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Interesting Sound Tonight

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I'm sitting here listening to the State of the Union Address on KTBB/600 Tyler. At home, we're still somewhat in their nighttime pattern, but I'm hearing another station on co-channel that's about 1-1.5 seconds behind. Makes him sound like he's in a stadium with massive delay.

I know there will be some political ranting, so I'll go put my asbestos suit on now.....


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> I'm sitting here listening to the State of the Union Address
> on KTBB/600 Tyler. At home, we're still somewhat in their
> nighttime pattern, but I'm hearing another station on
> co-channel that's about 1-1.5 seconds behind. Makes him
> sound like he's in a stadium with massive delay.
>
> I know there will be some political ranting, so I'll go put
> my asbestos suit on now.....
>

I bet you were getting AM 600 out of Memphis...... Maybe they "forgot" to go to their night pattern....
 
> > I'm sitting here listening to the State of the Union
> Address
> > on KTBB/600 Tyler. At home, we're still somewhat in their
> > nighttime pattern, but I'm hearing another station on
> > co-channel that's about 1-1.5 seconds behind. Makes him
> > sound like he's in a stadium with massive delay.
> >
> > I know there will be some political ranting, so I'll go
> put
> > my asbestos suit on now.....
> >
>
> I bet you were getting AM 600 out of Memphis...... Maybe
> they "forgot" to go to their night pattern....
>


I suspected it was probably Memphis I was hearing. I looked online to see who else was on 600AM and figured the closest to me was the one I was hearing.

I have heard them briefly when KTBB changes to their day pattern.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > > I'm sitting here listening to the State of the Union
> > Address
> > > on KTBB/600 Tyler. At home, we're still somewhat in
> their
> > > nighttime pattern, but I'm hearing another station on
> > > co-channel that's about 1-1.5 seconds behind. Makes him
> > > sound like he's in a stadium with massive delay.

Curious. At the beginning of the TV version, there was a very noticeable delay with Bush's voice on Ch 19-DT. At first the lip sync was way off, and then there were a couple of minutes of vocal doubling. One voice was close to being in sync, the other audio track was a good 1-2 seconds off. It sounded like a PA in Grand Central Station. This cleared up eventually, but never really synched with the picture. I just figured it was a problem with the audio in the DT feed. Weird audio problems happen all the time in the land of HDTV.

Maybe KTBB was taking their feed off of a TV?

Chuck
 
> > > > I'm sitting here listening to the State of the Union
> > > Address
> > > > on KTBB/600 Tyler. At home, we're still somewhat in
> > their
> > > > nighttime pattern, but I'm hearing another station on
> > > > co-channel that's about 1-1.5 seconds behind. Makes
> him
> > > > sound like he's in a stadium with massive delay.
>
> Curious. At the beginning of the TV version, there was a
> very noticeable delay with Bush's voice on Ch 19-DT. At
> first the lip sync was way off, and then there were a couple
> of minutes of vocal doubling. One voice was close to being
> in sync, the other audio track was a good 1-2 seconds off.
> It sounded like a PA in Grand Central Station. This cleared
> up eventually, but never really synched with the picture. I
> just figured it was a problem with the audio in the DT feed.
> Weird audio problems happen all the time in the land of
> HDTV.
>
> Maybe KTBB was taking their feed off of a TV?
>
> Chuck
>



Probably the pool feed, just like everyone else. I didn't think about that possibility...but of course not being in front of the TV at the time and not seeing what you're talking about would've kept that thought from entering my mind.

I was thinking it was co-channel because of the fact that I'd heard another news/talk station while 'BB changes to daytime pattern.



BTW...saw a Chad Wes Dean sign in front of the KWRD studios. Wonder who put it there? And wonder if that chunk of land will ever talk again???<P ID="signature">______________
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> BTW...saw a Chad Wes Dean sign in front of the KWRD studios.
> Wonder who put it there? And wonder if that chunk of land
> will ever talk again???
>

I hope so. It's been off the air for a long time. It would seem that with each day, the chances of a return to the air would get smaller and smaller. Several people have told me that they've attempted to purchase it, but the price was either unreasonable or the current owner expressed no interest in selling.

