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iHeart Says Revenues Are Up

DavidEduardo said:
You bring up an interesting point: do any stations record for later use audio from an over-the-air monitor as opposed to a pre-band specific processing chain?

If audio is recorded off the air, it is the product of the leveling and peak limiting devices at a station transmitter. I would think that recording for rebroadcast would be taken either at the board output or right after any studio-based AGC activity.
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It seems like the radio show podcasts I listen to (WJEJ's Phone Party, Handel on the Law) are all board audio. However, when podcasts that have board audio are uploaded/streamed live on Youtube, Youtube compresses the audio, so it doesn't sound as good compared to the RSS feed of the same podcast. I don't know if Soundcloud/Spotify/Apple Podcasts/etc. compress audio for podcasts or not.
 
TheBigA said:
What I was talking about is when listeners record off air, as they might do with TV shows.
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Maybe some of the most hardcore radio users have a radio with an SD card to make recordings, but that must be a very, very small niche of radio listeners and how likely would it be for any of them to be in PPM households? It's not 1975 anymore, who is making recordings off the radio?
 
Podcasts are usually recorded from a pre-delay feed that is before processing. There are different forms of software that can do it, but it’s built into most of the bigger automation systems such as Zetta. The first hour of your morning show would show up in the system a minute later. If you were podcasting your morning show or afternoon sports show, you used to have to edit the commercials out. It came in handy for paid programming or when sales wanted an air check of something. Today the segments are automatically made when a commercial block starts.

You’d plug all of your satellite feeds into it as well, that way you could play back a weekend show, the news, sports, or business report on your schedule and not theirs. The newer satellite receivers have eliminated most of that need, they store the shows and play them back whenever you want.

There used to be a system called “digi-logger” that was specifically for your off air feed.
 
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