Power 96-1 Audio

[NightFlyer]

V103 was a top 3 back in the early 80s when I was in high school. They have been a very strong contender through the years.

Back to 96.1's audio.. ..

Is it digital artifacts like I mentioned last week on 105.7? I don't listen to Power 96, so..

 

[secondchoice]

I was introduced to a V 103 salesman in 1978 in the Z93 lobby (in the old C & S building) waiting for a copy of a commercial in the fall of 1978. I happened to have an aircheck and I gave it to him. He called me that weekend and said I should try for an off air production job at V 103. Unfortunately I took another job that Friday and had to let it go.


But I digress. CC has a very good engineering group. I am surprised they have audio issues.

 

[NightFlyer]

I still wonder if 105.7's case isn't the source material. I can only hear artifacting in certain songs but not others.
But then, I have picky ears.

 

[RadioDoogie]

Just simply flip between Q100 and Power 96-1. You hear a noticeable difference. It sounds like I am far enough from the transmitter where I receive stereo but just barely. The in town stations sound ten times better and the stereo is richer when you are close to town but audio quality deteriorates and the stereo effect goes away the further you get away from town. Power sounds like I am way out of town into mono territory. You are correct about 105.7, it sounds like it's having the same audio issues.

 

[MRFLASHPORT]

do you guys think most of the listeners today even notice the robotic audio quality produced by the "cascading codec" effects? Most people are perfectly content listening to compressed MP3 files through a pair of $5 Chinese headphones.

 

[NightFlyer]

do you guys think most of the listeners today even notice the robotic audio quality produced by the "cascading codec" effects? Most people are perfectly content listening to compressed MP3 files through a pair of $5 Chinese headphones.

Even if those $5 headphones came with the $74 premium for the lowercase i? ;D

Yes I agree. People in general don't care about sound quality. They either look to how much bass they can get or just don't care at all. However, any station should still sound its best for those of us that do.
And I am sitting here at work listening to music on a pair of Sennheiser HD238, my favorite lightweight headphones.

 

[bringbackradio]

If only CBS had a CHR there. :-\

They'd be much more serious about success.

You realize that every CHR CBS owns is losing except for San Fran where there's no full-signal competition

Uh, not exactly. In the case of 99.7 NOW in San Francisco, they do have competition from CC's Wild 94.9 which is rhythmic. And yet they are both in the Top 10 overall in ratings there.

If you're going to count Rhythmics as competition, then you also have to count Hot AC, and probably Alternative - in some markets, even Country and Urban

99.7 NOW is obviously doing well, but they have no CHR competition except for a low-signal station

Wild 94.9 leans Top 40-ish because it is co-owned with urban powerhouse KMEL in the same region. But then again rhythmic radio isn't the same as it was in the 90s and 00s so...

 

[Wildstyle K]

I know ClearChannel has good CHR's almost everywhere else. But the one company that has had consistent success in Atlanta is CBS, which is why I hypothesize that if WVEE were a heritage CHR instead of heritage Urban, then Atlanta probably would've had a long term successful CHR that would've been better than average.

Ask the folks down the hall at 92.9 how that's worked out for them over the years.

Good point, but then again, 92.9 was a different type of music. Top 40 could survive changes better than rock since top 40 has much more room to be flexible and change with times. During the hip hop heavy days, a cbs owned chr could just tweak more towards hip hop or whatever the next big thing was. A station dedicated to a specific format runs better risk of failing if trends don't continue to go in their favor. So in the end it's hard to say whether or not the theory would've unfolded as I hypothesize.