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Multcultural Broad.: Music of your life overnights?

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

http://www.radio-info.com/news/musi...n-top-20-market-stations-of-multicultural-gro

>>The deal between Marc Angell-run Music of Your Life and Multicultural Broadcasting begins February 1, with overnight clearances on stations in San Francisco, Boston, Miami and Seattle.

I believe Multicultural owns WAZN 1470 Watertown and WLYN 1360 Lynn

Remember Music of Your Life? Those bumper stickers for what was then WXKS (AM) 1430, with the "Your"
word being a heart?
In the early 80s I used to read an alternative rock fanzine out of Columbus OH called the Offense. Even
though the publisher mostly talked about alt-rock he did express an interest in Sinatra but jokingly
referred to what was then "WCOL-AM"* as "The Music of Your Death" :)

*--Wikipedia: "a series of management and airstaff changeovers followed in the early 80's including a brief switch to middle of the road-styled adult standards"
 
from Music of Your Life's facebook:
>>Starting Feb. 1 Music of Your Life will begin airing overnights on MRBI's stations in Los Angeles, Seattle, Miami, Boston and San Francisco, with additional stations to follow. With the addition of the MRBI stations, Music of Your Life will have 19 affiliates in the top-20 markets, which already includes New York City.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Music-of-Your-Life/20126494489
(may need to be a facebook member to see)
 
WAZN and the Music of Your Life

I was going to wait several days, before officially announcing anything, but, whatever...

Some of the MRBI company stations will be running Music of Your Life. I am not sure of the
exact start date yet (logistics), but it should be soon. Here in the Boston area, WAZN 1470 will be
picking up MOYL during evening/nighttime, and weekend hours. The Russian programming
currently heard on WAZN will not be affected. WLYN 1360 will maintain its current schedule
(Brazilian Portuguese).
 
MOYL is supposed to run on WAZN 1470 from 6:00PM to 6:00AM. I don't know whether the schedule is supposed to include weekends. The first day (Wednesday 2/1) the MOYL programming ended around midnight (not sure of the exact time) and was followed by an open carrier until the 6:00AM start of the Russian programming from Davidzon Media. I believe WAZN's MOYL programming is a rebroadcast of a Web stream, though I have not tried to find MOYL on the Web.

I would say that the music is close to what was heard on WBOQ up to maybe four or five years ago, before the switch the "Good Time Favorites." I had expected the music from the satellite delivered MOYL that appeared on AM 1430 before it flipped to Spanish. Those tracks had gotten so familiar they had long ago ceased to be any fun to listen to. Of course, if the MOYL stream that WAZN is carrying isn't routinely pruned and updated, it will become as tedious as the old satellite-delivered MOYL.

Anyhow, I hope MRBI can straighten out whatever difficulty resulted in the six or so hours of open carrier on MOYL's debut night on WAZN.

Oh, and to the female announcer with the long southern European surname who was on this evening, the name of the artist who performed the song "Late, Late Show" is Dakota Staton (surname contains only one letter N and it's the last letter--NOT Dakota StaNton). So much for the knowledgeable personalities.

Also, the voice-tracking is OLD. Generally makes no difference, but when the announcer says it's warm outside because it's August, when it's actually February, it doesn't do anything good for the credibility of what we're listening to.
 
Last night (Feb 3) between 1 AM and 4 AM, I periodically checked them out, while I was in Cambridge. They were playing non-English songs. Prior to midnight (Feb 2) it was MOYL. Somehow, it didn't grab me.
 
I am just back from a week's vacation. (man does not live by
radio alone!) The MOYL feed has had some issues at the beginning.
Hopefully, these should be resolved shortly. It is an engineering matter
involved...
 
WAZN-- Music of Your Life

The issues with the MOYL feed to WAZN have now been resolved.
Special thanks go out to our engineer Grady Moates - you da man!

MOYL is now running on WAZN M-F 6pm-6am, and all day and night on Sat. and Sun.
(except during Public Affairs hours)
 
Re: WAZN-- Music of Your Life

WLYNgm said:
The issues with the MOYL feed to WAZN have now been resolved.
Special thanks go out to our engineer Grady Moates - you da man!

MOYL is now running on WAZN M-F 6pm-6am, and all day and night on Sat. and Sun.
(except during Public Affairs hours)
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My father used to listen to MOYL on a station in Florida, (WDUV I think). Is it still music from the 40's and 50's? I am surprised that the radio industry serves people in their 80's and 90's.
 
