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KPOO off the air again

yeoldeschool said:
Marketing Failures 101: naming yourself poo, and enticing customers to advertise you on the rear end of anything...
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This guy loves the station:
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rustyhodge said:
I understand short for K-POOR as it's known as Poor People Radio
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Lorenzo Milam wrote about it on page 137 of Sex and Broadcasting, and listed it along with several other community broadcasters of the time (1975) on page 229, where he referred to it as Poor Peoples Radio. It was at 532 Natoma in those days.
 
There's a community broadcaster in Portland, OR. - KBOO. The call letters came about from a strain of marijuana called 'Berkeley Boo'. It should be noted the station was started by a group of hippie activists.
 
Mark Roberts said:
I heard that this weekend, even accounting for reception difficulties where I was. The fluctuation was particularly weird.
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Some kind of cheap limiter, perhaps? It's most obvious when music is playing. Also, the distortion still happens when someone is live-on-mic in-studio. Some DJs are better at backing off the mic than others.
 
RadioJunkieMike said:
So it's now 2 weeks since they got their transmitter back on-line, but the over-the air audio remains painfully distorted. The pre-recorded/recycled stuff, of which there is a lot (like Sat nite's weekly JJ reruns) isn't too bad, but anytime someone is live-on-mic in the studio, it's unlistenable. Don't know how much longer they can go on like this.
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Maybe it's their processor, or lack there of...
 
Odd thing on KPOO last nite: JJ's Sat nite 4-hour Vintage Soul block has been reruns from the archives for about a year now, but last weekend he was in-studio to do the show live -- apparently as a nod to the kickoff of their annual Fall fund-raising campaign. Last nite, he started the show live at 10 pm, but about 20 minutes into the broadcast he suddenly just... disappeared, and we got automated soul music for the rest of the time. Not sure what happened, but hoping he's OK. :)
 
RadioJunkieMike said:
Odd thing on KPOO last nite: JJ's Sat nite 4-hour Vintage Soul block has been reruns from the archives for about a year now, but last weekend he was in-studio to do the show live -- apparently as a nod to the kickoff of their annual Fall fund-raising campaign. Last nite, he started the show live at 10 pm, but about 20 minutes into the broadcast he suddenly just... disappeared, and we got automated soul music for the rest of the time. Not sure what happened, but hoping he's OK. :)
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Maybe he needed to do what the call letters say.
 
Assuming the heavy rain (and sleet!) are the culprits, but KPOO's over-the-air signal has been down for several hours as of 8pm. They are streaming, however. Also, DJ Lamont's sick leave is now in its 6th or 7th week, but at least we're getting a rerun this time.
 
RadioJunkieMike said:
Assuming the heavy rain (and sleet!) are the culprits, but KPOO's over-the-air signal has been down for several hours as of 8pm. They are streaming, however. Also, DJ Lamont's sick leave is now in its 6th or 7th week, but at least we're getting a rerun this time.
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UPDATE: as of this afternoon (Thur 2/19) the OTA signal is still dead. Was hoping Johnny Brooklyn would have an explanation as to what's up, but it's just automated oldies on the stream.
 
RadioJunkieMike said:
Early in June, KPOO's over-the air signal started sounding crappy -- there was a buzz under everything that wouldn't go away, and things were often a tad distorted. When that was still going on a month later, a friend emailed JJ to ask what was up, and he was told it would be fixed "next week". It wasn't, and this week (2 months after the original problem surfaced) things sounded markedly worse, and the station was basically unlistenable. For the last couple of days, all that's been heard has been static. (The station can still be heard clearly on its internet stream, tho I suspect they have older listeners who aren't tech-savvy.)
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It sounded like poo lol
 
Moving away from the double entendre posts, does anyone have an explanation for such a considerable time off the air in a major market?
 


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