WCRB Transition Audio?

[JustinT]

Anyone get a chance to record the sign-on/sign-off?

 

[jlehmann]

I was recording both complete days. Here is the sign off and sign on.

http://home.comcast.net/~jjlehmann/WCRB-SignOff.mp3

http://home.comcast.net/~jjlehmann/WCRB-SignOn.mp3

 

[beantownradio25]

Thank you for these!

 

[Deleted User]

Nice to see the broadcast professionals at the new WCRB have no idea how to do a "legal ID" at sign on.

no where did I hear "WCRB Lowell " said.

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

Anyone get a chance to record the sign-on/sign-off?

I didn't record it, but at 5am, 89.7 ended a jazz piece (IIRC), went to "BBC World News" (or whatever it's called), then halfway through the first or second sentence, a brief tone followed by a couple of seconds of dead air, then Laura Carlo gave a live read of 99.5's sign-on, "as WCRB begins its broadcast day"——again, this is on 89.7——then some classical piece until about 5:12, at which point the BBC cut back in for good (though a couple of times over the next few minutes, classical mx suddenly played over the BBC momentarily): Obviously, the 89.7-99.5 feeds needed to be straightened out! P=)

 

[4CX1000A]

That last piece of music, after Mark Edwards' sign-off message, was "Gute Nacht, o Wesen" ("Good night, existence") from J.S. Bach's motet "Jesu, meine Freude" ("Jesus, my joy"), BWV 229.

 

[mescutia]

That last piece of music, after Mark Edwards' sign-off message, was "Gute Nacht, o Wesen" ("Good night, existence") from J.S. Bach's motet "Jesu, meine Freude" ("Jesus, my joy"), BWV 229.

Thanks for the info. That piece was great.

 

[Rusty Muck]

Nice to see the broadcast professionals at the new WCRB have no idea how to do a "legal ID" at sign on.

no where did I hear "WCRB Lowell " said.

The announcer did say "licensed to the city of Lowell," even though that doesn't really count. The broadcast sign-on message is a lost art.

 

[kc1ih]

It's licensed to Lowell but the transmitter is in Tewksbury.

 

[Don Juan]

It's licensed to Lowell but the transmitter is in Tewksbury.

I thought it was actually Andover.

 

[ThatGuyOnTheRadio]

...and that has to do with not saying the legal, how?

if the COL is Lowell-- that's all they have to say if they want.

 

[4CX1000A]

Unless the rules have changed since I last looked, the only things that can go between the call letters and city of license are: the frequency or channel number, and the name of the licensee.

Hence, the following are all legal: "WHRB, Cambridge"; "WHRB, 95.3 Cambridge"; "WHRB, Harvard Radio Broadcasting, Cambridge"; or "WHRB, channel 237, Cambridge."

The old WEEI 590 used to identify itself as "WEEI, CBS in Boston, News Radio 59".

The most creative use of a top-of-hour ID I've heard of was a station licensed to Eaton, Ohio, but serving the Dayton market; it would say "W[whatever] Eatin' Dayton Alive."

 

[Ai4i]

Interesting to note how the new WCRB and New York's new WQXR have taken very different approaches.
WCRB has gone largely with MPR's Classical 24 while WQXR has remained fully local.

 

[12 In a Row]

According to the FCC rules a legal ID is, call letters immediately followed by the city of license. You can place branding and other cities served before and after the legal.

 

[Ai4i]

According to the FCC rules a legal ID is, call letters immediately followed by the city of license. You can place branding and other cities served before and after the legal.

Give this man a cigar...and it has been this way for half a century!

 

[Don Juan]

According to the FCC rules a legal ID is, call letters immediately followed by the city of license. You can place branding and other cities served before and after the legal.

Give this man a cigar...and it has been this way for half a century!

This is not correct (anymore?).

You can now insert frequency: "WJR - 760AM - Detroit" or company "WBZ - Westinghouse Broadcasting Boston"

The FCC has lightened up on that actual rule....and now that rule ranks near the bottom for things the FCC actually cares about. (Heck, pirate operators operate with impunity, do you think they care about legal ID's?)

 

[Laurence Glavin]

Interesting to note how the new WCRB and New York's new WQXR have taken very different approaches.
WCRB has gone largely with MPR's Classical 24 while WQXR has remained fully local.

According to the website www.classical-scene.org WCRB will eventually add some locally-programmed music in the months to come. They already have a program on their schedule on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm featuring music recorded in their in-house concert hall.

 

[Don Juan]

Interesting to note how the new WCRB and New York's new WQXR have taken very different approaches.
WCRB has gone largely with MPR's Classical 24 while WQXR has remained fully local.

I am under the impression that WCRB is live and local All day long from 6AM to 7PM.

I would also assume some time in the future the evening show would have a local host.

I have no problem with MPR's Classical 24 on the overnights. (It's a good product.)

 

[Ai4i]

I am under the impression that WCRB is live and local All day long from 6AM to 7PM.
I have no problem with MPR's Classical 24 on the overnights. (It's a good product.)

You are correct, when I saw those all-too familiar names, didn't notice the associated times.
I used to hear Laura and the other announcers on the WBach network when I was in Maine.
Classical 24 announcers are adequate but sound generic to me.

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

legal ID's

We do a traditional legal ID (call letters directly followed by city of license)
at exactly the top of each hour, on both of our stations here. The automation plays it at
hour:00:00. That way there is never any doubt, never any question. Also, we play
it straight. WAZN. Watertown. --- WLYN. Lynn. We don't do, like: Lynn, Boston, New England, THE WORLD!
or nonsense like that. I guess I am just a traditional kind of guy. I am, however, considering
adding in a Morse code ID as well, to run during certain times of the day.
The ham in me thinks that would be wicked cool! ;D

73, de WA1RFF