I'm in southeastern NC, near Fayetteville.
There's usually nothing on 100.5 FM here.
Saturday morning, 11:45-noon Eastern, we were in a parking lot at a clothes store. I heard a station clear as a bell that was playing the audio of a "Fox News Special Business Report." It sounded just like the cable channel audio. I listened for about fifteen minutes, until my wife came out, the commercials all sounded like TV commercials that are currently running. They were for wesolveit.org, TDAmeritrade (Sam Waterston), ScottTrade, Applebee's, Sandals Resorts, some talking heads talked, then there was a Lowe's, Cargill ("we make flavors for other companies"), Wachovia, another ScottTrade, and at 12, they announced a Fox News Special Report and some more talking heads. There was, of course like when you're DXing something, no ID at the TOH. The only weird thing in the commercials was an ad for Bryan Honda (a local dealer here in Fayetteville), and then an ad for Wilmington Honda (a local dealer in Wilmington) that ran almost back to back early on in the list above. Other than that, the ads all sounded national. There were no liners or any other announcements from the station. There are a couple of hotels nearby, but why would [possibly, this was my first thought] the audio from a tv be on 100.5? If it was an XM/Sirius transmitter, why would there be two local ads hemmed in there? I'm perplexed.
The only 100.5's I could find that seemed in any way possible to have came in here were a WHLZ in Florence SC, WALC from Charleston SC, another country from farther away in the SC mountains, a Christian LPFM from Hilton Head SC, and a southern gospel translator from Rose Hill. There is a 100.5 K-Love translator in Wilmington, and WZEZ from Goochland, VA, which is easy listening. None of those seem like they'd run cable tv audio on a Saturday morning off the local cable channels, but I don't know.
So being the diligent DXer I was today, I drove the kids back over there to the parking lot. This time, I heard a WHLZ from SC ID mixing in with the tv audio channel sound. There was the country from WHLZ, and a rock station that I've figured out was Max100.5 out of Virginia Beach (which I've never heard here before either), and there was what I thought was the same tv audio going from one commercial to the next in order, without any liners or any DJ interventions. Today it started out with an Anthem Steel ad, a Dominion Motorcycle/Iron Core Custom ad (that's how I figured out that part of the mix was from Virginia Beach), a Bud Light ad, a Burger King ad, an ad for National Dealer Warranties, Pick & Pull Junk Cars, and then there was a liner that broke up and went in to Sweet Child of Mine.
The way the commercials sounded today, I thought it was more of the tv audio, but now I think it was just Max100.5. Do they have a dry, lifeless presentation to their stopsets like listening to the audio from Fox News Channel?
And what could the Fox News Channel audio from Saturday have been? Inquiring minds who have exhausted the possibilities they know of want to know.
There's usually nothing on 100.5 FM here.
Saturday morning, 11:45-noon Eastern, we were in a parking lot at a clothes store. I heard a station clear as a bell that was playing the audio of a "Fox News Special Business Report." It sounded just like the cable channel audio. I listened for about fifteen minutes, until my wife came out, the commercials all sounded like TV commercials that are currently running. They were for wesolveit.org, TDAmeritrade (Sam Waterston), ScottTrade, Applebee's, Sandals Resorts, some talking heads talked, then there was a Lowe's, Cargill ("we make flavors for other companies"), Wachovia, another ScottTrade, and at 12, they announced a Fox News Special Report and some more talking heads. There was, of course like when you're DXing something, no ID at the TOH. The only weird thing in the commercials was an ad for Bryan Honda (a local dealer here in Fayetteville), and then an ad for Wilmington Honda (a local dealer in Wilmington) that ran almost back to back early on in the list above. Other than that, the ads all sounded national. There were no liners or any other announcements from the station. There are a couple of hotels nearby, but why would [possibly, this was my first thought] the audio from a tv be on 100.5? If it was an XM/Sirius transmitter, why would there be two local ads hemmed in there? I'm perplexed.
The only 100.5's I could find that seemed in any way possible to have came in here were a WHLZ in Florence SC, WALC from Charleston SC, another country from farther away in the SC mountains, a Christian LPFM from Hilton Head SC, and a southern gospel translator from Rose Hill. There is a 100.5 K-Love translator in Wilmington, and WZEZ from Goochland, VA, which is easy listening. None of those seem like they'd run cable tv audio on a Saturday morning off the local cable channels, but I don't know.
So being the diligent DXer I was today, I drove the kids back over there to the parking lot. This time, I heard a WHLZ from SC ID mixing in with the tv audio channel sound. There was the country from WHLZ, and a rock station that I've figured out was Max100.5 out of Virginia Beach (which I've never heard here before either), and there was what I thought was the same tv audio going from one commercial to the next in order, without any liners or any DJ interventions. Today it started out with an Anthem Steel ad, a Dominion Motorcycle/Iron Core Custom ad (that's how I figured out that part of the mix was from Virginia Beach), a Bud Light ad, a Burger King ad, an ad for National Dealer Warranties, Pick & Pull Junk Cars, and then there was a liner that broke up and went in to Sweet Child of Mine.
The way the commercials sounded today, I thought it was more of the tv audio, but now I think it was just Max100.5. Do they have a dry, lifeless presentation to their stopsets like listening to the audio from Fox News Channel?
And what could the Fox News Channel audio from Saturday have been? Inquiring minds who have exhausted the possibilities they know of want to know.