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Severin Off To A Bad Start

I listened to Jay from 5pm to 7pm last night in the car.

1200's signal came in either very well or OK all the way down Rt 495, from Worcester (Exit 25) to Wareham (Exit 2).

Not sure how well 1200 comes in for folks closer to Boston, but I know I won't have any problems getting the signal.
 
raccoonradio said:
Was he on after 6 pm? Thought it was 3-6 pm with Hannity 6-9. Maybe they re-ran his first hour or he stayed late?
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Oops! I mean to type 5pm to 6pm.

Sorry for the confusion. Nonetheless, 1200 seems to come in just fine for me. I will still opt for the internet streaming if I am home during those hours.
 
IBOC was a hype to sell equipment to radio stations and listeners...and has done zero to improve station's ratings or bottom lines. It's been an overwhelming failure. And, as JIB guy pointed out...is fading faster than the sun in the western sky.

Only "success" of IBOC: it's added even more interference to the AM band that already has enough built-in challenges: man-made noise, static from Mother nature, and the reality that 8 out of every 10 radio listeners tune into stations on FM (sad as that is for me to say).
 
JIBGUY said:
The general public is NOT here. We have no idea how many of the general public try an I-Bloc'd AM station, give up
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and we shouldnt just reject digital. 60, 90, and 120 meter shortwave bands are vastly underutilized and also ideal for 24/7 regional skywave. on 5MHz you could hit half the eastern seabord reliably all/day/night with 50Kw. i know i can hear virginia to maine daytime on 80 meters, and 60 is even more favorable with less absorption

between the three bands you have roughly 1 MHz of spectrum (-20khz since cuba uses 5025, and a bible thumper uses 3215) or about 100 channels. IOW. an XM/Sirius range of selection without the whole satellites thing. SILabs already makes shortwave recievers on a 2x2mm chip which have been integrated in some cellphones which includes a varactor so you could tune a multiturn coil embedded the cellphone's chassis to resonance at the desired frequency

since this is a good idea we can be reasonably sure it will never be implemented
 
Severin announced that he will begin to appear on Mondays at 735 am on the Jeff Katz Show --evidently they are friends according to Jay. He will be joining the show!
 
beantownradio25 said:
I love that Talk 1200 is simulcast on WXKS-FM HD 2. I'm most likely in a total minority, but it has given me incentive to actually use my HD Radio.
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I get WXKS-FM HD2 very well in Salem, although I listen mostly to WZLX HD2 "Radio Mojo". Both come in perfectly. So Jay is on FM. ;)

Clear channel will probably put him on their other New England stations.
 
CTListener said:
I just find the most strident objections to HD seem to come from DXers and other radio geeks, who don't matter to the CBSes and Clear Channels of the world, not the average listener in the targeted metro or from the advertisers. Am I wrong about this?
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Yes, dead wrong. Interfering with adjacent-channel stations within their NIF contours is unacceptable. (For those who don't know, NIF = nighttime inteference-free.) That directly affects the people in the station's local nighttime coverage area. I'm guessing you don't own a station whose coverage area is being blown away by HD carriers. If you did, you'd change your tune pretty fast.

If such a system had been proposed 30 years ago, the FCC's (now irrelevant) engineers would have put a stop to it. Now, just like everything else over there, it's just another politically-based "innovation" which ignores the laws of physics.
 
scranton said:
Severin announced that he will begin to appear on Mondays at 735 am on the Jeff Katz Show --evidently they are friends according to Jay. He will be joining the show!
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Maybe he can clue Katz in on the fact that there's no such word as "pentultimate" and that if the word he's searching for is "penultimate" he doesn't understand its meaning. I noticed he used that back when he was still making fun of Bob Raleigh's pens. He's the male Michele-with-one-'L'.
 
Laurence Glavin said:
Now he says that he listened to AM 1200 while working at "the other station", on which he constantly railed against AM radio!
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Amazing how he listened to 1200 all day yet still managed to quote other hosts' shows. He must be a miracle worker...listen to 1200 in one ear and TKK in the other.
 
Tape recorder or recorded onto comp.? Also possible to rec. on some mp3 players with radio
(Sansa, RCA Opal etc have FM radios with record capability)..maybe just kept switching
between the diff. shows. Howie btw has made snide remarks about listening to the morning show "on the new station down the dial" (i.e., Katz, 1200), said "he heard on Rush's show..." etc.
 
Whether you like Severin or not, his addition to Talk 1200 can only be a good thing. Their ratings are in the dumper and all he can do is move them up.
 
Damn, does Boston have ANY healthy talk stations? Here in Providence, WPRO/WEAN-FM does well but Boston seems like all of the stations are near death. Everybody must be on WBZ or Sports!
 
N1WVQ said:
Damn, does Boston have ANY healthy talk stations? Here in Providence, WPRO/WEAN-FM does well but Boston seems like all of the stations are near death. Everybody must be on WBZ or Sports!
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Wait until Cumulus comes in and blows out some of the local hosts. From what I hear, they run a tight ship. Then WPRO/WEAN-FM will have ratings similar to the Boston talk stations. :mad:
 
ned said:
Whether you like Severin or not, his addition to Talk 1200 can only be a good thing. Their ratings are in the dumper and all he can do is move them up.
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Or keep them in the dumper
 
DavidZ said:
N1WVQ said:
Damn, does Boston have ANY healthy talk stations? Here in Providence, WPRO/WEAN-FM does well but Boston seems like all of the stations are near death. Everybody must be on WBZ or Sports!
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Wait until Cumulus comes in and blows out some of the local hosts. From what I hear, they run a tight ship. Then WPRO/WEAN-FM will have ratings similar to the Boston talk stations. :mad:
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I second that :mad: .
 
WXKS-FM has been analog only all day, which means no Talk 1200 on the HD-2! WJMN-FM is still in HD.
 
carmen said:
and we shouldnt just reject digital. 60, 90, and 120 meter shortwave bands are vastly underutilized and also ideal for 24/7 regional skywave. on 5MHz you could hit half the eastern seabord reliably all/day/night with 50Kw. i know i can hear virginia to maine daytime on 80 meters, and 60 is even more favorable with less absorption...since this is a good idea we can be reasonably sure it will never be implemented.
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Thanks for posting that. Goodness knows we needed a laugh today.

Care to enlighten us as to exactly how many radio listeners have shortwave receivers? How about the number of station owners (that is, those with a death wish) who would move to shortwave if it were made available?
 
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