I'm not sure if they have to pay for RDS or not and I would also assume that since K-LOVE is a national format and everything is fed by satellite, ISDN, internet, multiple tin cans cans with a string stretching here and there, there might be an issue with running multiple stations with one RDS system feeding everything out [unless it's just artist and song title] If they wanted local RDS stuff, they might have to re-jigger some stuff on the local end to get it to display? I don't know much about RDS, I was out of radio long before that was even a gleam in some engineer's eye. Only thing that pisses me off about it is when I go to see what the name of an artist/song might be, I see an ad scrolling for "Billy Sue Bob's BBQ/lube stop/Viagra emporium with free hose down every 10th visit."
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The Fish 95.5 sold to KLove.
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I suspect that’s temporary until K-Love engineers fully transition from Salem’s facility to their own equipment. The K-Love stations I’ve seen display full PAD and RDS data.
I am sure soon they will move all the audio processesing, satellite receiver and the EAS box to the tower site. No need for any local presence. I always wonder do they switch to a streaming signal during "sunfade"? Of course they might have a "backup" satellite which wouldn't be a bad idea to have.
On my car radio, WKLV and K-Love are displayed, but that's the extent of it right now. Also of interest, the Top of the Hour ID only mentions WKLV, Cleveland and there even was a local sweep that aired, and was expertly inserted.
Same goes for WMJI-HD2. No artist or song info, just a "Positive, Encouraging, K-Love" tagline.
I know people like to crap on K-Love, but their stations generally sound well engineered. Tight production too.
Someone was able to aircheck the handover to K-Love and it was a very seamless, tasteful switch. (Similar imaging took place in Atlanta where that Fish flipped to Air1, as well as at KLTY Dallas.)
A lot of people here complain about K-Love not being local to each market so they are not happy. But the Salem-owned music stations had so many commercials I could not stand to listen to them even if I liked Christian music so I am glad they were sold to K-Love Inc. because they are non-commercial. I tried to listen to the Salem stations before they went away but I could not get past all the commercials. From Salem's perspective, they probably wished they had more commercials to pay off their debt. However, the Salem stations had better ratings I think than K-Love when both were in the same market because people like local announcers and local content I guess. I also wonder if by listening to a commercial station people do not have to be made to feel guilty if they do not financially support the non-commercial station of the same format.
I didn't exactly remember correctly. The RDS displays 95.5 and K-Love. The actual call letters aren't there.
Modern digital automation and audio systems work amazingly well if someone reads the manual and learns how to program it properly. The advantage of a network is you only need one system and one or two capable staff who know what they're doing and it will sound good world wide. When each individual station has its own system and maybe doesn't have people who really understand how it works or have the time to tend to it and maintain it, you get a lot of the glitches and garbage we often hear. GIGO.💻
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It depends on the receiver. On my HD one, it still shows WFHM in smaller print as well as what you reported in larger print.
I honestly don't listen a ton. My wife is a listener to that format more than I am. I heard some hosts on K Love. I m assuming they are on the whole network much like the hosts are for Sirius stations? I wonder if next year come Christmas they will go all Christmas like the Fish did
Thank God that December is a big nfl month so got sports talk because i hate Christmas music and Christian radio loses me til january
I don't hate Christmas music I listen to it here and there. Now sports talk is another thing. All football all the time 24/7/365. That is something I will never understand ever. Why Cleveland is so fascinated with this garbage NFL franchise when you have two other teams in town with winning records and all the sports talk stations do is talk Browns non stop I can't listen.
When you do a traffic report, what gets more coverage - a smooth commute or a 10 car wreck?
Same idea with sports.
So you're saying there's a chance?
Short answer - I believe likely until the FCC transfer is complete K-Love's likely running through Salem's facility which means they are not passing RDS at this time.
Once EMF engineering has a chance to get a rack in place at the 95.5 Transmitter site and move the satellite feed to there you will get artist-title on 95.5.
Down here in Columbus, OH when EMF took over 102.5 back on 11/1 they had just a static "K-Love" for RDS for a week or so then finally started sending artist-title data so it's a matter of EMF's engineering getting in and getting all the ducks in a row.
EMF "K-Love" takes their engineering pretty seriously and don't skimp on audio processing at the local transmitter site, solid satellite signal, and the technology needed to make their FM's stand out from the studio side to when it reaches the listener. They actually staff a 24/7 Network Ops Center (NOC) to monitor their on-air programming and transmitter sites.
It was interesting to see them do the "transition clips" which aired out of the Salem Fish automation systems before they transitioned into the K-Love satellite feed. I was told by someone else that the stations transitioned out of "Praises" (that song that started after the legal ID which is part of the transition file that played out of The Fish automation) into K-Love "in progress"
Would say these transitions were some of the cleaner EMF transitions I have heard - Generally at the stroke of midnight on most EMF flips you just jump right into the satellite feed in progress.
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