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WCVB on WWZN?

It's about time something like this happened on a Boston AM station. It has been happening in Portland off and on, in the past couple of decades.

This Ch 5/1510 thing, with no cash transacted.... sure is a good deal for Ch 5 !
 
Before the digital transition you could hear TV audio on some Walkmen and portable radios. I used to tune to Ch 4, 5 or 7 news at 11 pm while at work. Now you have this instead.
 
Something similar has happened in the Providence market, where 990-WALE has been carrying...(as fill at various times)...the audio portion of Cox Cable's "Rhode Island News Channel".

For those not familiar, "Rhode Island News Channel" is...essentially...a repeating loop of the most recent local newscast from New Bedford's WLNE, Channel 6.

With the advent of digital TV...it makes perfect sense.
 
JIBGUY said:
It's about time something like this happened on a Boston AM station. It has been happening in Portland off and on, in the past couple of decades.

This Ch 5/1510 thing, with no cash transacted.... sure is a good deal for Ch 5 !
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NECN has been simulcasting its news on WBIX at least from 8:00PM to 10:00PM for (my guess) 2-1/2 years or more now. And of course, Channel 5 has been on WCAP a couple of hours a day almost from the day Clark Smidt took over the radio station. The TV news on radio thing works surprisingly well in my opinion; I haven't heard very much of the "as you can see it this picture" stuff, which is a killer for me when I do hear it.
 
JIBGUY said:
It's about time something like this happened on a Boston AM station. It has been happening in Portland off and on, in the past couple of decades.

This Ch 5/1510 thing, with no cash transacted.... sure is a good deal for Ch 5 !
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WBIX1060 has been broadcasting New England Cable News at 8PM for several years. As someone who doesn't have cable I find this to be much more valuable than Ch.5. And ch. 5 already broadcasts audio over WCAP, which has a listenable signal, even though they're officially not in the market.
 
Definitely not a new idea. In the early days of CNN Headline News,
(1982) we split off the TV audio for a radio feed. Eventually, CNN Radio
became a separate audio source on its own. I am surprised this is not
done more often (synergy)...
 
With the digital switch, I wouldn't be amazed to start seeing a lot more of this. As pointed out earlier... some radios were able to grab TV audio but this is obviously not possible anymore.

Living in the Southeast, I heard a report recently out of Florida bemoaning the digital transition as a loss of emergency information during storms - a lot of households had small radio/tv sets for use in emergencies like hurricanes and the such that are now useless on the TV side. Pushing some TV audio onto the AM band could be good for emergency information. It's relatively cheap to do (you've got the audio anyways) and if there is one thing people are still saying the AM Band is good for it is for relaying emergency information (due to its range relative to wattage and its relative ease of implementation in a catastrophe).
 
And of course, WUAM 900 (Watervliet NY) broadcasts the audio of Time Warner Cable's news channel, Capital News 9, 24-7 (albeit with very limited range at night).
 
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