back as the 1960s, and it was horrible. I could never understand why every brand new record they played back then had scratches--not a cue burn scratch, but real scratches...and this is long before they were artifically introduced to hip-hop songs. I believe they were cited by the FCC for overmodulation, and excessively loud commercials as well.
Early Byrd said:
I also remember that sound they had in the '60s, but by the late '80s and through the '90s, they sounded GREAT for AM!
They were in wideband C-Quam AM stereo, and if you had the right receiver for that (I did), it sounded almost as good as FM!
They shut off the AM stereo around six years ago, and when they first went talk in the daytime, they went HD for a short time, only for a few months.
When Radio One sold WILD-FM and decided to run the AM on a shoestring, they shut off the HD, and the analog mono audio has sounded terrible since. All muddy and muffled when they play music, and sometimes only one channel of stereo recordings coming out in the mono mix.
Eli Polonsky said:
Didn't the period of great sound exactly coincide with Grady Moates' tenure as contract CE?
DanStrassberg said:
I would say so.
DanStrassberg said:
More than likely, yes. Grady is an "engineer's engineer", one of the best. I've had the pleasure working with him, several years ago.
Whoever is engineering WILD right now probably has his/or her "hands tied" due to "corporate" interference and the fact that the suits are not putting a dime into it. (You know the mentality..... "If it's on the air..... it sounds just fine to me". I used to have a boss like that.... in another life.) It's a shame that this once highly touted station is sounding like this. They were really sounding great during the days when they were running C-QUAM and the processing was "meaningful" and vibrant. Now it sounds like an IBOC transmitter without the subcarriers. Somebody kept the brickwall filter in line. Not that anything on WILD today is really worth listening to, anyway.
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