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Quality Control...

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edarmsttrong

Why does State College's CHR station have to sound so bad? For a hot minute, I thought WGMR was resurrected on a different frequency. It's 'anemic'...and suffering from stereo balance issues.

Apart from the programming, does anyone there listen, I mean really listen critically to their station's audio quality? And not on a Fisher-Price radio?

This has happened before and I e-mailed them as a courtesy. Their response was that it "sounds fine". Then, shortly thereafter, their engineer explained to me why it wasn't his fault. I began to think maybe this is what happens when sales types run things instead of techs.

My opinion (and you know I always have many)...the audio shouldn't be an afterthought, just because a station's format is the only game in town.

C'mon, my Ipod and Belkin Tunecast sound better... :-*
 
I believe Satelite Man can relate some of the quality issues Portello dealt with back when RCA, Gates, and Collins were the only people making transmitters. Of course our old Western Electric that was water cooled was fairly reliable.
 
Shout out to JPP...it's much better now. It actually sounds like a radio station again. As a matter of fact, I can even hear that bad bearing on a hard drive in the studio when the jox crack the mic. ;D
 
Oh I remember ol' Portello one time...WHOA, enough about him for one day. I'm going to hit the rack. I've got a busy summer ahead of me and the fry wagon. I'm using a new kind of grease this year that was actually used aboard one of the space shuttles. They tell me that although it is more expensive, it will last longer, will stretch thinner, and have less of an odor. Plus more omega 3's. Time will tell.
 
As a great radio voice once said...."You can have the best equipment, a rockin air chain, everything set to perfection and if there is a substandard CD deck or a hot modulation level..it all stinks!"
 
and if you can't sell advertising, the way it sounds doesn't matter...
 
I think what it all boils down to is something that Chuck Brinkman taught us a long time ago. The best Dj's for radio is a kid about 15 or 16 years old. They understand the music scene and what is popular and what sells is youth.

The old people don't buy the same products with the same zest as the younger generation - that does not have to physically work for what they buy.

Think back to the 60's and 70's when Kennywood Park ran ad's on all the local stations and on television and how you had to run to the National Record Mart every time a new song came out or to buy concert tickets.

Money makes money.

If you want to run those old tube type transmitters, you have to have a pocket full of money and no where to spend it. Spend the money on the good stuff and not on the stuff that WKRP in Cincinnati was using on their television program 30 years ago and you will stay ahead of the game.

As long as stations keeps trying to squeeze more profits and does not invest the profits back into the station, more and more people are going to complain.

If it is AM - you are lucky if it is still on the air - because in this day and age, nobody even wants to listen to am and it has become all talk radio.
 
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