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Speaking of B97.3

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Grindlfan

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I wonder if those bozos know that they're not transmitting right now 8:30AM Sunday morning? I just get static on all of my radios. They're coming across fine on line, which is how I am listening to AT 40 right now.
Tried calling the studio line and the Bonneville number to find out what the problem is but no answer. Even tried the KIRO line since they are in the same building but no answer on that line either. Good thing I didn't have some hot news scoop for them.
 
Grindlfan said:
I wonder if those bozos know that they're not transmitting right now 8:30AM Sunday morning? I just get static on all of my radios. They're coming across fine on line, which is how I am listening to AT 40 right now.
Tried calling the studio line and the Bonneville number to find out what the problem is but no answer. Even tried the KIRO line since they are in the same building but no answer on that line either. Good thing I didn't have some hot news scoop for them.
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For a station that you have said ad nauseum you think is in disarray, you sure listen a lot.

They could have very well been off the air for maintenance. Not every single station goes off at midnight for maintenance.
 
AQH, if you don't like my posts, don't read em. I listen infrequently to B97.3
They did however make a brilliant programming decision to add AT40. I will tune in for that every Sunday morning. Wouldn't you find it odd that they would schedule maintenence during feature programming? I don't remember ever hearing two hours of static for any station in Seattle unless their signal was knocked out.
When I am on my computer I am streaming KHITS out of Portland, still a far far superior station than B97.3
 
Listened a bunch last week. Not impressed with their new direction, sounds like the same tired songs....over and over and over.

I wish 'em luck.
 
Grindlfan said:
They did however make a brilliant programming decision to add AT40. I will tune in for that every Sunday morning. Wouldn't you find it odd that they would schedule maintenence during feature programming?
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It's Sunday morning, right after public affairs programming. Think about it.

They run "features" like AT 40 to shake things up and stretch out song rotations. If it was something they wanted to showcase, they'd play it at a time with more listeners.


Grindlfan said:
I don't remember ever hearing two hours of static for any station in Seattle unless their signal was knocked out. When I am on my computer I am streaming KHITS out of Portland, still a far far superior station than B97.3
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And therein lies my point about the "ad nauseum" thing.

I don't want you to stop posting, but I have to say that "KBSG sucks, K-Hits is the best" gets old. Your point is crystal-clear.

It's the unreasonable expectation you have about KBSG not doing at least basic research on what they do is insane. Oldies stations in Seattle, Portland, Houston, San Francisco, Dallas, New York....they're going to be different. Just because KBSG does not cater to your rigid specifications doesn't warrant constant reminder that they "need" to emulate K-Hits.

And to think that a station is unaware whether they are on the air or not is crazy. Stations have been able to automatically contact engineering staff about down carriers for at least 20 years now. Even in the days of "false ends" on records, I've gotten calls from engineers asking what happened. And this was well before hard drives and voicetracking took over. Engineers don't sleep at the transmitter sites (though if you knew the engineering history of KBSG, this station could be the exception).

And lastly, citing a down carrier, then running to this board four minutes later to "report" a station being off the air is not natural. When I hear a station that's off the air, I usually move on to something else. Sure, I'll tune back once in awhile to hear when they come back, but I certainly wouldn't run to Radio-Info to make pot-shots at a station over early Sunday morning programming. That's the point of my post.
 
Oh good grief AQH. Your replies are such a big BORE, and I am new to this site. There have been a few times in the past that I have contacted a station with information about their station being off the air or their DJs mics being on and their voices being heard during songs, or some other glitch and they were clueless and appreciated the heads up. Like Grindlfan I am not a know-it-all radio insider either, but I am guessing that on a Sunday morning they don't have much staff at the station. Perhaps only an engineer? Who knows if they're aware of any problems. I think they'd appreciate a listener making the effort to let them know.
 
Oscar

Since you admit to being new, allow me to fill you in: AQH is one of the better, more knowledgeable, more accurate posters on this board.
 
So here's the ultimate kiss-of-death: I am liking what they have done to the station.

Jingles are crisp without trying hard to sound like "anti-Jingles" (a Reelworld staple, it seems)

Music mix is fairly broad with regard to decades...just hoping it doesn't get stale for being too limited

Jocks have balance of relevant comments while keeping music flow going (vs. just liner reading and making it "all about the music")


I am assuming because I like it....it will be off-the-air by Labor Day!! That's usually what happened every time I liked a new song on playlist....BAM....gone ('thanks to listener focus groups') within 14 days... But for my tastes, it's a great presentation of taking a "tired" format and breathing some decent elements into it so it still has some relevance and shelf life. How do the rest of you like it so far?
 
Oscar6man said:
Oh good grief AQH. Your replies are such a big BORE, and I am new to this site. There have been a few times in the past that I have contacted a station with information about their station being off the air or their DJs mics being on and their voices being heard during songs, or some other glitch and they were clueless and appreciated the heads up. Like Grindlfan I am not a know-it-all radio insider either, but I am guessing that on a Sunday morning they don't have much staff at the station. Perhaps only an engineer? Who knows if they're aware of any problems. I think they'd appreciate a listener making the effort to let them know.
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Grindlfan + Oscar6fan = Same person, obviously! Pretty sad when you gotta make up another account to post agreeing with your own posts;)

pbf1 said:
Since you admit to being new, allow me to fill you in: AQH is one of the better, more knowledgeable, more accurate posters on this board.
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Agreed. Very knowledgeable of the industry.
 
yoyo205 said:
Oscar6man said:
Oh good grief AQH. Your replies are such a big BORE, and I am new to this site. There have been a few times in the past that I have contacted a station with information about their station being off the air or their DJs mics being on and their voices being heard during songs, or some other glitch and they were clueless and appreciated the heads up. Like Grindlfan I am not a know-it-all radio insider either, but I am guessing that on a Sunday morning they don't have much staff at the station. Perhaps only an engineer? Who knows if they're aware of any problems. I think they'd appreciate a listener making the effort to let them know.
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Grindlfan + Oscar6fan = Same person, obviously! Pretty sad when you gotta make up another account to post agreeing with your own posts;)

pbf1 said:
Since you admit to being new, allow me to fill you in: AQH is one of the better, more knowledgeable, more accurate posters on this board.
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Agreed. Very knowledgeable of the industry.
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Yoyo, you are incorrect. I have no idea who Oscar is nor do I need anyone fighting my battles for me. This is not a battle because I dropped this thread after my last comment because I couldn't care less what AQH thinks about my posts. Like I said, anyone who doesn't like my posts doesn't have to read them. Funny though, many do agree with me. Real radio listeners that is.You guys all crack me up. You think you know everything about everybody on this site. You're so brilliant that you have every nick name figured out. It isn't any wonder that most radio sucks with guys like you involved in it. Well, most radio except for K-HITS in Portland. (That K HITS mention was for you AQH!) :-*
 
There are a multitude of reasons stations go off the air. Some of the major ones are lack of power at either the studio or transmitter site. In these cases, sometimes generators help, sometimes they don't. There are also STL (studio transmitter links) that can go bad, automation not properly programmed, logs not loaded and merged within the automation system, the list goes on and on.

The main point is most radio stations today, both big and small have nobody on site on a late Saturday or early Sunday. I'm not excusing this, it is just reality. Hopefully, most stations have built in cell-phone alert systems notifying the proper people of the problem so they can correct it as quickly as possible.
 
Dead air on FM but the stream still working makes me guess an STL issue. (Been there, had that problem...)
 
I would like to apologize to the people at KBSG for refering to them as bozos in my original post on this thread. It was out of line and undeserved.
 
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