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WCRS-LP/WCRX-LP timeshare
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I've requested that the newsletter be e-mailed to you, and as you'll see, it's a sentence or two about "Secrets" that's included in it and not a full-blown article. Still, I'm very grateful!
I think WCRS is awaiting FCC approval of its new timeshare agreement with WCRX before it goes ahead with the expanded hours. It's also my understanding that ALL past program proposals, even ones going back two or three years, are again being reviewed and evaluated, so it may be some time even after FCC approval comes through before we're airing from 3p to 3a. I'm sure that some of the new programming will be live and of the local talk variety, but personally, I think we first need to eliminate the problems that sometimes plague our five hours each day before we do anything with twelve. The episode of mine that was halted three Fridays ago finally re-aired in its entirety last Friday, but the same mysterious malady suddenly stopped last Thursday's show as well, and now it'll have to be re-aired, too. (It was YTS-223, now archived at the WCRS website, and it includes songs written 20-50 years ago that relate to the current situation in Egypt ... at least in my opinion!)
I think WCRS is awaiting FCC approval of its new timeshare agreement with WCRX before it goes ahead with the expanded hours. It's also my understanding that ALL past program proposals, even ones going back two or three years, are again being reviewed and evaluated, so it may be some time even after FCC approval comes through before we're airing from 3p to 3a. I'm sure that some of the new programming will be live and of the local talk variety, but personally, I think we first need to eliminate the problems that sometimes plague our five hours each day before we do anything with twelve. The episode of mine that was halted three Fridays ago finally re-aired in its entirety last Friday, but the same mysterious malady suddenly stopped last Thursday's show as well, and now it'll have to be re-aired, too. (It was YTS-223, now archived at the WCRS website, and it includes songs written 20-50 years ago that relate to the current situation in Egypt ... at least in my opinion!)
jakej,
Do you have a time table for the new WCRS-LP expanded schedule?
Also, I see the WCRS tech. dept. is doing a very good job of tweaking the audio of the WCRS-LP translator station at 98.3. The audio now sounds
good to me and I can be hard to please. For example, it sounds much better to me then WWCD, 102.5 in my opinion. I'm impressed! The translator is much stronger in downtown Columbus then 102.1.
I hear you are picking on all the other stations in town! You say all the programing you hear on the other stations is "garbage" because they don't
want to "work" to produce good programing. You say "work" is alien to these people because they rater get a paycheck and not work!
Your very bold to make a statement like that on the air.
This is the program, for those of you interested in his comment, at about 51:00 into his show, Yesterdays Top Secrets:
http://wcrsfm.org/content/yesterdays-top-secrets-yts-225-feb17
Do you have a time table for the new WCRS-LP expanded schedule?
Also, I see the WCRS tech. dept. is doing a very good job of tweaking the audio of the WCRS-LP translator station at 98.3. The audio now sounds
good to me and I can be hard to please. For example, it sounds much better to me then WWCD, 102.5 in my opinion. I'm impressed! The translator is much stronger in downtown Columbus then 102.1.
I hear you are picking on all the other stations in town! You say all the programing you hear on the other stations is "garbage" because they don't
want to "work" to produce good programing. You say "work" is alien to these people because they rater get a paycheck and not work!
Your very bold to make a statement like that on the air.
This is the program, for those of you interested in his comment, at about 51:00 into his show, Yesterdays Top Secrets:
http://wcrsfm.org/content/yesterdays-top-secrets-yts-225-feb17
gabigley1 said:
Interesting comment, as the translator should be only receiving and retransmitting what is originally broadcast on 102.1. To add processing to a translator is strange at best.
I hear you are picking on all the other stations in town! You say all the programing you hear on the other stations is "garbage" because they don't want to "work" to produce good programing. You say "work" is alien to these people because they rater get a paycheck and not work!
Your very bold to make a statement like that on the air.
This is the program, for those of you interested in his comment, at about 51:00 into his show, Yesterdays Top Secrets:
http://wcrsfm.org/content/yesterdays-top-secrets-yts-225-feb17
yea, jake occasionally places a very high value on his opinion of his show. I guess he's never heard of catching more bees with honey, or he just doesn't like bees??? (lol)
I don't know where to begin! Well, first of all, when Clear Channel takes Rush Limbaugh off the air in Columbus, then I'll consider toning down my own rhetoric. If he's got the right to shoot his mouth off about whatever he wants, then so do I!
