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RIP CD 92.9

Nu_Roo_2 said:
I had forgotten that Roger Vaughn wasn't the first owner of WWCD. And I had definitely forgotten about "Lady Radio" -- which is hardly surprising!

CD101’s origin tale is classic old-school Columbus
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Wow that's some history - I remember (I was a teen at the time) but them having the spat with GC about building the tower out off Borror Rd but I didn't know all the back story) and had forgotten it was not originally Vaughn. Thanks for sharing that - I remember 107.1's Lady Radio days (before the owner flipped it to an early attempt at CCM but that's for another post). :)
 
Just read an article from WCMH Channel 4 in Columbus where Senator Sherrod Brown was trying to get all sides together before the shutdown on January 31st.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — As CD 92.9 FM’s final hours broadcasting as a terrestrial radio station ticked down, one of Ohio’s U.S. senators tried to intervene before it lost access to the airwaves.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) penned a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, WWCD Ltd. owner Randy Malloy and 92.9 FM frequency licensees Delmar and ICS Communications on Jan. 31. Malloy, Delmar’s Brent Casagrande and ICS’ Mark Litton’s talks for WWCD Ltd. to purchase the FM license and associated equipment had fallen through, and Malloy’s CD 92.9 station was scheduled to lose access to the frequency at midnight on Feb. 1.
 
The Diamond said:
Just read an article from WCMH Channel 4 in Columbus where Senator Sherrod Brown was trying to get all sides together before the shutdown on January 31st.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — As CD 92.9 FM’s final hours broadcasting as a terrestrial radio station ticked down, one of Ohio’s U.S. senators tried to intervene before it lost access to the airwaves.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) penned a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, WWCD Ltd. owner Randy Malloy and 92.9 FM frequency licensees Delmar and ICS Communications on Jan. 31. Malloy, Delmar’s Brent Casagrande and ICS’ Mark Litton’s talks for WWCD Ltd. to purchase the FM license and associated equipment had fallen through, and Malloy’s CD 92.9 station was scheduled to lose access to the frequency at midnight on Feb. 1.
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How Sen. Sherrod Brown got involved in CD 92.9’s Columbus FM radio exodus

View a previous report on 93X’s launch on 92.9 FM in the video player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — As CD 92.9 FM’s final hours broadcasting as a terrestrial radio station ticked…
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william#1 said:
You know, the one thing I thought they'd at least do is clean up the audio lol
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Yes yes yes william#1! Their audio quality has been terrible over the years. I was a 30-year dedicated/casual listener and perhaps but two years when they had the LMA on with Southeastern Broadcasting at 102.5 they sounded good. I don't know if it was intentional to sound like crap but it sure seemed like it. I'm a fan of the music they played but would be repeatedly driven away by their awful audio. WXGT seems to be keeping up the tradition by the same awful audio quality. I haven't checked for a few days but they sounded like their audio was mono. Seriously?
 
seriousdrag said:
I don't get it. Why did they even bother?
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Because they were in negotiations with Malloy in some form. I have yet to determine the specifics of the discussions, but Malloy registered multiple domains for "CD 105.7" as I reported here: As CD92.9 Signs-Off; 93X To Launch In Columbus - RadioInsight

A source indicated that the discussions were being openly talked about at the 92.9 sign-off party, but we do not know if the deal was simply to move the CD brand to 105.7 with iHeart handling ad sales, some CD programming airing on the station, or iHeart acquiring the IP. Either way, at this point it does not appear to be happening.
 
magnet_flex said:
Now on 2/12 RDS on 105.7 now shows WWCD. I don't know when it started but there it is.
The 93X continues the tradition of terrible audio quality on that frequency. Audio sounds mono despite the stereo carrier.
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105.7s audio is terrible too. I think it must be a rule that all alternative music have 50% distortion.
 
If you're going to be an online only station wouldn't you try to make deals to have it available on TuneIn or iHeartRadio. As far as I can tell, the only way to listen to CD 92.9 is to go on a web browser and go to the station website. I really don't see that lasting very long.
 
william#1 said:
If you're going to be an online only station wouldn't you try to make deals to have it available on TuneIn or iHeartRadio. As far as I can tell, the only way to listen to CD 92.9 is to go on a web browser and go to the station website. I really don't see that lasting very long.
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Downside to TuneIn is unless you pay premium they randomly drop commercials in the stream. Annoying.
 
william#1 said:
That sounds awful, and I wouldn't pay a premium to listen to radio stations lol
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AFAIK. It is the Broadcasters who don't pay for Tune-in "Premium" who get ads dropped into the stream at seemingly random.

Broadcasters who pay get preroll ads that do not interrupt the user listening.
 
speer360 said:
AFAIK. It is the Broadcasters who don't pay for Tune-in "Premium" who get ads dropped into the stream at seemingly random.

Broadcasters who pay get preroll ads that do not interrupt the user listening.
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I don’t subscribe to premium and the streams I listen to get the random ads. Not sure if it’s me or the streamer, but I get the ads. Annoying.
 
mikenci said:
105.7s audio is terrible too. I think it must be a rule that all alternative music have 50% distortion.
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I get what you're saying @mikenci. But I'll take that sort of over-processed crunchy sounding audio over what sounds like a 1999 thousand times shared Napster mp3. I grew up on the Chicago B96 and Z95 CHR audio wars in the 80s which were just so fun to listen to because of how processed they were, in a good way. Those engineers and PDs knew what they were doing.
 
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william#1 said:
If you're going to be an online only station wouldn't you try to make deals to have it available on TuneIn or iHeartRadio. As far as I can tell, the only way to listen to CD 92.9 is to go on a web browser and go to the station website. I really don't see that lasting very long.
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TuneIn is no longer taking new stations or submissions. They have had a freeze on for several months.
 
mikenci said:
TuneIn is no longer taking new stations or submissions. They have had a freeze on for several months.
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Kind of off topic, but I downloaded TuneIn and they had a section for all the iHeartRadio stations and podcasts. I figured IHeartRadio and TuneIn would be considered rivals and they wouldn't have all their stuff on TuneIn, but I guess not lol
 
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