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More Proof that Tech Standards have totally fallen off the radar

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FreddyE1977

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Was listening to 104.7 in the car this morning. Quinn had a fill-in host.
Apparently he was coming to them via a poorly buffered web stream.
The guy sounded like Mr. Roboto, possibly speaking from the bottom of a
55-gallon drum.

As Casey Stengel once astutely observed, can't anybody here play this game??
 
That's odd. We program Quinn & Rose in the mornings here on WYSL - Brad Sussman was the fill-in host today. Everything here sounded normal. Maybe there's a processing issue on the local WPGB signal and our satellite feed is pre-processing...? ???
 
I like to catch the beginning of George Noory at 1am on 104.7. At least once a week, they'll transmit 2 audio feeds, one from C2CAM and the other the Fox radio news feed, counting down to the next news ujpdate.
 
The PGB feed did sound awful. But, what do you expect? Their focus is on DVE. DVE gets the best equipment and service on everything. Except when they hook up to Billy Gardell. Most often, he sounds like he's overmodulated.

Each of their stations sounds awful.

CC tech support must be on overdrive.
 
Didn't hear this show (we get Q&R on WHLO/640), but Brad's in Cleveland and has filled in quite a bit on that show. (Aside from his talk radio fill-in, he is most known here as a TV weatherman.)'

I presume, unless his talk radio fill-in is so lucrative that he's installed his own home ISDN line, he's doing the Q&R fill-in from WPGB's big brother station in Cleveland, WTAM/1100, and that should pretty much be a rock solid connection...
 
Raymond said:
The PGB feed did sound awful. But, what do you expect? Their focus is on DVE. DVE gets the best equipment and service on everything. Except when they hook up to Billy Gardell. Most often, he sounds like he's overmodulated.

Each of their stations sounds awful.

CC tech support must be on overdrive.
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Many stations with far fewer resources (WJPA, WLSW, and just about any college station around here)
have NEVER sounded this bad.
 
It's pretty prevalent these days. I had to email 104.7's tech dept. this past winter to let them know that Rush's show was skipping all week. They replied back asking whether it was on the FM or stream, to which I thought couldn't they just listen and find out themselves? Ultimately they said that snow must be filling up the dish and they would send someone out the transmitter location to find out. (Sad; detectable and preventable) I also had to let one of the local Forever stations know that their other co-located AM's audio had been bleeding into syndicated programming via sat for months. (They did fix it promptly though) It's not just limited to broadcasting, I find it throughout technical fields; too few people trying to maintain too much and being demoralized in the process.
 
The issue with streaming is something else again. I find I cannot listen to online streams anymore, because the cutting back and forth from the online-only ads to the program and back again has gotten SO rough, it makes it barely worth the effort. Sometimes you will miss entire segments of a show that has already gone out over the broadcast channel.
 
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