It's official..Pittsburgh radio is dead

[TheBigA]

Those examples don't help the image of radio. But there's nothing radio as an industry can do. Even the FCC is limited in how it can deal with a licensee like WAOB. To follow their stated agenda, the FCC would like to encourage more community organizations to become licensees, not less. Even though most of them are awful broadcasters that transmit unlistenable programming that gets next to no audience.

 

[Jkf]

for our next example I would submit to you WPYT-AM 660, a station that is routinely running dead
open carrier whenever I tune by them (except yesterday afternoon, when they were running some
program that was so badly overmodulated I literally could not understand a single word they were
saying). It's as if the transmitter is hooked straight to a PC where someone is always surfing around
looking for the next streaming link or something.

Yes, I do believe that brings WAOB one step up out of the cellar.

WAOB might be higher up in production quality than WPYT. However we should consider that WPYT is a small AM daytimer and its programming is not wasting space on a valuable major FM station for a niche format.

 

[Talk_Dude]

for our next example I would submit to you WPYT-AM 660, a station that is routinely running dead
open carrier whenever I tune by them (except yesterday afternoon, when they were running some
program that was so badly overmodulated I literally could not understand a single word they were
saying). It's as if the transmitter is hooked straight to a PC where someone is always surfing around
looking for the next streaming link or something.

Yes, I do believe that brings WAOB one step up out of the cellar.

WAOB might be higher up in production quality than WPYT. However we should consider that WPYT is a small AM daytimer and its programming is not wasting space on a valuable major FM station for a niche format.

Care to suggest what could be profitably programmed on a "valuable major FM station" that isn't for some niche market?

 

[FreddyE1977]

WPYT's core demographic must be "Adults from the Peanuts Cartoons 25-54"

 

[KeyTimes950]

May I recommend a look at this blog site ...

http://www.tubecityonline.com/almanac/index.html

It touts tomorrow's lecture by Adam Lynch at the McKeesport Heritage Center ... and is a look back at a station that once was quite a voice in the eastern suburbs.

I commend all of that to you.

 

[radiotruth75]

All I have to say is (tongue and cheek)

Where would we be in Pittsburgh radio without 49% computer automation, Ryan Seacrest, Sports, BOB and God....

All we need now is a station that broadcasts LIVE Bingo, and my dreams will have come to fruition

 

[TheBigA]

I hear QVC is starting a radio show.

 

[Talk_Dude]

All I have to say is (tongue and cheek)

Where would we be in Pittsburgh radio without 49% computer automation, Ryan Seacrest, Sports, BOB and God....

All we need now is a station that broadcasts LIVE Bingo, and my dreams will have come to fruition

Cleveland.