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WABC - What happened to Lionel, 2-5 am weekends

KilowattKat said:
Yep, those rants are Walter at his best. Some other great ones...dealing with AT&T customer service, Walmart delivery, and when he had to deal with the public school system in regards to his autistic daughter. It's a great balance to the UFO and conspiracy stuff.
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It's bad enough actually having to deal with that stuff so I don't want to hear about it in the middle of the night! I don't find Sterling interesting at all but I guess it's a matter of taste.
 
Brings up a couple of questions:

-- Is First Take a good show?

-- Are there any other late night talk shows out there worth checking out?

It would be good to have options other than Noory, Red Eye and Sterling.
 
TheBigA said:
Next Take. Hosted by University of Pittsburg students:

pitttothepoint.com

"KDKA Next Take" Revolutionizes Overnight Radio with Pitt Student Hosts - Pitt To The Point

In a bold move to redefine radio for younger audiences, Pittsburgh's historic KDKA-AM 1020, now rebroadcast on FM at 100.1 MHz, has launched "KDKA Next Take," a news, information, and talk program hosted by University of Pittsburgh students.
pitttothepoint.com pitttothepoint.com
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What an interesting idea...giving a time slot to college students to do a news and talk program. I will definitely give this a listen. Didn't KFI try this at one time?
 
TheBigA said:
Those three words could be applied to most technical people I've dealt with over the years.
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Unfortunate. Understanding the tech side has given me many, many advantages over the years that made a difference competitively. From being the first in my market with the Audimax/Volumax combo back in the 60’s to being taught how to create a listener interactive website in 1995, I had tools that made my stations better for the listener.
 
TheBigA said:
Me too. I spent a year as a union engineer in NYC. I learned just enough to be dangerous.
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The term “union engineer“ in most markets, and with most people meant the same as “board up“. The most technical that any got was registering meter readings.

I am talking about anything from the ability to reach schematics to the understanding of different modulation technologies to the differences between the numbers of antenna elements for FM stations. In other words, that means being able to tell in at least moderate detail, the difference between an 833 and a four 4-400-A (and knowing that a better version of the ladder tube is the QB-4-1100.
 
Weiserguy said:
I did not. But in fairness, the Apple store staff can be infuriatingly dense, uncooperative and bureaucratic. Not everyone has a 50,000 watt blowtorch to vent his frustrations on. (Regardless of how many, or few, may be listening at that hour.)
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His description of his interaction with the Apple Store employee if true was pretty funny. I cannot imagine me at age 19 in 1981 telling a customer at the Sears I worked at "it's my way or the highway". If I did so I would've been fired immediately and escorted out by store security. :ROFLMAO:
 
TheBigA said:
Next Take. Hosted by University of Pittsburg students:
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KilowattKat said:
What an interesting idea...giving a time slot to college students to do a news and talk program. I will definitely give this a listen.
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And I did...

First the positive. The students are intelligent and well versed in the hot button topics they discuss in depth.

Now, the negative Someone needs to help them with the overall presentation and production of it. Especially the presentation...it is so bland and boring that it makes NPR sound like a New Year's Eve party. And really, they could use some tips on how to annunciate and present themselves for better radio listening. Volume levels are always up and down, finally got tired of always having to adjust the volume trying to listen.

So overall it was disappointing and unlistenable.
 
KilowattKat said:
Volume levels are always up and down, finally got tired of always having to adjust the volume trying to listen.
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That's a universal problem with streaming. For whatever reason there's no processing so levels are all over the place. I have my own processor on my computer that takes care of it. It cost me a whopping $30.00!
 


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