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Q105 Middays - Automated And/Or Voicetracked?

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

I'm wondering if at least a portion of Q105's midday show is partly automated/voicetracked. A dead giveaway is that there is a portion of the 10 AM hour and sometimes the 11 AM hour in which Q105's streaming player does not display the artist, title and album for the songs on the air at that moment. But today, I was caught off guard when I heard Q105 play KC And The Sunshine Band's "Boogie Shoes" not only after 8 AM, but after 10 AM, as well. That's twice within two hours. Can that be blamed on human error, or computer error?
 
DToTheJ said:
I'm wondering if at least a portion of Q105's midday show is partly automated/voicetracked. A dead giveaway is that there is a portion of the 10 AM hour and sometimes the 11 AM hour in which Q105's streaming player does not display the artist, title and album for the songs on the air at that moment. But today, I was caught off guard when I heard Q105 play KC And The Sunshine Band's "Boogie Shoes" not only after 8 AM, but after 10 AM, as well. That's twice within two hours. Can that be blamed on human error, or computer error?
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A better question to ask is whether there are any stations left not voicetracked or automated?
...and which is which.

I've always said there is a 6th sense that a listener develops that tells him or her that the person is not there.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
I was told by a worker at the Gandy Blvd complex that even though he is there for his show he rarely, if ever, actually speaks live on the air. He would VT as he went along, or do an hour or so ahead instead of the entire show. He was a parttimer so I guess he wanted the most hours he could squeeze in.
 
I really don't know if it's voicetracked or not. Who cares anyway. As long as the music is good, that's all it matters. I heard that in Orlando there's a show with high ratings and it's quite funny because it's all voicetracked. You see? A LIVE BODY in the studio really doesn't mean anything. Nowadays, you can't tell.

badjef said:
DToTheJ said:
I'm wondering if at least a portion of Q105's midday show is partly automated/voicetracked. A dead giveaway is that there is a portion of the 10 AM hour and sometimes the 11 AM hour in which Q105's streaming player does not display the artist, title and album for the songs on the air at that moment. But today, I was caught off guard when I heard Q105 play KC And The Sunshine Band's "Boogie Shoes" not only after 8 AM, but after 10 AM, as well. That's twice within two hours. Can that be blamed on human error, or computer error?
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A better question to ask is whether there are any stations left not voicetracked or automated?
...and which is which.

I've always said there is a 6th sense that a listener develops that tells him or her that the person is not there.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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At least with WDUV you know what you get! Q105 has a personality, be it live or memorex.
 
Nostalgia said:
I was told by a worker at the Gandy Blvd complex that even though he is there for his show he rarely, if ever, actually speaks live on the air. He would VT as he went along, or do an hour or so ahead instead of the entire show...
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I know that sometimes, they might do a giveaway and ask listeners to call in; I noticed yesterday at around 10:30 AM, during which time a contest was being held, the music being played was appearing on the player.
 
Nostalgia said:
I was told by a worker at the Gandy Blvd complex that even though he is there for his show he rarely, if ever, actually speaks live on the air. He would VT as he went along, or do an hour or so ahead instead of the entire show. He was a parttimer so I guess he wanted the most hours he could squeeze in.
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Well, he's the PD - not a parttimer.

But you are correct, It's voicetracked.

You can catch him out at resturants at lunchtime - the same time he's at "the big chill cafe".
 
The easy way to tell if they are voice tracked is this: do they tell you the time? And when doing a forecast, do they give you the current temps? If they don't...they are voice tracked, plain and simple. That's the one thing that the computers can't do...yet!
 
JoJo Walker said:
The easy way to tell if they are voice tracked is this: do they tell you the time? And when doing a forecast, do they give you the current temps? If they don't...they are voice tracked, plain and simple. That's the one thing that the computers can't do...yet!
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If they are giving you the time, how accurate is the time. At 91x in San Diego, we put the station on the air at our Downtown studios. We ran tapes across the border to the transmitter in Mexico. The times we announced were also used to see if we needed to add an extra song to make up the time especially for the Morning show. Other ways we did were to mark the time we started an event, then wait the 6 hours for it to play in real time.

We never gave temps for that reason, though.

But, a lot of stations had eliminated the time-temp jock years before the days of VT's.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
Giving the time and temps doesn't mean that you are a time and temp jock, simply a sign that you are live, not voice tracked. To do the forcast and not give the current temps...what's the point???
 
