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What is the matter with WSGA 92.3 FM

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radiopilot

Has anyone tried listening to this station lately?

Have they installed an IBOC transmitter or digital transmitter/equipment, it sounds like a sawtooth generator on the voiceover and on the music being played. Last week and prior it was skipping seconds off the air and going blank for seconds at a time, talk about listener fatigue, I ended not listening anymore to this station.

What is their engineer or management thinking?
 
radiopilot said:
Has anyone tried listening to this station lately?

Have they installed an IBOC transmitter or digital transmitter/equipment, it sounds like a sawtooth generator on the voiceover and on the music being played. Last week and prior it was skipping seconds off the air and going blank for seconds at a time, talk about listener fatigue, I ended not listening anymore to this station.

What is their engineer or management thinking?
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Well, 92.3 is on the first 6 presets on my car radio, so I took a listen tonight.

Total garbage...Nobody can listen to that station and tolerate it! It would be a great station if it didn't sound like a CD with a light scratch in it the entire way through, or a PC that has not been rebooted for ages (try to play a song on your iTunes after leaving a POS computer on for several weeks and tell me what you hear)

Honestly, I think their rig has bit the dust. I'm imagining it's a faulty digital STL link having to transmit a signal from Tama's studios on the southside to their tower 30 miles away in Midway. Not to mention that transmitter is probably pushing close to 20 years old and needs to go to the great 100,000 watt voice in the sky ;D

I did notice 92.3 has a CP to move about 10 miles north of their current site. They'll lose about 30 feet of tower to protect 92.5 in Charleston, but the signal should be considerably better in Savannah and places due North like HHI and Bluffton. Plus, STL links won't have as much of a problem, and I doubt they'll move a 20 year old several-hundred-pound paper weight to power their new signal.

Either way, looking at Tama's stations in Savannah and Jacksonville, I can see why they're going bankrupt.

Radio-X
 
radioguybroadcasting said:
if it's been like this for awhile, no one listeners or cares..
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Well, considering the fact that 92.3 has never broke a 2 share in the 3 or so years I've been around here AND it's run under what most people (even those outside of the radio world) would consider "small-town broadcasting" ideologies...I'm sure the 6 people who listened to it gladly tuned out the skipping Flock of Seagulls song and promptly turned it to something they wouldn't be afraid to jam out to without getting funny looks at a stoplight.

Just remember with over-leveraged broadcasters like Tama, if it's broke, it don't need fixin' unless all you hear is a loud hum

You think "92-3 Skip FM" is bad, give it 3 months and we'll be listening to "92-3 the Buzz!"

...I've also heard Wilco Dark has been signed to replace "Ace & T.J." for mornings on the new Buzz...Hahaha

Radio-X
 
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