Sinclair selling KOMO, KVI & KPLZ

[dxsphere]

KPLZ is now an HD radio station.

I saw this coming from a mile away. It was only a matter of time before Lotus upgraded it.

I smell KOMO (or KNWN or whenever that was supposed to take place) and KVI simulcasts coming on KPLZ-HD.

I can see this happening. Lotus tends to simulcast existing AM & FM properties on its HD subchannels, though not always.

 

[boombox4]

I smell KOMO (or KNWN or whenever that was supposed to take place) and KVI simulcasts coming on KPLZ-HD.

That could be a plus. KOMO-FM is sketchy in parts of King County, and KVI could probably use a higher fidelity option, for whichever format they use in the future.

 

[Kelly A]

Have been in the area over this weekend. My rental Infinity Q60 has a decent receiver. During my trip between Downtown Seattle to Lakewood and back, I did a lot of channel scanning. Of all the music stations, KPLZ was bottom of the quality list. Way over processed, pushing frequencies above 3K really hard. Sounding shrill, and squeezed like that is guaranteed to drive females away. Not sure what they're trying to do, other than hurting themselves with that awful 70's/80's sound.

 

[Bongwater]

Have been in the area over this weekend. My rental Infinity Q60 has a decent receiver. During my trip between Downtown Seattle to Lakewood and back, I did a lot of channel scanning. Of all the music stations, KPLZ was bottom of the quality list. Way over processed, pushing frequencies above 3K really hard. Sounding shrill, and squeezed like that is guaranteed to drive females away. Not sure what they're trying to do, other than hurting themselves with that awful 70's/80's sound.

But to be fair, this is still the average type of radio that KPLZ is heard out of;

 

[bobdavcav]

Have been in the area over this weekend. My rental Infinity Q60 has a decent receiver. During my trip between Downtown Seattle to Lakewood and back, I did a lot of channel scanning. Of all the music stations, KPLZ was bottom of the quality list. Way over processed, pushing frequencies above 3K really hard. Sounding shrill, and squeezed like that is guaranteed to drive females away. Not sure what they're trying to do, other than hurting themselves with that awful 70's/80's sound.

That's too bad. I always thought KPLZ had the best audio in the market. I'm likely to be up that way in about three weeks, so I'll have to listen then. I still haven't taken Seattle presets out of the G8, so it'll probably be one of the first stations I hear.

 

[Kento]

KPLZ HD2 and HD3 channels sound horrible. I have a 2020 Subaru Outback that has great sound quality in HD. They having audio issues with it. You have crank the volume to hear both stations. Whoever is the engineer for KPLZ needs to fix their audio problems in HD.

 

[notalent]

I would assume a transition is in progress with the HD signals... which is brand new as KPLZ never had it before.