JoJo Walker said:
Giving the time and temps doesn't mean that you are a time and temp jock, simply a sign that you are live, not voice tracked. To do the forcast and not give the current temps...what's the point???
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Somebody on the boards could probably explain a "time-temp" jock better than I could but it is essentially: one who breaks open the mike and that is the first thing they say. I think it originated with the Boss Jocks, but I may be mistaken. Just because someone does weather twice and hour does not make them a "time-temp" jock.

And in answer to your question, with us at 91x, we were only delayed 6 hours, in San Diego the weather did not vary that much from day to day, let alone in six hours. The temps did change within a couple of miles so we would give the valley and the beaches. Most of the time it would change 15-20 degrees. Otherwise, I would have to defer the questions to the PD's that have done it and their philosophy.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
I did notice once on a station that they said "it's 12 after the hour" instead of saying it's "12 past 6" or whatever time it was. I knew it was voicetracked and figured they just used the "after the hour" because they could then play the show at other times and this gets around the specific hour thing. Trouble is, you had best get the show off at the top of the hour [or whatever time it's supposed to start] when it's supposed to play. I heard one "jock" give the time and happened to look at my watch and he was off by 20 minutes, thought I had misheard, waited till he said the time later and it was still off by 20 minutes....I knew someone had screwed up bigtime.
 
badjef said:
JoJo Walker said:
Giving the time and temps doesn't mean that you are a time and temp jock, simply a sign that you are live, not voice tracked. To do the forcast and not give the current temps...what's the point???
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Somebody on the boards could probably explain a "time-temp" jock better than I could but it is essentially: one who breaks open the mike and that is the first thing they say. I think it originated with the Boss Jocks, but I may be mistaken. Just because someone does weather twice and hour does not make them a "time-temp" jock.

And in answer to your question, with us at 91x, we were only delayed 6 hours, in San Diego the weather did not vary that much from day to day, let alone in six hours. The temps did change within a couple of miles so we would give the valley and the beaches. Most of the time it would change 15-20 degrees. Otherwise, I would have to defer the questions to the PD's that have done it and their philosophy.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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Hey Jeff, does this mean that Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta used the be "Jeff At The X"....?
 
Is any commercial station in our area actually live 24/7?
 
GeorgeJ. said:
badjef said:
JoJo Walker said:
Giving the time and temps doesn't mean that you are a time and temp jock, simply a sign that you are live, not voice tracked. To do the forcast and not give the current temps...what's the point???
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Somebody on the boards could probably explain a "time-temp" jock better than I could but it is essentially: one who breaks open the mike and that is the first thing they say. I think it originated with the Boss Jocks, but I may be mistaken. Just because someone does weather twice and hour does not make them a "time-temp" jock.

And in answer to your question, with us at 91x, we were only delayed 6 hours, in San Diego the weather did not vary that much from day to day, let alone in six hours. The temps did change within a couple of miles so we would give the valley and the beaches. Most of the time it would change 15-20 degrees. Otherwise, I would have to defer the questions to the PD's that have done it and their philosophy.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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Hey Jeff, does this mean that Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta used the be "Jeff At The X"....?
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Yes, and I have sneakin' suspision that you were "Ralph"!
 
badjef said:
JoJo Walker said:
Giving the time and temps doesn't mean that you are a time and temp jock, simply a sign that you are live, not voice tracked. To do the forcast and not give the current temps...what's the point???
Click to expand...
Somebody on the boards could probably explain a "time-temp" jock better than I could but it is essentially: one who breaks open the mike and that is the first thing they say. I think it originated with the Boss Jocks, but I may be mistaken. Just because someone does weather twice and hour does not make them a "time-temp" jock.

And in answer to your question, with us at 91x, we were only delayed 6 hours, in San Diego the weather did not vary that much from day to day, let alone in six hours. The temps did change within a couple of miles so we would give the valley and the beaches. Most of the time it would change 15-20 degrees. Otherwise, I would have to defer the questions to the PD's that have done it and their philosophy.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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Always loved the way the JOCK gets blamed for being about "time and temp" when he's simply fulfilling directives from his program director. In the pre PPM era, there was actually a strategy behind doing this. Weather is a basic service element that people expect from their local radio station and will sit through a song or two waiting for it, which of course helps TSL. Why so many radio stations have voluntarily ceded this image to news/talk is beyond my limited I.Q, I guess.

Time in morning and afternoon drive is also a service element for those commuting to or from work, though with most cars now having digital clocks front and center on the dash is not as relevant as in the past. Still, it can't hurt.
 
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