The True Oldies Channel can now be heard on 92.3 WINS-FM HD3. It replaces Channel Q, which can still be heard on 102.7 WNEW-FM HD3.
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The True Oldies Channel has returned to HD
- Thread starter MichaelD1972
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Channel Q continues on WNEW-FM HD2, not HD3.
How is the quality of the HD3? I know the bit rate is usually lower on 3 than on HD2
If you listen to the YT clips, they're playing the Oldies Channel on the HD3.
I sometimes listen to an HD3 on a local station here in Seattle that plays oldies & standards, playing their sister AM station (KIXI 880, 106.9 HD3). It sounds OK. For room listening, it's allright. The KING-FM Christmas Classical Music channel is an HD3, it also sounds OK.
I suppose if you compared them directly with an HD1 you'd notice a difference, but you'd have to listen for it. Most uses, it works.
Better than anything on AM analog.
You can assign different bit rates to the different HD channels. In theory HD 3 could have a higher bit rate than HD 2. Especially if a HD channel is leased to feed a FM Translator and the tenant doesn't "direct wire" the translator.
Yes! Thank you for bringing The True Oldies Channel back in New York City for now. Thanks a lot.
Wow
And, as you know, The True Oldies Channel (TOC) is hosted by none other than the legendary Scott Shannon, who recently retired from WCBS-FM 101.1
Now he can devote his full efforts to the TOC, and I've noticed the improvement. I've been a long-time listener to the TOC, since it's the best place to hear 60s/70s, with almost no 80s, tunes, although he does occasionally bring in a 50s tune.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Much as I like Shannon, I wonder what his plan is long term, as the audience (literally) dies off.
He is in that demo. He should be good financially so he can play what he wants and not worry about "money demos". Streaming stations don't come with legacy debt, tower rent, and other OTA expensives.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
It's not entirely his decision to make. He is still dependent on distribution to terrestrial stations by USRN, and if they decide the revenue isn't enough to keep the expense ... well ... I hope for his sake that being a streamer is going to be enough for him.
I have always wondered why someone hasn't figured out how record 15 minute or so program blocks of a show then send it to the affiliates. Your could do the show 20 or 30 minutes ahead. Stations in the Central saves the files for an hour, Mountain 2 hours Pacific 3 hours etc. perfect day parts.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
It can be done. The question is why.
Much of what's out there in syndication doesn't have a time-sensitive component.
Much of what's out there in syndication doesn't have a time-sensitive component.
its been done for 2 decades or more
before Westwood one, there was Waitt Radio owned by NRG, and that localization system then got sold to WW1
And around 2014 came LRN.
I cant legally get into specifics, but both systems from LRN and WW1 operate in the same manner from a technical stand point.. the music, the imaging, liners, everything sits on a computer at the station and jocks VT breaks, that are pushed right to that same station computer
If True Oldies isnt being done that way, it should be.
Even the satellite formats from Westwood one that are on traditional actual satellite are mostly voicetracked these days
It seems Shannon does record new breaks for TOC. He sometimes refers to something recent. He also will tell us what was played, both the most recent song and the song before it. I guess the computer could play the same two songs back-to-back and he could give the same outro now and three months from now. But that would be a lot of work. For "This Day in Music History," that likely is something he did once and each of the 365 editions gets rolled out every year on the same day.
Todd Pettingill complained about something when co-hosting mornings with Shannon on WPLJ. Pettingill said sometimes, while a couple of songs were playing live on 95.5, Shannon would be recording breaks for TOC. He claims occasionally they had to let another song play on WPLJ if Shannon wasn't finished with his TOC work. So it's clear Shannon enjoys what he does on TOC. Of course, that was a decade ago.
Thanks for writing in code. I have little idea it is you're trying to say. But I'm probably in the minority here.
He’s talking about voicetracking and overcomplicating it
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