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Tom Kent on WODS often only one stereo channel

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Eli Polonsky

Anyone notice that the syndicated Tom Kent show on Oldies 103.3 (weeknights 7 PM-12 MID) is often presented with only one stereo channel of the music being fed to both channels of the audio?

It's often like only L or R is panned to L & R.

I don't know if the board-op simply doesn't set the pan pot selector on the board properly, or if there's a recurring chronic problem with the feed, but it sounds really bad. Last night Kent played "Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles on which the vocals are only produced on one stereo channel, which wasn't the one channel being aired on WODS, so Boston got an instrumental version of the song!

Once in a while someone gets it right some nights, and the show airs in full stereo sometimes, but it seems that more often it's only one channel being fed to both. I would think that this would be an embarrassment for a high profile major-market CBS station like WODS, but I've been hearing it happen frequently on that show for a number of months now.
 
I noticed it last night when Yellow Submarine was played. I did not think to check 101.5 to see if it was the same or not.
 
I've noticed this too--some songs almost sound like they could be a remix/alternate version as a result.
Very noticeable on 60s tunes (one obvious one would be Monday, Monday, where you might either get the
lead vocal or the backups (slightly later). In the past I would do remakes of Kinks or Beatles songs in
which I took an adapter that bridged one speaker out of the phono or CD into BOTH speakers (For example,
the Beatles-spoofing Rutles had a song called Doubleback Alley, which a nod to Penny Lane. Instead of
starting with Neil Innes vocal, I'd start with the piano, etc. on the other speaker then go to his vocal,
and I'd also create a different "bridge" of the song, etc.

Anyway this is kind of the effect you get on Tom Kent when some songs are one speaker bridged into
both speakers.
 
If there is no live person watching the store during automated shifts. The actual live person on the air. Before the start of any automated programming, should check to make sure everything is properly set before leaving the studio. Does this always happen? Heck no!!!
 
Power Of Radio said:
If there is no live person watching the store during automated shifts. The actual live person on the air. Before the start of any automated programming, should check to make sure everything is properly set before leaving the studio. Does this always happen? Heck no!!!
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Maybe they let so many people go that there's nobody left to watch the computers.
 
Obviously another CBS cost cutting measure. They laid off the left channel.
 
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