I've heard of a few stations where they simulcast audio from a local TV stations newscast. What do you guys of this idea?
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If the idea is to keep the lights on and license active, (especially with an AM station) then you could probably pull it off. If the idea is to make a profit, then I doubt the idea would present much value.
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That happened in Miami back in the mid 90s.....it *can* be a bit annoying, as it seems that the TV station in question will not mention (via audio) that an interview with a newsmaker is coming....or even worse, the weatherman saying "and, as you see here----"
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Cheapens radio, sounds awful and gives the TV station a 30 minute commercial.
Oh, same applies to using a TV weather person.
We're just radio, if you want the weather do what we do, tune to TV.
We're just radio, if you want the weather do what we do, tune to TV.
ESPN Radio has been simulcasting College Football Game Day from TV the last few weeks. Many segments make no sense.
You get the same thing from FSR on Sunday mornings as they are once again this year airing the audio from FOX NFL Sunday. Total garbage to listen to especially when they are referencing highlights.
When I lived in San Diego in the 70's or maybe it was the 80's, there was an AM station that switched call letters and called themselves KCNN and simulcasted CNN news with the news reporters & commercials. The audio quality was terrible and it grew very stale. The format lasted less than six months.
Not totally relevant but might be of interest.
There's a local TV station here which broadcasts on channel 6. The audio carrier is of course 87.7 FM, so periodically they air a commercial saying something like "don't miss your favorite shows, news, etc.." and to tune into 87.7 FM anywhere.
I don't know how many people use it. I will turn it on periodically for the news if nothing else is on at that time, or if I am missing the beginning of a show I really wanted to see... listening to shows is even more difficult than news.
I guess this will all come to an end once the DTV transition rolls around here in Canada.
Also worth noting that I can hear the TV 'pilot tone' around 15k while tuned in on an FM radio, makes for an even more realistic viewing experience ;D
There's a local TV station here which broadcasts on channel 6. The audio carrier is of course 87.7 FM, so periodically they air a commercial saying something like "don't miss your favorite shows, news, etc.." and to tune into 87.7 FM anywhere.
I don't know how many people use it. I will turn it on periodically for the news if nothing else is on at that time, or if I am missing the beginning of a show I really wanted to see... listening to shows is even more difficult than news.
I guess this will all come to an end once the DTV transition rolls around here in Canada.
Also worth noting that I can hear the TV 'pilot tone' around 15k while tuned in on an FM radio, makes for an even more realistic viewing experience ;D
In the Raleigh-Durham market, we used to be able to near NBC programming on 87.7 thanks to WECT-TV 6 in the next-door Wilmington market, a unique convergeance of physics, allocations and affiliation that allowed you to hear NBC Nightly News or SNL if you weren't home in time...at least until 8/8/08, when Wilmington became the nation's pilot DTV market.
Their analong tower, the tallest in North Carolina, sits close to Fayetteville, in the market's southern corner, but you could still near the WECT audio even in places where you couldn't regularly see them on TV. After 8/8/08, 87.7 was just faint, occasional CBS audio from WTVR-TV in Richmond until 6/12/09. Now, save for Raul's ramblings from Havana occasionally in the summertime E-skip season, 87.7 is silent.
WECT took a major hit in its out-of-market coverage area with the switch from analog to DTV, though parent company Raycom started an NBC affiliate in one of those affected areas the same day, WMBF in Myrtle Beach (WECT and another Raycom station, WIS in Columbia, had served as the Myrtle Beach-Florence market's de facto NBC affiliates prior to WMBF's sign-on).
Their analong tower, the tallest in North Carolina, sits close to Fayetteville, in the market's southern corner, but you could still near the WECT audio even in places where you couldn't regularly see them on TV. After 8/8/08, 87.7 was just faint, occasional CBS audio from WTVR-TV in Richmond until 6/12/09. Now, save for Raul's ramblings from Havana occasionally in the summertime E-skip season, 87.7 is silent.
WECT took a major hit in its out-of-market coverage area with the switch from analog to DTV, though parent company Raycom started an NBC affiliate in one of those affected areas the same day, WMBF in Myrtle Beach (WECT and another Raycom station, WIS in Columbia, had served as the Myrtle Beach-Florence market's de facto NBC affiliates prior to WMBF's sign-on).
It still seems to crop up from time to time, especially if the TV and radio station are co-owned.
In Memphis, the city public library owns a 100,000 reading service station (reading to cows, mostly) that carries the WMC-TV evening news and NBC Nightly News.
What's interesting is this is not an SCA service - the main channel is reading radio and other public interest programs, put on by the public library system.
In Memphis, the city public library owns a 100,000 reading service station (reading to cows, mostly) that carries the WMC-TV evening news and NBC Nightly News.
What's interesting is this is not an SCA service - the main channel is reading radio and other public interest programs, put on by the public library system.
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