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WHAT DARK THIS MORNING
- Thread starter rtetro
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WMID comes in? Hopefully WHAT will stay dark, because whichever format debut's, I highly doubt that it will be listenable to those of us on this board. And the average person isn't waiting in the wings for any kind of canned format on the "New Flea-Bite 1340"
Nothing on 1340.com either. Shame.
rtetro said:WHAT 1340 is dark this morning, probably preparing for whatever comes next. Tuning into 1340 on my way to work between Lansdale and Lafayette Hill, WMID is dominant on the frequency. Weak but mostly listenable.
Radio Wreck said:WMID comes in?
As I said, I listened between Lansdale and Lafayette Hill this AM. I would imagine that on the Jersey side of the Delaware, WMID is pretty clear today. I know the folks at WHAT were always concerned about the overlap from WMID, however under the rules there was nothing that could be done. WMID already operates with lower power than a local channel because their system is so efficient between the tall tower and the salt water. (They run at 890 watts, rather than 1000).
I was very saddened to hear this morning that WHAT was off the air. I canceled all my activities for the week. I don't know what to do over a 1000 watt station that no longer plays music. As I await the silence....wait a minute!...yes I just discovered internet, Ipods, satellite, never mind, I'll just go on with life. I'm alright, I wish the rest of you guys in mourning the best of luck for your future entertainment.
;D ;D ;DStarbucks said:I was very saddened to hear this morning that WHAT was off the air. I canceled all my activities for the week. I don't know what to do over a 1000 watt station that no longer plays music. As I await the silence....wait a minute!...yes I just discovered internet, Ipods, satellite, never mind, I'll just go on with life. I'm alright, I wish the rest of you guys in mourning the best of luck for your future entertainment.
Personally, I've been enjoying listening to WMID in my travels.
Driving in this morning, WRAW's signal dominated 1340 until around Limerick-Schwenksville. WMID heard from Skippack to Horsham, where the signal is listenable. On another note, WWDB fired up their HD iBoc last Thursday after being turned off for nearly a year (turned off just after Aug 2010 ESPN Deportes launch). Now WCBS-880 is mostly unlistenable in car within 10 miles of WWDB's E Norriton Twp XR.
vmelis said:Driving in this morning, WRAW's signal dominated 1340 until around Limerick-Schwenksville. WMID heard from Skippack to Horsham, where the signal is listenable. On another note, WWDB fired up their HD iBoc last Thursday after being turned off for nearly a year (turned off just after Aug 2010 ESPN Deportes launch). Now WCBS-880 is mostly unlistenable in car within 10 miles of WWDB's E Norriton Twp XR.
WPEN uses the 860 site at night. Doesn't WPEN run IBOC? If so, that would mean that, regardless of which station is transmitting from that site, the signal is surrounded by that infernal hiss. I assume the 950 hiss has some effect on WHYL, although that would be the case only at night and, since WHYL is 70 miles away and runs only 21W at night, I guess any IBOC hiss from WPEN would be of no consequence.
I liked WHAT when it was a true standards station. This is the age of the internet. Terrestrial radio is irrelevant.
J
jhguthlac
Guest
Do you have an internet device to listen to the internet in your car?
What makes a station relevant. If it serves some niche of folks who listen and the station owners make enough profit to be happy, then from where I sit, that radio station is relevant, even if it's a 250w station.
