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Turmoil at Z88.3

This is sad, I remember about the time it launched. I just spent a week in Daytona but I did not drive all week and my portable hd radio did not work too well in my room but i listened some while driving to my room and coming back home. I really hope things behind the scenes of The Joy FM and K Love are way better.
 
MarquisP4 said:
It. Gets. Uglier. Now WPOZ has hired a PR company and is calling the employee expose a smear campaign
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The manager was always what I would call a salmon: swimming against the current.

For years, he made Orlando look like a very poor radio market by not PPM encoding a station that had around a 5 share. Stations, even if not subscribed, are asked to encode so that total radio usage looks as close to reality as possible. But WPOZ decided not to encode, making the whole market suffer.
 
David, do you think that was a unilateral decision not to encode, or could another entity have provided him with some incentive not to... as I recall when they did encode they were #1 or very close to the top.
 
Parttimer said:
David, do you think that was a unilateral decision not to encode, or could another entity have provided him with some incentive not to... as I recall when they did encode they were #1 or very close to the top.
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If memory serves me correctly WPOZ turned off their encoder on all of their stations because somebody over there didn't like the way the station (or in their case station's) sounded with the encoder on. It supposedly messes with the sound although there are ways around that. Supposedly they had within the past year turned the encoders back on, but still do not subscribe to the ratings even though in the diary markets surrounding Orlando they still show up. I remember when they were originally encoding their HD subchannels (the ones they had at the time) would even show up although the majority of the listeners to those were listening to their FM translators. I wonder if they'll re-subscribe now if the new owners of WNUE continue to subscribe in order to show sponsors who underwrite them what their ratings are.
 
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