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KQBZ and solar flares

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seattlex19

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So AQH, I slept through astronomy, tell me how many months do solar flares generally last at a discrete frequency precisely from 3 to 7 pacific? ;)

Every Leykis hour every day on the Buzz is STILL doing this. Apparently no one <u>AT</u> the Buzz actually listens <u>TO</u> the Buzz? This has been going on every hour of his show - and only his show - for at least a month now, just that I am aware of. Maybe the computer that handles their Leykis feed needs a defrag??

Anyone want to place bets on how many more months the Buzz can broadcast 4 hours of their headliner show every single weekday afternoon before anyone at the station actually notices the show drops out a good 5 or 10 seconds of dialogue at random every 2 or 3 minutes?
 
> So AQH, I slept through astronomy, tell me how many months
> do solar flares generally last at a discrete frequency
> precisely from 3 to 7 pacific? ;)

It could be like Independence Day, where the aliens are using Tom Leykis's show feed to synchronize their forces. With the increasingly bizarre and shocking catastrophes in this world these days, I wouldn't be too surprised.

>
> Every Leykis hour every day on the Buzz is STILL doing this.
> Apparently no one AT the Buzz actually listens TO the Buzz?
> This has been going on every hour of his show - and only his
> show - for at least a month now, just that I am aware of.
> Maybe the computer that handles their Leykis feed needs a
> defrag??
>
> Anyone want to place bets on how many more months the Buzz
> can broadcast 4 hours of their headliner show every single
> weekday afternoon before anyone at the station actually
> notices the show drops out a good 5 or 10 seconds of
> dialogue at random every 2 or 3 minutes.

Or maybe just upgrade the computer from Windows 98 and a dial-up modem. I heard it too and I'm surprised nobody's fixed that by now....


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heh heh heh

>
> It could be like Independence Day, where the aliens are
> using Tom Leykis's show feed to synchronize their forces.
> With the increasingly bizarre and shocking catastrophes in
> this world these days, I wouldn't be too surprised.


Which just happens to coincide with the equinoxes!!! LOL
Perhaps the Cosmic local radio gods just HATE SYNDICATION and do their part to get in it's way twice a year?

They're working on a solar flare that will raise the SWR to 5000:1 and blow up Lykis' transmitters.
 
> So AQH, I slept through astronomy, tell me how many months
> do solar flares generally last at a discrete frequency
> precisely from 3 to 7 pacific? ;)

I do not know exactly how long they are supposed to go on. But I heard we're in the twilight of these occurrances right now.

It doesn't happen to only Tom Leykis (we could only be so lucky). Did you watch Monday Night Football this week? It was happening there as well.


> Every Leykis hour every day on the Buzz is STILL doing this.
> Apparently no one AT the Buzz actually listens TO the Buzz?
> This has been going on every hour of his show - and only his
> show - for at least a month now, just that I am aware of.
> Maybe the computer that handles their Leykis feed needs a
> defrag??

The computers just enable the switching. Maybe Entercom needs new computers, but the cut-outs are from the satellite, not the computers.


> Anyone want to place bets on how many more months the Buzz
> can broadcast 4 hours of their headliner show every single
> weekday afternoon before anyone at the station actually
> notices the show drops out a good 5 or 10 seconds of
> dialogue at random every 2 or 3 minutes?

Maybe there's nothing they can do about it? Ever think of that?
 
> > So AQH, I slept through astronomy, tell me how many months
>
> > do solar flares generally last at a discrete frequency
> > precisely from 3 to 7 pacific? ;)
>
> I do not know exactly how long they are supposed to go on.
> But I heard we're in the twilight of these occurrances right
> now.
>


Why do you comment on things that you have no idea about? Tom has said on air that The Buzz is "dumping" out portions of his show. It's not solar flares, it's the managment types at The buzz freaking out over the FCC. Tom has noted that Seattle is the only market doing it... do solar flares only affect the Satellite feeds to one market? The answer is "no", since you obvioulsy didn't know that.
 
Dumping out?

> Why do you comment on things that you have no idea about?
> Tom has said on air that The Buzz is "dumping" out portions
> of his show. It's not solar flares, it's the managment types
> at The buzz freaking out over the FCC. Tom has noted that
> Seattle is the only market doing it... do solar flares only
> affect the Satellite feeds to one market? The answer is
> "no", since you obvioulsy didn't know that.
>

What are "Portions?" Just curious.
Usually, depending on the quality of the delay being used, there's no dead air in a dump, and not much of a disruption beyond a warbling sound as the bit bucket fills back up again (Dating myself there with that term huh?)

On the high end delays, you don't even hear that.

I understood the original post to say that there was more like the signal was what you hear when you're crossing between Cells on a low quality service phone. it's there..sorta..just scratchy or dead points.
 
> Why do you comment on things that you have no idea about?
> Tom has said on air that The Buzz is "dumping" out portions
> of his show. It's not solar flares, it's the managment types
> at The buzz freaking out over the FCC. Tom has noted that
> Seattle is the only market doing it... do solar flares only
> affect the Satellite feeds to one market? The answer is
> "no", since you obvioulsy didn't know that.

First, I don't listen to Tom Leykis -- I stopped listening at least five years ago, while I currently find trimming my nose hairs more entertaining.

The original poster asked me specifically. Am I supposed to send my reply via Dionne Warwick?

Read the original post again. It said that the audio was being dropped randomly. The original poster eluded the technical aspect of it, nothing about censorship on Entercom's part.

Try thinking before spewing your hate.
 
Re: Dumping out?

