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WCTC Audio

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Deeman1710

What's up Greater Media with your audio on CTC? It's all mid range, no low end and no high's. It's horrible.
When I was there and on the engineering team that built the broadcast center in 1978 myself, John Stanley, and Jim Jarvis had that audio sounding sweet with CRL's. I remember the night we went 24/7 and had the authority to run 1KW at night from 250. It made a big differance until everyone else on 1450 was granted the 1KW at night. When you correct your audio chain, if you do, add some reverb. You can't be a oldies station without reverb. You have it on MTR so put it on CTC..

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I wonder if they ever changed the processing from the talk days. Mids are good on a talk station, but all-mids doesn't sound so great with music.
 
Who is listening on AM?
Most of Good Time Oldies 1450 WCTC's listeners will be listening on the Internet, and there's CBS-FM for oldies.
 
Nick said:
Who is listening on AM?
Most of Good Time Oldies 1450 WCTC's listeners will be listening on the Internet...
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Based on the "demo" of the Oldies format as a whole I HIGHLY DOUBT that "most are listening on the internet" as you state. Solely based on the fact that the upper-echelons of this demo are "less likely" to become involved with technology than say the 18-35 crowd, plus with the recent recession I would venture to say that most of the station's listeners (however many that might be) are tuning-in via radio. Any internet streaming that is done is more than likely a result of the less-than-stellar building penetration that a 1kw station puts out. Oh and when it comes to CBS-FM their signal is marginal in MOST parts of Middlesex and southward based on co-channel interference from B-101 in Philly so CTC to some degree fills in the gap programming-wise.

I would agree that the station sounds incredibly FLAT and is in need of some dire processing tweaks. Perhaps they haven't hired a FT Engineer as of yet. I know they had a posting on the njba several months ago...

Good call by "Deeman 1710!"

8)
 
You can't get WCTC outside of New Brunswick/Edison at night, and in the day, you lose the Good Time Oldies station in South Brunswick.
WNJO 94.5 was there to "fill in the oldies gap" between WOGL and WCBS-FM and it was 50000 watts. It flipped to classic rock due to low ratings and aging demographics. Now, WNJO is a relay of NJN on 90.3 in Toms River.
I guess WCTC costs almost nothing besides the electric bill to operate.
 
Nick said:
You can't get WCTC outside of New Brunswick/Edison at night, and in the day, you lose the Good Time Oldies station in South Brunswick.
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Ummm OK, not sure where that came from, but NO argument there. FWIW, I can actually get it as far South as Exit 100 on the GSP and relaitvely "cleanly" as far north as exit 145 (I-280) but that's neither here nor there...maybe that damn water tower in SB is a hinderance ::)

WNJO 94.5 was there to "fill in the oldies gap" between WOGL and WCBS-FM and it was 50000 watts. It flipped to classic rock due to low ratings and aging demographics.
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Again... No argument but comparing a Class B FM to a Class C AM is really "apples and oranges." One is LOCAL and the other is more REGIONAL.

Now, WNJO is a relay of NJN on 90.3 in Toms River.
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Moot point regarding WCTC but A++ for the locale of the calls.

I guess WCTC costs almost nothing besides the electric bill to operate.
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Well considering they let ALL of the previous talent go EXCEPT for Ellery (they needed some kind of ANCHOR to keep people tuned in...at least in the AM in hopes they would leave it on ALL day long) and a handful of PAID weekend hosts I would again say you are 100% right and the same can be said for it's "sister" WMTR.

Bringing the topic FULL CIRCLE back to the original post...The Audio NEEDS some attention!!
 
??? Just wanted to clarify my earlier statement in attempt to strive for accuracy..."PAYING" Weekend Hosts

Many Thanks... :p
 
Radio411 said:
Nick said:
You can't get WCTC outside of New Brunswick/Edison at night, and in the day, you lose the Good Time Oldies station in South Brunswick.
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Ummm OK, not sure where that came from, but NO argument there. FWIW, I can actually get it as far South as Exit 100 on the GSP and relaitvely "cleanly" as far north as exit 145 (I-280) but that's neither here nor there...maybe that damn water tower in SB is a hinderance ::)
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Actually WCTC's daytime signal was pretty good in Flemington up until a couple of days ago. Now, it's barely audible. I thought maybe they had transmitter problems or something.
 
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