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Live 105: What A Shame

BossRadioDJ

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What a shame. The last broadcast for Howard Stern on Live 105 this morning, and they couldn't come up with CDs that wouldn't skip throughout Robin and Howard's speeches.

You think that they could have prepared just a little better, but this is embarrassing. The fans that stuck with this station through the Stern Era deserved better. You could have spent an extra buck on some quality discs, but no.

Shame on you.

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> What a shame. The last broadcast for Howard Stern on Live
> 105 this morning, and they couldn't come up with CDs that
> wouldn't skip throughout Robin and Howard's speeches.
>
> You think that they could have prepared just a little
> better, but this is embarrassing. The fans that stuck with
> this station through the Stern Era deserved better. You
> could have spent an extra buck on some quality discs, but
> no.
>
> Shame on you.
>
> DJ
>
From reading the mailbag at DCRTV.com, it seems like they had the same problem there during the speaches, so it sound like it might have been the dump button more than KITS cd's.
 
> What a shame. The last broadcast for Howard Stern on Live
> 105 this morning, and they couldn't come up with CDs that
> wouldn't skip throughout Robin and Howard's speeches.
>
> You think that they could have prepared just a little
> better, but this is embarrassing. The fans that stuck with
> this station through the Stern Era deserved better. You
> could have spent an extra buck on some quality discs, but
> no.
>
> Shame on you.
>
> DJ
>

Wow, that is a pretty big screw up! 93.7 here in Sacatomatoes aired the show as well. I only heard about 10 minutes of it, but it sounded like a really nice tribute.

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> From reading the mailbag at DCRTV.com, it seems like they
> had the same problem there during the speaches, so it sound
> like it might have been the dump button more than KITS cd's.
>

Good point!

Live might have had there own dump button in use too, adding to the skipping effect.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > From reading the mailbag at DCRTV.com, it seems like they
> > had the same problem there during the speaches, so it
> sound
> > like it might have been the dump button more than KITS
> cd's.
> >
>
> Good point!
>
> Live might have had there own dump button in use too, adding
> to the skipping effect.
>

fairly obvious it was the dump button. unfortunate.
 
> Live might have had there own dump button in use too, adding
> to the skipping effect.


You're guessing, and you're wrong. This was good old CD-type stutter, happening in rat-a-tat fashion. Howard would say "Over here is my sister -- and over the years -- the sun is coming out..."

Which would tell me that somebody decided to (1) bleep out the name of Howard's sister, (2) a reference to one of the show writers and (3) a comment about the weather, all of which sound patently offensive.

Meanwhile, Daniel Carver went into a rant that included numerous shouts of the N-word, you could hear people yell the F-word during Tom Chiusano's speech, and Artie Lange's rant was left intact. Howard didn't swear, never used the term "Sirius" and wasn't bleeped when he talked about farting or other bodily functions.

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> > From reading the mailbag at DCRTV.com, it seems like they
> > had the same problem there during the speaches, so it
> sound
> > like it might have been the dump button more than KITS
> cd's.
> >
>
> Good point!
>
> Live might have had there own dump button in use too, adding
> to the skipping effect.
>
The one thing I have to credit KITS for is that they never did use their own dump button on Stern.

I have heard several other stations around the country that treated Stern like the next team Terrell Ownens is going to play for. Bring us the numbers, don't f up. If you do, you are gone.

Live never edited the show, never tried to do funny bits on their own during the commercials, etc. They just ran the show. I always appreciated that.
 
> You're guessing, and you're wrong. This was good old CD-type
> stutter, happening in rat-a-tat fashion. Howard would say
> "Over here is my sister -- and over the years -- the sun is
> coming out..."
>
> Which would tell me that somebody decided to (1) bleep out
> the name of Howard's sister, (2) a reference to one of the
> show writers and (3) a comment about the weather, all of
> which sound patently offensive.
>
> Meanwhile, Daniel Carver went into a rant that included
> numerous shouts of the N-word, you could hear people yell
> the F-word during Tom Chiusano's speech, and Artie Lange's
> rant was left intact. Howard didn't swear, never used the
> term "Sirius" and wasn't bleeped when he talked about
> farting or other bodily functions.
>
> DJ

DJ,

Ok, I hear ya, good point. I'm just surprised to hear that KITS would use CD or even mini CD to capture the Stern show for playback. Most stations use some type of digital reel to reel hard drive based recorder.

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I don't want to take away from your fun if you're just trying to bash a radio station because you hate them....

BUT

Even here in Chicago on WCKG there was the same problem. It's not CDs. WCKG is an Infinity station as well, and they don't DUMP on Howard locally, but there were lots of "dumps" and that "skipping" sound through the broadcast here as well.

