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Pondering The UnKNWN....

seatownmedia said:
Just listened to the 3pm-3:10 sequence on the old KOMO. Here is what I heard: Top of the hour ID using new calls, ABC news, then "Northwest News 1000", very punchy with short, quick headlines and maybe an extra sentence. A different news bed, but not overwhleming in any sense. Traffic on the 4's as usual. Overall doesn't sound signifcantly different. The biggest shock is hearing the new calls for this longtime listener. Just sounded foreign to me.
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New imaging package is somewhat more energetic. However, I think it makes Elisa Jaffe sound sleepy by comparison.
 
I'll have to record a bit of the "New" AM 1000 up here 1500 miles away for history sake I guess.. its my strongest most regular Seattle signal/
 
Kelly A said:
There..there...You'll get over it soon. There are lots of other old call letters on the airwaves.
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"(SOB!)...NO WE WON'T!...(SNIFF!)...WHERE, OH WHERE DID OUR LITTLE KOMO GO?!....(SOB!)....NO! WE DON'T WANT SOMEBODY'S OLD KVI OR KJR!....OR A BRAND NEW K-N-W-N!..(SNIFF!)...THOSE AREN'T AS ADORABLE AS (SOB!) OUR SWEET LITTLE KOMO WAS...(SNIFF!)...WAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAA!!!!!!...."

RIP KOMO, Our sweet, loyal little radio Husky has crossed the Ionosphereic Bridge....
 
The KOMO or rather KNWN signal must be aimed north, as it's only reliable here in southwest Washington probably 80% of the time. I did manage to
 
The KOMO or rather KNWN signal must be aimed north, as it's only reliable here in southwest Washington probably 80% of the time. I did manage to listen through all the static last night and I liked what I heard. The new imaging sounds much more authoritative. I think the biggest thing to get used to for me is not hearing everyone say KOMO news at the end of every report.
 
bobdavcav said:
The KOMO or rather KNWN signal must be aimed north, as it's only reliable here in southwest Washington probably 80% of the time. I did manage to listen through all the static last night and I liked what I heard. The new imaging sounds much more authoritative. I think the biggest thing to get used to for me is not hearing everyone say KOMO news at the end of every report.
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Or you could just "stream" on the internet, and listen to it nice and clear 😉
 
As I have posted before when I worked at KING AM back in the day (don’t care to mention how many years ago!) but I was like 18 lol. We would get occasional callers from Finland! Incredible northern signal, but driving through Federal Way 20 miles south of Seattle it would compete with XPRS out of Mexico. Kelly, this where you come in and explain it again!
 
seatownmedia said:
As I have posted before when I worked at KING AM back in the day (don’t care to mention how many years ago!) but I was like 18 lol. We would get occasional callers from Finland! Incredible northern signal, but driving through Federal Way 20 miles south of Seattle it would compete with XPRS out of Mexico. Kelly, this where you come in and explain it again!
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XEPRS bombs in up here.. with KFNQ way under it.
 
seatownmedia said:
As I have posted before when I worked at KING AM back in the day (don’t care to mention how many years ago!) but I was like 18 lol. We would get occasional callers from Finland! Incredible northern signal, but driving through Federal Way 20 miles south of Seattle it would compete with XPRS out of Mexico. Kelly, this where you come in and explain it again!
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It's been a while and I'd have to look it up to confirm, but 1090 had/has something like three night protections: XPRS, another station in SoCal, and one Midwest. If you take away power from South and East, where does it go?
 
It's been a while since I've tried 1090 down here. Ironically, last time I did I wanted to here XEPRS and got KFNQ instead! As for internet stream, I do that when the signal isn't reliable, and that's been quite frequent lately.
 
Just after the 8 a.m. news on Wednesday morning, I heard Rick Van Cise start giving a KOMO ID before he stopped and made a quick reference to putting some money in the jar for his mistake. We're ALL still getting used to the new call letters, it seems.
 
I was wondering if that ever happened. I've heard voice trackers who are doing multiple stations say the wrong station, but never that before! This is going to take some getting used to.
 
Treehouse SWL said:
Just after the 8 a.m. news on Wednesday morning, I heard Rick Van Cise start giving a KOMO ID before he stopped and made a quick reference to putting some money in the jar for his mistake. We're ALL still getting used to the new call letters, it seems.
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i did a live ID at one station i was at.. and i knew i was leaving soon but hadnt told the owner... i started the ID and was halfway through before i realized it was the wrong station (the one i was going to!)
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
i did a live ID at one station i was at.. and i knew i was leaving soon but hadnt told the owner... i started the ID and was halfway through before i realized it was the wrong station (the one i was going to!)
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I can relate. During my journalism years, I worked for five different newspapers within the first nine years as I scrambled upward to get to a newspaper that paid halfway decently. More than once while answering a newsroom phone, I gave the wrong newspaper name.
 
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