We've lost a number of stations in the Delaware Valley as the years have passed, that may not be missed by many folks, but to those who's lives were made better through the entertainment, information, and radio personalities who's voice and style was like a visit from an old friend via these small time stations it is a big loss. Many here lament the loss of the Ken Garland era of WIP with that entire stable of Metromedia air talent and music, jingles, promotions, cash call, Chickenman, etc, that made that station one of the best in the nation bar none. Yet to those too young to have been there to experience that 610 WIP, its not relevant. Or what of the Boss jocks at Famous 56 WFIL before it became Salem Radio's Christian Talk Station, or the great real radio talk shows on WCAU radio 121 in Philadelphia, WWDB The TALK STATION. Those of us who like Classical Music still miss WFLN at one time AM and FM, now there's neither. Thankfully Temple's WRTI decided to go half and half Classical and Jazz. But the point is, Time marches on, what's cool and hip today will be passe and old fashioned tomorrow. Yet for those who's lives were touched by what a WHAT, WCHE, WAMS, WNRK, WTUX, WNNN-FM, WJIC, (and many others whose calls I don't remember, because I couldn't get them on my radio) that are no longer with us, those stations were relevant to someone, even if they weren't the biggest or best profit producers in the tri-state area, they served some group of listeners and advertisers. So if WHAT has gone silent and has now joined that club of former radio stations, it is a sad thing for those who spent many years working there and for those who spent many years listening to that station. It's not the end of the world (only Harold Camping thinks he knows the date God has chosen), but it still is a loss for Philly area radio listeners.
Granted some of the stations I've listed have something being aired at that frequency with different calls, different owners, different programming, but it's not what those stations were in THEIR hay day. However, even these newer versions are relevant if they are serving a group of listeners, advertisers, and making enough of a profit for their respective owners. People are creative and have found many ways to reinvent AM radio, some 90 years later.
We've lost a number of stations in the Delaware Valley as the years have passed, that may not be missed by many folks, but to those who's lives were made better through the entertainment, information, and radio personalities who's voice and style was like a visit from an old friend via these small time stations it is a big loss. Many here lament the loss of the Ken Garland era of WIP with that entire stable of Metromedia air talent and music, jingles, promotions, cash call, Chickenman, etc, that made that station one of the best in the nation bar none. Yet to those too young to have been there to experience that 610 WIP, its not relevant. Or what of the Boss jocks at Famous 56 WFIL before it became Salem Radio's Christian Talk Station, or the great real radio talk shows on WCAU radio 121 in Philadelphia, WWDB The TALK STATION. Those of us who like Classical Music still miss WFLN at one time AM and FM, now there's neither. Thankfully Temple's WRTI decided to go half and half Classical and Jazz. But the point is, Time marches on, what's cool and hip today will be passe and old fashioned tomorrow. Yet for those who's lives were touched by what a WHAT, WCHE, WAMS, WNRK, WTUX, WNNN-FM, WJIC, (and many others whose calls I don't remember, because I couldn't get them on my radio) that are no longer with us, those stations were relevant to someone, even if they weren't the biggest or best profit producers in the tri-state area, they served some group of listeners and advertisers. So if WHAT has gone silent and has now joined that club of former radio stations, it is a sad thing for those who spent many years working there and for those who spent many years listening to that station. It's not the end of the world (only Harold Camping thinks he knows the date God has chosen), but it still is a loss for Philly area radio listeners.
Granted some of the stations I've listed have something being aired at that frequency with different calls, different owners, different programming, but it's not what those stations were in THEIR hay day. However, even these newer versions are relevant if they are serving a group of listeners, advertisers, and making enough of a profit for their respective owners. People are creative and have found many ways to reinvent AM radio, some 90 years later.
Then there are those who have tweaked a format here and there, that some used to like, but for some reason (too little of this, too much of that, not this DJ or that DJ on anymore) dont like it anymore.
For me WRFY-FM, Reading. Then there are still others that are no longer with us. WFMZ, WJJZ. I also like WYSP and soon its going, too. WSNI went, so did WEJM, WEGX, WYXR, I liked those too.
For me WRFY-FM, Reading. Then there are still others that are no longer with us. WFMZ, WJJZ. I also like WYSP and soon its going, too. WSNI went, so did WEJM, WEGX, WYXR, I liked those too.
The Company that owns WMID should buy WHAT and put WMID'S format on WHAT.
I
imhomerjay
Guest
So they can go belly up, too?
jhguthlac said:Do you have an internet device to listen to the internet in your car?
Yes. For years now. And just in terms of audio, HyLitRadio channels blow terestrial radio right out of the water. It's a pure audio quantum leap.
Use any bluetooth interface, and make the leap. Here's one.
http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/bluetooth-hands-free-car-kits
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