N1WVQ said:
Not quite like going down to Wal-Mart or Best Buy and grabbing one off the shelf, eh? Makes me wonder why any station still runs stereo, unless maybe it's somehow more expensive to uninstall it than to leave it running.
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Some grand NEW ideas for Boston...!
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Not quite like going down to Wal-Mart or Best Buy and grabbing one off the shelf, eh? Makes me wonder why any station still runs stereo, unless maybe it's somehow more expensive to uninstall it than to leave it running.
No, but the instructions wouldn't be in a pictogram either!CTListener said:
I liken it to this: if A.M. is to survive, stereo or not, it has to be cared about. Not just turned on & forgotten like many A.M.s (be it the programming, facilities, whatever). I am working on bringing a station that's maligned on another board back to being a hometown radio station. Local talk, news, sports. One of the things I'd like to do is add stereo. Why? Because I care about the station, about the town, about giving the best I can to the listeners. I know radio's a business but it's also a public service and a privilege. Sorry, I'm getting off topic here.
Some stations like the sound of A.M. stereo. KCJJ was supportive of the A.M. stereo movement back around 2000. They're still in stereo today. There are recordings of A.M. stereo on Meduci.com which if you listen to the 1st hour, 2nd song, it's nice to hear rock sound good on A.M. because in mono you really can't hear the drum beats but they do become clear, clean & crisp in C-QUAM!
73!
N1WVQ said:
Unfortunately, the only AM stereo station that puts a usable signal into my location is WQUN. I'm sure Peggy Lee, Andy Williams, and Quinnipiac University hockey sound great in stereo, but that's hardly enough to get me to buy new equipment.
That is unfortunate but all the more reason that try to get stations to begin stereo. IBOC causes too much interference & mono is flat. At least the stereo radios have a higher bandwidth than the mono receivers do (the AMAX receivers go to @ least 7.5kc). I'm wondering, are you around New Haven or off to the side a little bit (west, north or east?)?CTListener said:
73!
N1WVQ said:
About equidistant between New Haven and Hartford, a couple of miles closer to Hartford than to New Haven.
There are still million of cars on the road made in the 1990's and early 2000's with AM Stereo so stations still running it have that audience (a lot of Ford Expeditions, Explorers, Taurus models have it - and they were big sellers during that era). Many Chrysler's and GM models had it as well. If WJIB could get their stereo exciter back on the air - my '99 Expedition would gladly pump it out the speakers (hint, hint) and I might even be tempted to dig out my SRF-42 walkman.
The biggest tragedy of IBOC in my opinion is that it killed AM Stereo becoming mainstream. By the late '90's C-Quam had been made the official/only standard and the Motorola patents were running out so the radio makers/chip set makers could have put it in all their gear at low cost. Also many transmitters were shipping with it as an option (like Nautel) and it likely would would have eventually become standard on that side as well. Several hundred stations were still running C-Quam in the late 1990's but when IBOC came along and was incompatible with it, it was dropped by everyone for the sake of HD radio compatibility.
AM Stereo wasn't a feature many people were shopping for - but if it had just been there then it would have been used. HD radio seems to have the same issue for adoption. It has proven to be a niche that few are basing buying decisions on. If Ibiquity would let the radio makers include it royalty free they might have a better shot (although it has more technical barriers than AM Stereo like impacting battery life on portables, heat dissipation, etc.)
The biggest tragedy of IBOC in my opinion is that it killed AM Stereo becoming mainstream. By the late '90's C-Quam had been made the official/only standard and the Motorola patents were running out so the radio makers/chip set makers could have put it in all their gear at low cost. Also many transmitters were shipping with it as an option (like Nautel) and it likely would would have eventually become standard on that side as well. Several hundred stations were still running C-Quam in the late 1990's but when IBOC came along and was incompatible with it, it was dropped by everyone for the sake of HD radio compatibility.
AM Stereo wasn't a feature many people were shopping for - but if it had just been there then it would have been used. HD radio seems to have the same issue for adoption. It has proven to be a niche that few are basing buying decisions on. If Ibiquity would let the radio makers include it royalty free they might have a better shot (although it has more technical barriers than AM Stereo like impacting battery life on portables, heat dissipation, etc.)
BRNout said:NEW ideas have no place in Boston radio! Especially not grand ones.
Everyone knows that.......
There's always room for new ideas, but when the original poster's "grand ideas" include messing with 4 of the top rating and revenue generating stations in the market (WBZ, WMJX, WXKS & WJMN), you're right, there's no place for those ideas. Sure, those stations will evolve and adapt over time, but KISS 108 going to all electronic/dance music?? C'mon!
Like I said in an earlier post...the original poster is a troll.
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I'm surprised here. Where's all the people who call for those Dial Global "format in a can"? The "Boston has too many rock stations" people? And the ones calling for the restoration of smooth jazz?
Would love to see WBOS go away - maybe evolve into something more MIKE-oriented. Putting something different on 97.7 would be nice. Restore local ownership to WILD and bring back its Urban/Urban AC incarnation. Sell WFNX to a small, nurturing radio company that will keep the current format and run it right (read: no Phoenix writers on air). Change WZLX's calls to WBCN and run it as an 80% classic/20% new, quality rock (read: no Nickelback).
Would love to see WBOS go away - maybe evolve into something more MIKE-oriented. Putting something different on 97.7 would be nice. Restore local ownership to WILD and bring back its Urban/Urban AC incarnation. Sell WFNX to a small, nurturing radio company that will keep the current format and run it right (read: no Phoenix writers on air). Change WZLX's calls to WBCN and run it as an 80% classic/20% new, quality rock (read: no Nickelback).
Jimmy128 said:
The Chinese government seems to think it has value as a propaganda tool. It's not going back to urban.
CTListener said:
total spectrum dominance is the goal - 6020, and other Sackville (canada) CRI channels boom in stronger than locals at all hours. from say 5 to 10 am theres probably 30-40 CRIs in english and chinese audible everywhere from 6 to 17 mhz, and up to half a dozen firedrakes
i guess the WILD 1090 and WROL 950 airtime buys are going after the 3 people who listen to AM radio
carmen said:
Those shortwave buys aren't worth much more to them, at least in the U.S.
carmen said:
Capt. Al was a longtime fan of WILD back in the day, but he was never on it.
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