-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
Jazz on AM
- Thread starter carmen
- Start date
that 1690 reeading was made halfway between brockton and mattapan. its possible they moved to 1670, or now that im across the river from mattapan is why 1670 is now the stronger of the two.
one of Haiti's classic music groups, Tropicana, named themselves after a club in Habana, Cuba. the proximity to cuba and DR acounts for the significant latin-jazz element of older compas. i swear ive heard them drop PAlmieri/Valdes cuts too
one of Haiti's classic music groups, Tropicana, named themselves after a club in Habana, Cuba. the proximity to cuba and DR acounts for the significant latin-jazz element of older compas. i swear ive heard them drop PAlmieri/Valdes cuts too
based on that i would put 1690 in randolph, 1670 in mattapan, 1620 and 1640 in brockton (or just weak antennas). anad spanish stuff on 10,80 and 1700 in lawrence? 1710 is on air since 1989 from brockton
1620 has multiple 90.1 transmitters, of which the mattapan one is usually off. beacuse normally it's quite weak but when it's on it QRMs WZBC here .. typicall on during weekends, like 91.3.
in downtown roslindale, look to the southwest on a roof behind the greek bakery across from Redd's. does that look like a professional rugedized vertically-polarized broadcast antenna? which stsation is this? RAdioUn?98..9 always blsasts the crap out of my phone reciever around roslindale/hydepark stop on the T
1620 has multiple 90.1 transmitters, of which the mattapan one is usually off. beacuse normally it's quite weak but when it's on it QRMs WZBC here .. typicall on during weekends, like 91.3.
in downtown roslindale, look to the southwest on a roof behind the greek bakery across from Redd's. does that look like a professional rugedized vertically-polarized broadcast antenna? which stsation is this? RAdioUn?98..9 always blsasts the crap out of my phone reciever around roslindale/hydepark stop on the T
Sounds like a few more pirates we can make to walk the plank, and make an example of for illegal operation.Perhaps if Disney jettisons 1260, someone could buy the place and broker the time out to these people. I've never heard any understandable reason for people to do this in the first place.
Would you believe a commercial broadcast AM radio station in Concord NH plays jazz at night ? WKXL AM 1450 does traditional jazz at night. There are a bunch of 1/2 hour shows recorded, and seem to be randomly played after 8 or 9 pm and run all night long, and the music is great ! Sounds interesting in AM, the station has a very, very, very low power FM repeater that maybe someone can hear, though not me..
WDEV 550 AM and an FM simulcast in Waterbury VT, may still do a 'dinner jazz' block, though not sure..
WDEV 550 AM and an FM simulcast in Waterbury VT, may still do a 'dinner jazz' block, though not sure..
Other states like NY have beefed up penalties (yes we're talking a state not the feds) for pirate radio
operators...you'd think a state like MA would collect tax money on ads from pirate stations. I agree,
it should be a crime to advertise on a pirate station...meanwhile local pols treat pirates as if they're
legit and appear at their events. They do serve the community, it's said. But if a station can go on air without a license, then the 11 yr old
next door should be able to drive a car, the guy down the street can set up a doctor's office without
a medical license, and people who don't want to pay taxes can get away with it (and I don't mean
through loopholes).
Why not? Why bother enforcing laws if this is what happens...
operators...you'd think a state like MA would collect tax money on ads from pirate stations. I agree,
it should be a crime to advertise on a pirate station...meanwhile local pols treat pirates as if they're
legit and appear at their events. They do serve the community, it's said. But if a station can go on air without a license, then the 11 yr old
next door should be able to drive a car, the guy down the street can set up a doctor's office without
a medical license, and people who don't want to pay taxes can get away with it (and I don't mean
through loopholes).
Why not? Why bother enforcing laws if this is what happens...
If these pirates actually sell advertising, why are they not on a station like WLYN or WRCA or WNTN or WUNR? Is there not enough ad business to cover the station brokerage fees AND make a few dollars?