Back to Wed Dean, am I correct in thinking that Wed Dean was also "Ranger Wes" on the long ago defunct KTVE Kilgore-Longview TV station?

I have some pictures of him on one of my web pages. http://www.chalkhillmedia.org/Museum/KTVE.htm

Chuck
 
> BTW...saw a Chad Wes Dean sign in front of the KWRD studios.
> Wonder who put it there? And wonder if that chunk of land
> will ever talk again???
>
This just in. Rumor has it that KWRD has been sold to a gentleman from Chapel Hill (near Henderson). If it's true, that's good news for the folks in Henderson.

Maybe that's why the sign appeared. Perhaps they are clearing junk out from the building. The first thing they have to do is figure out what burned up in the transmitter and get that repaired or replaced. Bringing everything back to good operational condition should be quite an adventure.
 
> > BTW...saw a Chad Wes Dean sign in front of the KWRD
> studios.
> > Wonder who put it there? And wonder if that chunk of land
> > will ever talk again???
> >
>
> I hope so. It's been off the air for a long time. It would
> seem that with each day, the chances of a return to the air
> would get smaller and smaller. Several people have told me
> that they've attempted to purchase it, but the price was
> either unreasonable or the current owner expressed no
> interest in selling.
>
> Back to Wed Dean, am I correct in thinking that Wed Dean was
> also "Ranger Wes" on the long ago defunct KTVE
> Kilgore-Longview TV station?
>
> I have some pictures of him on one of my web pages.
> http://www.chalkhillmedia.org/Museum/KTVE.htm
>
> Chuck
>
Wes Dean was Ranger Wes. Return with us to those thrilling days of yester year. Ho Yo Silver--Awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Channel 32 was a fascinating foray into East Texas UHF television development. Television repair shops made a small fortune putting up "bow tie" antennas so viewers in the area could see the station. Channel 7 was the alternative (although there was another UHF station in Tyler and some viewers could receive Channel 12 out of Shreveport), and to capture snowy signals from Dallas a few people put antenna installations on tall home made antenna supports and a few even mounted their "aerials" on oil derricks, 94 feet tall, and used a mile (or so it seemed) of 300 ohm lead line into the house.
 
> > BTW...saw a Chad Wes Dean sign in front of the KWRD
> studios.
> > Wonder who put it there? And wonder if that chunk of land
> > will ever talk again???
> >
> This just in. Rumor has it that KWRD has been sold to a
> gentleman from Chapel Hill (near Henderson). If it's true,
> that's good news for the folks in Henderson.
>
> Maybe that's why the sign appeared. Perhaps they are
> clearing junk out from the building. The first thing they
> have to do is figure out what burned up in the transmitter
> and get that repaired or replaced. Bringing everything back
> to good operational condition should be quite an adventure.
>

Should that rumor become a reality, then it would be great for KWRD to restore the order of operation that was massively "damned over" by Russell. Whatever they need to do, serve Rusk County and bring back high school football, not only in Henderson but all of Rusk County, too.

Should they decide on going either southern gospel or go with the original formula Wes Dean did, more power to 'em! I wish then that new owner the best.

Now, if Russell can sell me KZEY and KOFY (if the FCC window opens up for the two deleted frequencies), it better be more than reasonable. I have plans for both of those stations give or take $100,000 each (LOL). <P ID="signature">______________
MRS Ventures: Wasted broadcast radio technology since 1993.</P>
 
> Channel 32 was a fascinating foray into East Texas UHF
> television development. Television repair shops made a
> small fortune putting up "bow tie" antennas so viewers in
> the area could see the station. Channel 7 was the
> alternative (although there was another UHF station in Tyler
> and some viewers could receive Channel 12 out of
> Shreveport), and to capture snowy signals from Dallas a few
> people put antenna installations on tall home made antenna
> supports and a few even mounted their "aerials" on oil
> derricks, 94 feet tall, and used a mile (or so it seemed) of
> 300 ohm lead line into the house.

I just wonder why channel 32 couldnt get permission from the FCC to move to the VHF band? Like many early FM stations, the pioneering UHF stations were doomed from the start.

Glad to hear KWRD will be sold soon - it's too good of a facility in a town that needs a local radio station. I hope KZEY/KOFY will be sold next.
 
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