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This being the radio station HOT as in WHOT in Youngstown.

This is something I noticed a few weeks ago, but it was much worse today, so rant mode on.

Hey HOT 101,
Do you realize you still have a radio station? Cause at many times today, it was rather hard to tell.
Every third event that played was extremely quiet, very muddy, distorted sounding.
Let's call that Pot 1 on the board.
Pot 2 was fine
Pot 3 had the same problem as Pot 1...AND it was very off balance to boot.

I don't know if these are the actual pots on the board as I do not work for HOT, this is strictly for illustrative purposes.

OK. I am not finished.
Everytime the jock would crack the mic, (This was in the 1pm hour I believe), the audio was once again, very quiet, off balance, distorted.

And I do mean quiet. You had to crank the radio up to hear the station.

Memo to HOT 101...this sounds like crap!
You can tell me it's a temporary porblem...but it has been like this for weeks. It was simply worse today.
Youngstown may be a small market, but no station should sound this bad.
Anyone who heard it (even average radio listeners, trust me, it was bad) would notice a problem.

So, any top brass at Cumulus that happen to lurk on the board here...you might want to see what's going on at your Youngstown cluster. Because the product coming out sounds like garbage.

50,000 watts of Today's Hottest Music...that you can almost hear if you crank your radio WAYYYYY up. HOT 101.
 
Sounds Like

Sounds like the quality of a station I used to work for in Northeast Pennsylvania, North of Allentown (WMGH/WLSH) I have since moved on to bigger and better things.<P ID="signature">______________
-John</P>
 
Hey Captain O...

They had a complete board failure following a power spike...

You are correct...the audio was sub-standard for that day.

They were on a temp setup throughout most of the day. The board, power supply, and UPS were finally restored to service around 7PM. Massive repairs like that completed in one day is not too shabby.

Other facilities have suffered similar outages. The CC cluster in Canton comes to mind in the recent past.

As far as lousy audio going on for weeks....I would beg to differ. WHOT's new studio facility was placed online in late August. Their audio has never sounded better. I trust you are listening to the same station I am...and I would respectfully put my credentials up against yours any day.

I don't know where you are listening, or what grade of signal you recive, or what kind of tuner you use...but within the WHOT service contours the audio quality is very high...on any equipment.

As far as loudness in general...WHOT is in compliance with maximum modulation regulations.

Listen again...you may be surprised if you can shed your negative bias.

ghzz


> This being the radio station HOT as in WHOT in Youngstown.
>
> This is something I noticed a few weeks ago, but it was much
> worse today, so rant mode on.
>
> Hey HOT 101,
> Do you realize you still have a radio station? Cause at many
> times today, it was rather hard to tell.
> Every third event that played was extremely quiet, very
> muddy, distorted sounding.
> Let's call that Pot 1 on the board.
> Pot 2 was fine
> Pot 3 had the same problem as Pot 1...AND it was very off
> balance to boot.
>
> I don't know if these are the actual pots on the board as I
> do not work for HOT, this is strictly for illustrative
> purposes.
>
> OK. I am not finished.
> Everytime the jock would crack the mic, (This was in the 1pm
> hour I believe), the audio was once again, very quiet, off
> balance, distorted.
>
> And I do mean quiet. You had to crank the radio up to hear
> the station.
>
> Memo to HOT 101...this sounds like crap!
> You can tell me it's a temporary porblem...but it has been
> like this for weeks. It was simply worse today.
> Youngstown may be a small market, but no station should
> sound this bad.
> Anyone who heard it (even average radio listeners, trust me,
> it was bad) would notice a problem.
>
> So, any top brass at Cumulus that happen to lurk on the
> board here...you might want to see what's going on at your
> Youngstown cluster. Because the product coming out sounds
> like garbage.
>
> 50,000 watts of Today's Hottest Music...that you can almost
> hear if you crank your radio WAYYYYY up. HOT 101.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
employed by a big broadcorping castration</P>
 
>
> As far as lousy audio going on for weeks....I would beg to
> differ. WHOT's new studio facility was placed online in late
> August. Their audio has never sounded better. I trust you
> are listening to the same station I am...and I would
> respectfully put my credentials up against yours any day.
>

I'd assume you work in the building then. But I noticed it the other night as well. Only on every 3rd event. Audio was noticeably more quiet.
However, it sounded much better in the car tonight.
Audio has never sounded better? Ehh, it's better than it used to be, that's for sure. It downright sucked back around 1999 and 2000.
 
> WHOT's new studio facility was placed online in late
> August.

Oh, say it ain't so?
I hope they stick that straight-out-of-the-1950's board in a museum or something...that is history right there.
 
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