I'll say it again, 1260 is a very good 5k daytime (non-directional) and strong in the city and along the coast at night. Someone could do something with it. Either some inner city format, or niche like standards-big band. At the very least, it might be attractive as the strongest signal brokerage station in the area with some clients moving from the other brokerage stations for the extended coverage.
Poor 1510. If only they could shut down that expensive Waltham site, and diplex with 1260. Dan would probably know more about how practical that would be but, presuming they could get out of the Waltham arrangement and just pull down the towers and let the landlord build another building. I'll bet the 50K day signal would be fantastic out of the WMKI site (I remember it was pretty good daytime from a nearby site at Squantum as WMEX), especially if it can be non-D (no WNLC to protect anymore). Nighttime might be just about as good as they got now, maybe better in some coastal areas.
I'll say it again, 1260 is a very good 5k daytime (non-directional) and strong in the city and along the coast at night. Someone could do something with it. Either some inner city format, or niche like standards-big band. At the very least, it might be attractive as the strongest signal brokerage station in the area with some clients moving from the other brokerage stations for the extended coverage.
Poor 1510. If only they could shut down that expensive Waltham site, and diplex with 1260. Dan would probably know more about how practical that would be but, presuming they could get out of the Waltham arrangement and just pull down the towers and let the landlord build another building. I'll bet the 50K day signal would be fantastic out of the WMKI site (I remember it was pretty good daytime from a nearby site at Squantum as WMEX), especially if it can be non-D (no WNLC to protect anymore). Nighttime might be just about as good as they got now, maybe better in some coastal areas.
DG02816 said:
1510 could _PROBABLY_ run 50-kW ND from the WMKI towers, but only during non-critical daylight hours. Absolutely not at night or CH. I'm guessing that an array that used the 1260 towers (probably all three) could permit 50 kW or something close during CH. At night, the power would have to be cut back A LOT with the principal station to be protected being the long-dark 1510 in Sherbrooke QC (CJRS?). Maybe the NIF contour could be made to cover 80% of the population of Quincy, so that the CoL could be changed to Quincy, but nighttime coverage of most of the market would be lost because of the killer first-adjacents, WWKB and WFED (ex-WTOP). I think you'd find that the ratchet rule would force WWZN to run something less than 5 kW (maybe 3 kW or so) if the station were to operate from the WMKI towers at night. The WMKI towers are more or less well positioned for 1510, and of course, they are more than tall enough. But the spacing (120 degrees tower-to-tower at 1260) is kind of far and I suspect that the site is in a wetland, which would preclude adding towers between the existing ones.
Another possible site is the WEZE site at Wellington Circle. It might be possible to add three towers between the existing pair there. That would allow a five-tower in-line configuration--OK for the necessary protections (mainly WLAC and CJRS), but even with 50 kW at night, nighttime coverage of all the parts of the market west of a north-south line through Medford would be just about nil. CH coverage of western parts of the market would also be quite poor.
right, you can get CJLO on an AM Radio until about sunrise. then the local pirates are stronger. or you can stream it...4CX1000A said:
re WHRB - yeah they are decent, but the way their playlist is detemined months in advance and posted as a PDF creeps me out. might as well automate everything aside from Record Hospital and give the kids more time to do homework
carmen said:
Classical music stations generally program months in advance and list the programs in some of printed schedule, especially since the hardcore will make an effort to tune in if they do know that a certain recording or work is going to be played. Many city magazines started as program guides for classical music FM stations back when the majority of stations in the format were still commercial. The exact jazz programming isn't on the schedule PDF, so I would guess that the "Jazz Spectrum" jocks are doing their own programming however they want to do it, although I thought that the Sound Exchange banned any advance posting of records to be played of any kind on the Internet streams, along with the limitations on how much an artist can be played per hour (which may throw a money wrench on streaming the WHRB's non-classical "Orgies").
- Status