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What is up with the Delmar stations?

chad43358 said:
I know for a fact that 95.1 is internet-fed. You can hear it randomly buffering, and I remember years ago when they hired "Tim Kennedy the Senator" as a DJ, he went on a tirade about CenturyLink's subpar internet causing 95.1 to go silent. Their transmitter location in rural Morrow County probably doesn't have the most reliable internet service.
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Pretty sure they are likely using IP based STL's for all their frequencies that do not transmit from Delaware. It's pretty common now days for most broadcasters (even the big name ones). Delmar, 95.1's site is north of Mount Gilead in a rural area - doubt they have access to fiber these days but they might. (It's actually kind of amazing where fiber is being run these days - lot more rural area have access to it then some major cities) I know at one point WVXG had a small studio at it's transmitter site but I doubt that's being used as anything but a passthrough from the Route 36/37 Studios. The only frequencies which are fed directly are 92.9 Delaware, 1550 Delaware and 98.5 which all have their transmitter site at the Delaware studio.

You'd be shocked at what's IP based these days - Even big dogs like K-Love who have relied on satellite for years for delivery are moving to IP based delivery.

There are AM/FM stations in pretty sticky areas for getting data connectivity using 5G hot spots (like Maxxconnect) or business star link service to get IP to the transmitter
 
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IP delivery has gotten very good and even works way better on Starlink than youd think... especially when using a higher end IP hardware appliance like a Comrex Briclink
 
AM 1580 is now officially "Oldies 1580" as of today. No "True Oldies Channel" though, sounds like Delmar is programming it and it has Mark Bingaman, from their Breakfast Club show, doing the liners.
 
TempoNick said:
It seems to me that if you have a crappy spot on the dial, you need to have a format people will go out of their way to find you with. Bring back CD 101 and make it a crowdsourcing endeavor to sell time.
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Problem is the folks who were the core listeners of that station won't ever come back even if the format did return in some form on 92,9 as the way the format ended and then the owners of the license "trolling" with their 93x alternative format didn't exactly win any 'fans'
 
redsfan1966 said:
....and as of 11:30pm tonight, 1580 has went back to simulcasting 93/95X.
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This saturday evening 1580 is back to oldies with jingles as "Oldies 1580" I like the oldies I kinda wish they would just leave it there.

Speaking of Delmar stations! I was hearing 96.7 Marysville in the car in Grove City! That translator sure gets out!
 
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Some intern had a "guest" in the studio and had access to the VPN on the transmitters and did it. They have video of it. It was caught almost immediately.
On the subject of 1580. Yes, it is going oldies soon. since it was Latino before its likely anyone notices' while we work to make it the best technical sound we can for an AM station. Hopefully this week oldies full time. a few more kinks to work out. And yes, it will be live some dayparts and weekends. We have been working on the Transmitter and the audio processing. We are going to a new cloud-based automation system. The reason we are not doing anything like cd 101 was doing is it could not sustain advertisers. That's why Malloy failed with three different station setups. 60s and 70's oldies are nowhere in this market and sounds best on an AM station. The boycotts that ensued by the listeners toward advertisers after he was pulled from the air assures that no radio station in this market will ever attempt that format again. and yes i do contract work for several stations including these.
 
mikenci said:
Insider Information:
Some intern had a "guest" in the studio and had access to the VPN on the transmitters and did it. They have video of it. It was caught almost immediately.
On the subject of 1580. Yes, it is going oldies soon. since it was Latino before its likely anyone notices' while we work to make it the best technical sound we can for an AM station. Hopefully this week oldies full time. a few more kinks to work out. And yes, it will be live some dayparts and weekends. We have been working on the Transmitter and the audio processing. We are going to a new cloud-based automation system. The reason we are not doing anything like cd 101 was doing is it could not sustain advertisers. That's why Malloy failed with three different station setups. 60s and 70's oldies are nowhere in this market and sounds best on an AM station. The boycotts that ensued by the listeners toward advertisers after he was pulled from the air assures that no radio station in this market will ever attempt that format again. and yes i do contract work for several stations including these.
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I noticed within the last hour that it was 'cleared' and just displaying the static "WXGT WQCD"

Oldies 1580 sounds good was listening again today for a bit on the drive home from the south side - love the jingles being played too! Hopefully once it fully launches there is a 'stream' for when not able to be near AM radio.

And your spot on about alternative - it only lives on 105.7 because iHeart can absorb it given they employ a "cluster strategy" for their advertising/formats and don't have the same uphill that a small station would trying to 'sell it'
 


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