Seattle fm signals

[TexasTom]

No, it doesn't.

Do the math -- if a station programs 48 minutes of music per hour, 3% of 48 minutes works out to an extra 1 minute and 26 seconds. That would be one short song.

An accurate mathematical assessment requires figuring out how long individual songs are within that 48 minutes.

No, it doesn't. It just requires knowing what the total duration of all the music played during that hour is. If all the songs are sped up by the same amount, the length of the individual songs would make no difference. The bottom line is that if you take 48 minutes worth of music and speed it up by 3%, you'll be able to play all that music in 46 minutes and 34 seconds, for that savings of 1 minute and 26 seconds. And that will be just as true if it's 24 two-minute Beatles songs, or a set that starts out with
the album version of Peter Framptom's "Do You Feel Like I Do"...

 

[AQH]

No, it doesn't.

Do the math -- if a station programs 48 minutes of music per hour, 3% of 48 minutes works out to an extra 1 minute and 26 seconds. That would be one short song.

An accurate mathematical assessment requires figuring out how long individual songs are within that 48 minutes.

No, it doesn't. It just requires knowing what the total duration of all the music played during that hour is. If all the songs are sped up by the same amount, the length of the individual songs would make no difference. The bottom line is that if you take 48 minutes worth of music and speed it up by 3%, you'll be able to play all that music in 46 minutes and 34 seconds, for that savings of 1 minute and 26 seconds. And that will be just as true if it's 24 two-minute Beatles songs, or a set that starts out with the album version of Peter Framptom's "Do You Feel Like I Do"...

Whatever you say.

 

[Rock 100.7]

Is this why KUBE doesn't come in the same way as KJR? That one has been that way forever though. It also might be when they turned down the audio processing it was just that much of a difference. Hmm.

Processing...

 

[Bongwater]

KUBE has been reclassified as a C0, so if they moved to West Tiger, it would be with less power than the other stations. Since they never went there, to begin with, I have to think that there's a spacing issue involved.

What surprises me on Cougar is KRWM. They're HALF the power of KUBE, KJR-FM and KPLZ and it starts to show from Lynnwood to Everett.They seem noisier on I-5 compared to the others. I'm kind of surprised they're not 100,000 watts...

 

[IndigoCoyote]

Well, they are a C1. 106.7 in PDX caused this? Not sure- one of the engineering types would know. Maybe Bremerton didn't "deserve" a C.

 

[bobdavcav]

I don't think any station in Portland caused the C1 status on 106.9, more likely it's KRQT Castle Rock at 107.1. Look at KBFF and KJR-FM, both C stations co-existing, as well as KQMV and KGON. Also think about KDDS at 99.3 and KWJJ 99.5.

 

[Bongwater]

Well, they are a C1. 106.7 in PDX caused this? Not sure- one of the engineering types would know. Maybe Bremerton didn't "deserve" a C.

106.9 is also pretty noisy in parts of their own city of license (Bremerton) since the move to Cougar.

I was thinking about that while listening to KRWM in Bremerton and driving past Forest Ridge Park a few years ago when I heard "Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy", a pretty quiet song and noticing all the fuzz where KWWA/KHIT once blasted.....

 

[semoochie]

The Stonehenge Tower is in the area that was originally set up to hold the first adjacents to Seattle stations. It's distant enough for Class C stations to coexist in both cities. The line is close though and since the advent of Class C0, will work from one of the TV towers. Stonehenge is the same HAAT as Cougar so most of the Class Cs maintain their status because no one has tried to get them reclassified. KWJJ is a C1. Before Stonehenge was built, all the HAATs in that area were between 800 and 1000 feet. Most of those stations are lucky not to have been reclassified when C1 came into being. 106.7 did lock in 106.9, as a C1 but it shouldn't stop the latter from being a C0, not that another station doesn't.

 

[bobdavcav]

I know KWJJ is a C1, but KDDS transmits from a tower site that is at least 50 miles south of the other Seattle stations that are ajacent to Portland ones.