I'm 99% sure that one of WCRS's prerequisites for 12-hour broadcasting is FCC approval of the new timeshare agreement, and no one knows how long that's going to take, so it's just about impossible to provide even a tentative timetable for how soon its schedule might expand. My understanding is that 'CRS is now streaming 24 hours a day, but the 8pm-to-3pm content varies widely, and the streamed programs during those hours won't be permanently selected until after the 3pm-to-3am broadcast schedule is determined.
Thanks for the kind words about 98.3's audio. My episodes are no longer suddenly being cut short, but for the past few weeks it's been little ticks in the sound emerging after about twenty minutes that really annoy me. The "gang" (Pat and Robb) is aware of them and working to get rid of the buggers. Fortunately, the "Yesterday's Top Secrets" archives aren't affected by this malady, and so that continues to be the best way to experience the show. I just wish you hadn't mentioned the 51-minute mark -- I'd like radio-info.com fans to check out the entire episode, and not just skip ahead to the part where I lose it! The music of that hour is, as is the custom on "Secrets", incredible, from featured artists Jimi Hendrix and the Jam, to fellow J-sters John's Children, the James Gang, Josef K, Janis Joplin, the Jury, and Joy Division, to the Temptations, This Mortal Coil, U2, and Wasted Youth.
I threw big gobs of honey at everyone from 2000 to 2008, but the sweetness got me nowhere. So now I just delight in burning bridges instead (not that I had any to begin with, but I figure I might as well seal the deal), and actually, someone would probably hear me going on some type of anti-radio rant or making some kind of anti-radio statement in at least half of the 170 episodes of "Secrets" that have been archived to date ... if someone had 170 hours to check them all out!
This Thursday night will mark my sixth episode with legendary BBC Radio personality John Peel as my special guest co-host.
I'm 99% sure that one of WCRS's prerequisites for 12-hour broadcasting is FCC approval of the new timeshare agreement, and no one knows how long that's going to take, so it's just about impossible to provide even a tentative timetable for how soon its schedule might expand. My understanding is that 'CRS is now streaming 24 hours a day, but the 8pm-to-3pm content varies widely, and the streamed programs during those hours won't be permanently selected until after the 3pm-to-3am broadcast schedule is determined.
Thanks for the kind words about 98.3's audio. My episodes are no longer suddenly being cut short, but for the past few weeks it's been little ticks in the sound emerging after about twenty minutes that really annoy me. The "gang" (Pat and Robb) is aware of them and working to get rid of the buggers. Fortunately, the "Yesterday's Top Secrets" archives aren't affected by this malady, and so that continues to be the best way to experience the show. I just wish you hadn't mentioned the 51-minute mark -- I'd like radio-info.com fans to check out the entire episode, and not just skip ahead to the part where I lose it! The music of that hour is, as is the custom on "Secrets", incredible, from featured artists Jimi Hendrix and the Jam, to fellow J-sters John's Children, the James Gang, Josef K, Janis Joplin, the Jury, and Joy Division, to the Temptations, This Mortal Coil, U2, and Wasted Youth.
I threw big gobs of honey at everyone from 2000 to 2008, but the sweetness got me nowhere. So now I just delight in burning bridges instead (not that I had any to begin with, but I figure I might as well seal the deal), and actually, someone would probably hear me going on some type of anti-radio rant or making some kind of anti-radio statement in at least half of the 170 episodes of "Secrets" that have been archived to date ... if someone had 170 hours to check them all out!
This Thursday night will mark my sixth episode with legendary BBC Radio personality John Peel as my special guest co-host.
jakej said:
Noticed today, the FCC has before it, the new time share agreement. This was posted with
the FCC on Feb. 14, 2011 and are here:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=24485
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=24486
Noticed that WCRS-LP 102.1 was staying on later then usual last night In fact, at least two hours later, from 8:00 PM to at least 10:00 PM.
Has the FCC finally approved this WCRS/WCRX timeshare agreement? The 98.3 translator did go off at the usually time, at 10:00 PM. That is what I would normally listen to here in downtown Columbus.
Yes, the new timeshare agreement has been approved by the FCC! The WCRS Programming Committee will be meeting on Monday night, but I'm not a member of it so I don't know how close we are to deciding upon and implementing a 3pm-to-3am schedule. There are still occasional glitches with our FM broadcast and/or stream, but overall I'm satisfied with our recent progress and excited about our future. My 232nd episode aired last night, and I still have a blast putting them together!
Ran across this talkshow podcast on the WCRS website today. Here, the representatives from WCRS-LP and WCRX-LP discuses the goals and future of the stations. They even discuss the problems you had getting the commercials stations in town to air your shows. Here is the 60 minute podcast:
http://www.wcrsfm.org/content/audio-tag-artist-raw-audio-tag-title-raw
WCRS-LP also said that between their translator on 98.3 and their originating station on 102.1, WCRS-LP has an potential audience of 1.5 to 1.6
million people!