Probably more recent like stuff from 60s, 70s, 80s. You would be able to find 40s music on, say,
the 40s on 4 channel on XM, but these days I'd think MOYL is a bit more recent than that. Maybe some 50s.
(The MOYL website's facebook says "Artist of the week: Rod Stewart")
 
raccoonradio said:
(The MOYL website's facebook says "Artist of the week: Rod Stewart")
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I've stayed away from Rod Stewart's standards renditions. He butchers them! JIB/JTO heavy on Linda Ronstadt's fine versions though.
 
Music of Your Life

From what I have heard so far -
Sinead O'Connor singing a "standard" - and doing a fine job at it, I might add!
Fleetwood Mac
Olivia Newton John
etc... in addition to what one might expect.

The format is new for us - it will take a while to see what they come up with,
and how it is received by the listening public. One thing is for sure -
the format is not overly represented - at least not in Boston...Time will tell...
 
Re: WAZN-- Music of Your Life

WLYNgm said:
The issues with the MOYL feed to WAZN have now been resolved.
Special thanks go out to our engineer Grady Moates - you da man!

MOYL is now running on WAZN M-F 6pm-6am, and all day and night on Sat. and Sun.
(except during Public Affairs hours)
Click to expand...

Well, Grady is the master of loud, clean audio on AM. In fact, he named his company Loud and Clean. But I suspect WAZN's current technical problems are outside of Grady's sphere of control. My guess is that the audio stream is corrupted WAY before it reaches Boston! MOYL sounded WAY, WAY overmodulated and horribly distorted (clipped on peaks) last night for the several hours I had it on. It finally got so annoying that I had to shut it off; it was actually painful to listen to.

Along the way, though, there was one cut that sounded mis-phased. IIRC, it was Dinah Washington's "I Remember You". The L and R audio appeared to be out of phase, cancelling out the voice, and making the voice essentially impossible to hear. But this did not affect other cuts, so that problem is probably in the source material--not a problem at WAZN and probably not even a problem with the setup at whichever station is sourcing the audio stream. The clipping, however, affected everything except the local IDs, so it is probably a problem at the station that sources the stream.

Jeff, if you are on the stick, you will pass this message along to Grady and ask him figure out what's going on. He can't be happy being associated with audio that sounds that bad. And I am absolutely positive that if he could fix it, he would. But as I said, I believe the problem is elsewhere on your network. Maybe, just by listening, he can figure out what the problem is and can tell whoever controls the piece of the network where the problem begins what must be done to fix it.
 
raccoonradio said:
Probably more recent like stuff from 60s, 70s, 80s. You would be able to find 40s music on, say,
the 40s on 4 channel on XM, but these days I'd think MOYL is a bit more recent than that. Maybe some 50s.
(The MOYL website's facebook says "Artist of the week: Rod Stewart")
Click to expand...

It all sounds like oldies to me. I would prefer listening to an "Oldies" station rather than a "Music of Your Life". It might just be branding but MOYL makes me feel as old as I am!
 
MOYL feed

The MOYL feed (from NY) comes in here really hot, level-wise.
I am tweaking the processing, so hopefully will sound
a bit better. As with any new venture, it is a learning curve...
 
Plenty of people do. Music that was originally recorded in
mono rarely finds a place on FM radio anymore. For
those who always seem to be whining about the lack of diversity
in formats, here is an alternative! If you don't want to listen to
it, then don't listen to it! That is why there is a dial, and also
an On/Off switch. Have at it...
 
mysticnitekatt said:
Who wants to listen to music on AM? Really?
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Thousands of people who can't find music they enjoy anywhere else on the radio. AM can sound much better than people who have never listened to properly processed audio on a decent AM radio could ever believe. I realize that what follows isn't much of an argument in the real world, but in theory, neither digital processing nor FM can transmit audio without introducing some distortion or artifacts. In theory, AM can transmit audio without introducing either distortion or artifacts. Amazing but true!
 
I used to run AM on the ham bands, back in the day. While most
were using SSB, the AM sounded positively high fidelity! Throw
in a good microphone and processing, and WOW!

73, de WA1RFF
 
Re: MOYL feed

WLYNgm said:
The MOYL feed (from NY) comes in here really hot, level-wise.
I am tweaking the processing, so hopefully will sound
a bit better. As with any new venture, it is a learning curve...
Click to expand...

Well, if you adjusted the attenuation of the network feed before last evening (2/9 into 2/10), it sounded to me at though you had significantly reduced the distortion. Thanks! However, I think somebody in New York (if that's the origination point) still has some work to do. The voice-tracks that were voiced by Calabria Foti (if I've got her name right) need to be cranked way down. They were the only obviously badly distorted program elements that I picked up on 2/9. The distortion on these tracks was very noticeable, though.
 
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