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When was the last time anyone tried to pull in a station?

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DougD

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The many comments on this board about this dismal state of corp. radio got me thinking-

When was the last time you or anyone else hooked an FM tuner up to a rooftop TV antenna or split off your coaxial cable to magnify your FM signals?

DXers need not apply. I'm talking about a "listener" trying to pull in another station from a surrounding city. You know, the excitement of broadcasting and hearing new things.

Doesn't happen much anymore, I assume, since a station in City A pretty much sounds like a station in City B. Right down to the boring lame repetitive music and liner cards.

Think about it.
 
doug said:
The many comments on this board about this dismal state of corp. radio got me thinking-

When was the last time you or anyone else hooked an FM tuner up to a rooftop TV antenna or split off your coaxial cable to magnify your FM signals?

DXers need not apply. I'm talking about a "listener" trying to pull in another station from a surrounding city. You know, the excitement of broadcasting and hearing new things.

Doesn't happen much anymore, I assume, since a station in City A pretty much sounds like a station in City B. Right down to the boring lame repetitive music and liner cards.

Think about it.
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Actually, I sometimes do that with AM. Toronto's 740 AM has a 4 hour show Friday nights called "Primetime Bandstand". It's '50s/early '60s with some Canadian chart hits thrown in. Really good stuff. Radio Shack sold a good AM antenna a while back. It doesn't have to be attached to the radio.........just placed next to it.
 
I liked to pull in out of market Radio (and TV for that matter). But I'm afraid there's no fun in it anymore. Everything IS the same. The same Limbaugh/Savage talk shows, the same 300 Oldies, the same boring AC, the same annoying (to me) hip-hop.

I had a huge Finco FM yagi with 4 active elements I would rotate. From South Jersey, I used it to listen to WBIG Washington, and WCBS-FM in NYC and null out WBEB in Phila. I had to get my fix of Dan Ingram every weekend, and Cousin Brucie and Harry Harrison. But we've been Jack(ed) off by genius executives at CBS who managed to cut the listenership, even in their target demos, by 66%!

But I digress. The FM band is worhtless. The AM band is still some fun, but at night when the IBOC hash is gone.
 
I used to try to pull in out of town FM's. Now I don't even have the wire antenna hooked up to my main stereo, just have a Sirius docking station connected to it as well as a home theater PC that I can pull down streaming audio on.
 
I would say around 1990/1991 when I lived in Los Angeles. I would try and pull in KFRC in San Francisco when they were on 610AM and still playing oldies.

Anthony--
 
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