Then this LPFM station would have the largest potential audience of any LPFM station in the USA?
http://www.wcrsfm.org/content/audio-tag-artist-raw-audio-tag-title-raw
WCRS-LP also said that between their translator on 98.3 and their originating station on 102.1, WCRS-LP has an potential audience of 1.5 to 1.6
million people!
Then this LPFM station would have the largest potential audience of any LPFM station in the USA?
gabigley1 said:
Thanks for the link! How about that, some nice things said about "Secrets", and I'll give the minute-mark this time -- 20. The whole thing's worth hearing though, everyone.
Here's a new posting on the 'CRS website about its 12-hour schedule: "WCRS is now on the air from 3pm to 3am. We have a very tentative schedule of programs after 8pm and it will likely change, so stay tuned. We expect to have a more permanent schedule in mid-April." Last night I heard an older episode of mine that was aired at 8:00.
jakej said:
It was good I agree.. and they also did state a show like yours will never fit commercial radio as commerical radio is about playing the hits. I thought they were very fair in their accessment and it was also nice to see that 'both sides' are working together finally.
The new 12-hour schedule is now available at the WCRS website, covering its FM broadcasts at 98.3 and 102.1 from 3pm to 3am, seven days a week: http://wcrsfm.org/ourschedule
Brief descriptions of all of its locally-produced shows can be found at http://wcrsfm.org/local_programs
The station has been streaming 24 hours a day through its website at www.wcrsfm.org for several months, but no set schedule for that listening option's 3am to 3pm hours has been decided upon.
Brief descriptions of all of its locally-produced shows can be found at http://wcrsfm.org/local_programs
The station has been streaming 24 hours a day through its website at www.wcrsfm.org for several months, but no set schedule for that listening option's 3am to 3pm hours has been decided upon.
Was listening to PatRadio last night on WCRS-LP radio. At the end of the show, PatRadio said WCRS-LP was planning to take over it's WCRX-LP time slot and go 24/7. He said he there should
be an announcement soon about WCRS-LP going 24/7. This is all news to me.
Is there a LMA in the works between WCRS-LP and WCRX-LP? Maybe WCRX-LP is planning on selling
it's license to WCRS-LP?
be an announcement soon about WCRS-LP going 24/7. This is all news to me.
Is there a LMA in the works between WCRS-LP and WCRX-LP? Maybe WCRX-LP is planning on selling
it's license to WCRS-LP?
I didn't hear the show, but my guess is it was a rebroadcast of a previous episode of Pat's, in which he talked about WCRS' stream soon going 24/7. Our FM programming won't be; I just checked with Robb about that. Thanks for listening, Mr. Bigley, and I hope you caught my show last night, too!
gabigley1 said:
The stream Is has been going 24/7 for years. It just that nobody wanted to schedule out that time. I'm currently looking for show to put there and make WCRS a 24/7 station on the net at least.
On 102.1FM, We will and always have a time share with WCRX. That 24/7 thing probably not happening ever over the air. Although, Having a 24 hour over the air in some way shape or form is some we would like in the far future.
allstar2003 said:
I know that we met last August, but I would like to take this opportunity to officially and publicly welcome you to the WCRS team, allstar! You're doing a great job, and please feel free to insert a daily four-hour block of past "Secrets" episodes into the stream schedule. With 384 to choose from, you then won't have to repeat any of them a second time until after, let's see, thirteen weeks have passed! ;D
WCRS-LP/WCRX-LP are sharing dead-air at the moment. Both stations share the same transmitter
site so the issue may be at the transmitter site. I'm hearing an Open Carrier on 102.1 with no audio whatsoever, not even station IDs.
I noticed WCRS-LP was off the air last Saturday evening. Both stations were also off last Sunday and Monday.
This is from the WCRS-LP website:
"1/19/2013 - Due to technical difficulties at our transmitter site WCRS-LP 102.1 and 98.3 are currently off the air. Updates will be given as available."
site so the issue may be at the transmitter site. I'm hearing an Open Carrier on 102.1 with no audio whatsoever, not even station IDs.
I noticed WCRS-LP was off the air last Saturday evening. Both stations were also off last Sunday and Monday.
This is from the WCRS-LP website:
"1/19/2013 - Due to technical difficulties at our transmitter site WCRS-LP 102.1 and 98.3 are currently off the air. Updates will be given as available."
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