I'm willing to bet money that it wasn't the local station there in SF or here, but Infinity corporate making that happen with a series of button pushing (dumping). A shame, but at this point if you're them they're thinking better safe than sorry.
 
Berd wrote:

> I don't want to take away from your fun if you're just
> trying to bash a radio station because you hate them....
>
> BUT
>
> Even here in Chicago on WCKG there was the same problem.
> It's not CDs. WCKG is an Infinity station as well, and they
> don't DUMP on Howard locally, but there were lots of "dumps"
> and that "skipping" sound through the broadcast here as
> well.


Berd,

How did you make the leap from me complaining about a single broadcast to mean that I hate the station? Live 105 is one of the few corporate radio stations that I actually listen to these days.

That being said, it sounds like the satellite feed from New York may have been the source of the audio errors, since the same "skipping" problem was reported in other markets.

My initial reaction was that the problem was CD-related because (1) that was exactly what it sounded like, and (2) Greg Gorey (sp?) at Live 105 had mentioned on several occasions that the Stern show was recorded onto CD and re-broadcast by the station. This came up once because a show segment ran long and the CD maxed out...

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BossRadioDJ said:
What a shame. The last broadcast for Howard Stern on Live 105 this morning, and they couldn't come up with CDs that wouldn't skip throughout Robin and Howard's speeches.

You think that they could have prepared just a little better, but this is embarrassing. The fans that stuck with this station through the Stern Era deserved better. You could have spent an extra buck on some quality discs, but no.

Shame on you.

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we didnt usually use cds for stern, but that particular show however.. the server had crashed that morning and the show would not load into the database ... if a show was to air at all it had to be on CD.... sorry if it skipped, it was most likely the crap cd player that skips on almost everything....
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we didnt usually use cds for stern, but that particular show however.. the server had crashed that morning and the show would not load into the database ... if a show was to air at all it had to be on CD.... sorry if it skipped, it was most likely the crap cd player that skips on almost everything....also.... that was the producers last day. if you knew it was your last day, would you care??????????????
 
Leeanne said:
> What a shame. The last broadcast for Howard Stern on Live 105 this morning...

we didnt usually use cds for stern, but that particular show however.. the server had crashed that morning
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Wow. The Doppler Effect as it pertains to posts on Radio-Info.com. As timely as today's headlines!

Could somebody go back to my post from last September about KEAR/106.9 and respond regarding when they think Infinity will take over the station, and what the format will be?

D.J.

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Hey, they're just discussing the only thing that's happened at Live 105 since December.
 
She left? Where did she go? No one had any post about it to my knowledge when it happened...
 
BossRadioDJ said:
Leeanne said:
> What a shame. The last broadcast for Howard Stern on Live 105 this morning...

we didnt usually use cds for stern, but that particular show however.. the server had crashed that morning
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Wow. The Doppler Effect as it pertains to posts on Radio-Info.com. As timely as today's headlines!

Could somebody go back to my post from last September about KEAR/106.9 and respond regarding when they think Infinity will take over the station, and what the format will be?

D.J.

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"Beyond AM ... Beyond FM ... It's BM!"
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exxcccuuuuse me A-hole, i just joined this thing and felt the need to defend myself. i know its a bit old, but no one else responded......
 
Leeanne blathered:

exxcccuuuuse me A-hole, i just joined this thing and felt the need to defend myself. i know its a bit old, but no one else responded......
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That's MISTER A-hole to you, sweetheart. :-*

And you shouldn't have felt the need to defend yourself. We've moved on.

But I enjoyed the "exxcccuuuuse me" reference. Straight out of SNL, Circa 1979. Again, as timely as last month's headlines!

D.J.
 
What, Ally leaving after 8 years in middays doesn't count?

yeah, it might. when did she leave?
 
Word Life said:
She left? Where did she go? No one had any post about it to my knowledge when it happened...
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Ally left in mid-May. She and her husband bought a farm outside of Pittsburgh. Literally -- this is not a euphemism for something bad happening to them.

Kat from Channel 104-9 joined Live 105 to help out.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
Leeanne blathered:

exxcccuuuuse me A-hole, i just joined this thing and felt the need to defend myself. i know its a bit old, but no one else responded......
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That's MISTER A-hole to you, sweetheart. :-*

And you shouldn't have felt the need to defend yourself. We've moved on.

But I enjoyed the "exxcccuuuuse me" reference. Straight out of SNL, Circa 1979. Again, as timely as last month's headlines!

D.J.
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yup circa 1979 when SNL was funny....
if i had been on this board when that was originally posted i would have responded then, sorry for not knowing this existed till now.
 
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