Sound is very compressed. Like listening to satellite radio.
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Last Day for Talk 106.7--May 31
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I was listening online so I was wondering if they had aired the new legal ID...the last I heard online was from the Kimmer.
Sounds just like the frickin' Fish. All the women want to sound like Amy Grant or Leigh Nash and all the guys want to sound like Scott Stapp.
WYAY was always highly compressed - especially for talk radio. When they carried the Braves games, the crowd noise sounded like a mixture of a swarm of bees and high-speed electric motors - very unnatural.
(I guess I'm changing my presets now. I like Christian music, but can't stand the heavy breathing - no power there.)
That doesn't make much sense.
Cumulus is the company who purchased WFME and flipped it to Country!
Also, the current day WNSH (94.7 Nash FM) is largely a non-factor in the NYC market when it comes to ad revenue.
WPLJ's billing has underperformed for a variety of reasons:
- Clear lack of station direction over the past decade;
- Emergence of new competition from WNEW-FM and, for a time, 92.3;
- Cumulus lacking a strong cluster of stations in the New York City market;
- Cumulus under Lew & John Dickey having a terrible sales culture, causing good salespeople to bolt.
The amazing thing was one of the Dickey’s (I forgot which one) was able to raise millions for a fund he was suppose to invest and run media companies. I can only guess that the investors felt that he wouldn’t make the same mistakes again.
The same could be said about WPLJ. My point is that by flipping WPLJ, it replaces the format lost when WFME flipped to country.
Well so far, it seems positive and encouraging.
The talk on WSBB is better, but the best was listening to talk or Braves games on a Jacor station (WGST-FM, Peach, 96 Rock, etc.). Very natural sounding.
Compression does weird things to random whitish noise like crowd noise.
The original Cumulus was very successful, as was the original Citadel. The downfall for both of them was buying ABC Radio.
The former WFME certainly offered Christian programming, but it was not a Christian AC format like K-Love is. WFME was a Christian teaching & preaching station first & foremost.
The programming on K-Love is very different from what WFME offered. To say one is a substitute for the other is not an accurate statement, IMO.
You're picking nits. You're looking at the differences and ignoring the similarities.
Being that WSB-FM HD2 has been intermittent with it's encoding for MONTHS and no one has fixed it, other than me griping about it on this forum, HD radio is a non-factor for most people. As much as I love it, go to Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy or even Amazon and try to buy a CURRENT HD receiver. Sure, there are a few models like the Sangean HDR-16 (paid $99 for mine), and the high end Day-Sequerra tuners, but until consumers see the HD chipsets in $15 clock radios and Bluetooth speakers, it's not even on their radar.
Automakers are a day late/dollar short. Most people buying cars aren't looking for HD tuners, they want WiFi/LTE on board, Bluetooth and app support is mandatory these days! I see 106.7 didn't turn on the HD (which before they flipped to talk, they had a good jazz station on their HD-2).
It looks to me like the only thing HD radio is used for in this market is to feed analog translators.
I'm a big klove supporter but hate that Atlanta had to loose a God talk channel for some out of state klove syndication....Atlanta is not like macon where the Christian music lacks anything....Atlanta hay joy FM and the fish so Atlanta didn't need another Christian station.....yes I am a Christian its just we didn't need to loose talk 106.7
Nothing is permanent except death.
Listened to K-Love yesterday PM...are they still using WYAY's airchain settings? It doesn't sound optimized for music (vs. talk). Dynamic range was compressed (loud to louder) and very heavy on the midrange with the EQ. Also got a lot of spit when usually I get a crystal-clear signal up on Ptree Ridge, like they were running an aux or reduced power.
Fish isn't the best with their on-air sound, but WAKL sounds horrid. Methinks they're still using settings optimized for talk. Worse than satellite, except for satellite's digital bandwidth compression artifacts.
Plus Voltair for talk.
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106.7 KLove sounds rough on my HD radio as well since they are not broadcasting in HD as I hope they will soon. The RDS is not even on so I assume that will be fixed soon. I only enjoyed the Kimmer show so I don't remember if the RDS was working for Talk 106.7fm. 104.7 and 93.3 sound better in HD but 106.7 needs some work. I guess the engineers will fix that because Im sure 106.7 Atlanta is important to klove to the point they have that 92.3 translator to help in town.
Cumulus (the Dickeys) saw how Citadel went down the tubes with the old ABC stations. The old ABC stations would have been wonderful additions to a cluster but there are very few successful one or two signal clusters in the big markets.
IMHO: good CEO's do not make a single transaction or gamble that can sent a company into bankruptcy.
Easy for you to say. Regent had the same problem when it bought a bunch of CBS stations.
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