> What are "Portions?" Just curious.
> Usually, depending on the quality of the delay being used,
> there's no dead air in a dump, and not much of a disruption
> beyond a warbling sound as the bit bucket fills back up
> again (Dating myself there with that term huh?)
>
> On the high end delays, you don't even hear that.
>
> I understood the original post to say that there was more
> like the signal was what you hear when you're crossing
> between Cells on a low quality service phone. it's
> there..sorta..just scratchy or dead points.

Exactly.

Also when a delay dump is being caught up, a pitched up sound of the programming while the, as you say, bucket gets filled up again.
 
heh heh..from a previous life

>
> Exactly.
>
> Also when a delay dump is being caught up, a pitched up
> sound of the programming while the, as you say, bucket gets
> filled up again.
>

I was a computer engineer back in the days of mostly mainframes when you had to actually learn WHERE the signal CLK08A was going from the timing board, through the various chips, to it's final destination in some J/K Flip Flop somewhere on another board!!! LOL> Thus the term BIT BUCKET. (The term used to describe how a digital delay works)
 
NWdude is WRONG!

Clearly NWDude doesn't want to listen to his own advice as he is the one who has NO IDEA WHAT HE"S TALKING ABOUT!

We are smack dab in the middle of fall sun outages. Westwood One distributes via SES-Americom and the bird is AMC8.
See: http://ses-americom.com for a complete report of times of sun outage periods custom to each city.
Sun outages in the 5PM hour locally (During Leykis and other Westwood One programs)began last Saturday and continue through October 12th with the worst degradation of C band digital streams taking place today through Saturday.
Nice try NWDude, but I really hope you'll keep "your best guess" to yourself when you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.



> > Why do you comment on things that you have no idea about?
> > Tom has said on air that The Buzz is "dumping" out
> portions
> > of his show. It's not solar flares, it's the managment
> types
> > at The buzz freaking out over the FCC. Tom has noted that
> > Seattle is the only market doing it... do solar flares
> only
> > affect the Satellite feeds to one market? The answer is
> > "no", since you obvioulsy didn't know that.
>
 
Re: NWdude is WRONG!

That's why the rest of us were making light of the whole thing.
We ALL know that anything on a satellite, in varying degrees for the few weeks either side of an equinox, will go from scratchy to plain missing during that time the sun sits directly atop the dish on the roof. (I've seen as long as 4 minutes a few years back but that's an anomoly not the norm)
 
Thanks for your replies but...

... WHATEVER it is, it is NOT any sort of deliberate editing of the material. I know this for the following two reasons:

* It happens completely at random, things he says that you might expect would get dumped by lawsuit-fighting censors go right on the air, and five seconds later, something like "today and the" gets cut from the middle of a sentence

* It also happens during some commercials that are airing during his show, with equally random placement. Now they would not be editing *half* an innocuous sentence out of a *commercial* on purpose.

About the sound itself, it is not "dead air". It sounds pretty much exactly as if someone hit the dump delay, you know, how a talker could be mid sentence and right in the middle of a word the broadcast literally just skips ahead a few seconds and is butted immediately up against whatever half of whatever word seconds later that was being spoken... a bit like listening to a skipping cd

That was why, at first, I thought too that it had to be some kind of insanely hyperparanoid editing of the content possibly due to the ongoing legal situation at the Buzz, but no, it only takes listening to the "dumps" a few times to realize that it seems to happen completely at random, as nothing of any "legal liability" significance was dumped, just "can't understand the dialogue now" significance.

When I posted to AQH I was actually being a bit rhetorical because I did not honestly think solar flaring could effect every 3 or 4 minutes of a feed every hour of every day for months on end -?? Hey what the hell do I know? I am just a listener, growing very tired of listening to sentences missing 3 and 4 words at random... but then again, 98.9 Smooth Jazz just doesn't get my road rage commute driving going quite like Leykis... ;)

Matter of fact, with all these crap dropouts, I can't even understand half the show, so I'm driving even more pissed off!
 
Re: Thanks for your replies but...

> ... WHATEVER it is, it is NOT any sort of deliberate editing
> of the material. I know this for the following two reasons:


Listen... the original question here was wether or not The Buzz is censoring the Tom Leykis show... and the answer has been well proven to be: Yes! Tom has mentioned that the Buzz is doing this to him on air on several occasions. So feel free to keep debating solar flares and how strange it is that they seem to always affect Tom when he talks about sex. The next time a caller asks to be "taken out with a screaming orgasm"... wait, because a "solar flare" will strike the market of Seattle right after that! idiots...
 
-- IDIOT?

> Listen... the original question here was wether or not The
> Buzz is censoring the Tom Leykis show... and the answer has
> been well proven to be: Yes!

Read again and you will see that I was NOT asking about whether the show was being censored.

> Tom has mentioned that the Buzz
> is doing this to him on air on several occasions.

Whether they are or not, that is NOT the phenomenon that I am describing. Read it AGAIN, carefully...

> So feel
> free to keep debating solar flares and how strange it is
> that they seem to always affect Tom when he talks about sex.

The "solar flares" reference (for my part of it anyway) was a JOKE, and if you listen you will discover it is not happening when Tom says anything objectionable. It is happening completely at random. Or do you think the Buzz would allow him to talk about sex but not use "I" "me" and "we" in sentences? Or that they really do want to edit random passages out of national commercials, only between 3 and 7?

> The next time a caller asks to be "taken out with a
> screaming orgasm"... wait, because a "solar flare" will
> strike the market of Seattle right after that! idiots...

If you listen before you judge (maybe asking too much, I know) YOU will find that they allow the screaming orgasm to air, and ten seconds later when Tom says, "do you care?" that THAT (or something equally innocuous) gets dropped for no apparent reason. You're the idiot homey, but not so much for commenting on that which you do not understand - but for name calling at the same time (?!)
 
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