WBT Pat McCrory

[CharlotteListener]

They gave him another hour?
The whiny, grammar-butchering victim gets to infest the airwaves for 60 more minutes.

Off my presets they go.
You can even tell Bo is sick of him already.

 

[tylerSC]

They gave him another hour?
The whiny, grammar-butchering victim gets to infest the airwaves for 60 more minutes.

Off my presets they go.
You can even tell Bo is sick of him already.

I don't quite understand this unless they are getting good ratings. I hear him say it is the fastest growing show on Charlotte radio. But as a former Governor and Mayor of Charlotte, I understand his role as a political commentator. But unlike Rush Limbaugh and others, he just is not a good radio host and cannot seem to carry his own show without a moderator such as Bo Thompson. But he also has a national recurring role on NBC for Meet the Press, so he is valued as a conservative commentator. I just don't think he is good at hosting his own show. He does not even feature listener call ins like Limbaugh and Vince Coakley which would make the show more entertaining.

 

[Steve.Gates]

I don't quite understand this unless they are getting good ratings. I hear him say it is the fastest growing show on Charlotte radio. But as a former Governor and Mayor of Charlotte, I understand his role as a political commentator. But unlike Rush Limbaugh and others, he just is not a good radio host and cannot seem to carry his own show without a moderator such as Bo Thompson. But he also has a national recurring role on NBC for Meet the Press, so he is valued as a conservative commentator. I just don't think he is good at hosting his own show. He does not even feature listener call ins like Limbaugh and Vince Coakley which would make the show more entertaining.

I cannot listen to WBT 1110 AM any more. When I tune in, it sounds like everyone is talking through a tin can. The Audio Quality is absolutely horrible. What they have done equipment-wise I do not know, but I do know that it sounds terrible. Steve.

 

[Retspin]

I cannot listen to WBT 1110 AM any more. When I tune in, it sounds like everyone is talking through a tin can. The Audio Quality is absolutely horrible. What they have done equipment-wise I do not know, but I do know that it sounds terrible. Steve.

They are using a Voltair box on the station audio. The Neilson rating service uses PPM devices in the bigger markets instead of a diary. The people in the survey wear the PPM device and the PPM picks up the inaudible digital code embedded in the radio station audio. The station data is then recorded in the PPM device for Neilson. The Voltair is a $15,000 box that went on the market years after the PPM system came out, and it is designed to simply boost the PPM codes embedded at the station so the PPM's can pick it easier and get a boost in station ratings. But it has nasty artifacts and that's what you are hearing on WBT. To me sounds like listening through a PVC pipe held up to my ear. I now can't listen lots of stations now because the audio is to irritating. It is worse on stations with talk programming, either AM or FM, they are equally bad, but music will mask it somewhat. Just tune across the AM band at night and listen to the big 50KW stations like WABC, WOR, WCBS etc, and they will all sound like a PVC pipe. It's a shame, I don't think the really care how they sound anymore.

I don't work in broadcast I simply researched this on the internet, because I wanted to know why radio was becoming more and more unlistenable to me. Stations in smaller markets still use the dairy system and they sound much better, they don't have to worry about Voltair.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I happened to be on this station to hear them talking about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I don't know who the other person was, and isn't McCrory kind of old to have opinions about Def Leppard? He seemed to think they didn't belong, and kept playing "Pour Some Sugar on Me", which was particularly annoying considering the closest thing Charlotte has to easy listening these days was playing "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks and I was getting away from that. McCrory was arguing for Chicago, over and over, and played part of "25 or 6 to 4" but not a part I recognized. I don't think he even got the song title right. One thing I did agree about was Janet Jackson. I only know of one rock hit she had, "Black Cat". Even her brother had three rock hits that i know of, "Beat It", "Smooth Criminal" and "Dirty Diana". There may be others that I didn't know could be defined as rock.