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With Just Minutes To Go...

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Laurence Glavin

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This is amazing; with just minutes to go until the WKOX/WXKS-AM switcheroo, there is no indication of the changes to come! Au contraire...during breaks, they've been running Ed Schultz and Randi Rhodes promos. I hope that just before noon, they air one of those listener promos, the ones where some caller says "Thank you thank you...at last there's station for the rest of us".
 
Unless they've changed their minds, or decided to delay the inevitable change, what probably happened is they just have those promos pre-programmed into the computer and didn't bother to go in and change them to
PSAs or something. Now, will we hear someone come on just before noon and say, "Hi. I'm (name), from
Clear Channel in Boston. At this time we are changing our format to Rumba/Spanish-language. We're sorry
that progressive talk didn't work for us, and we know you're dedicated listeners, but this was a business
decision..."

Think that'll happen?
 
I predict Air America feed is yanked mid sentence and some spanish "rumba" record starts up. What else would you expect from clueless channel. That's okay, no one is listening anyway.

;D ;D ;D ;D
 
Wonder if WXKS/WKOX site will be unplugged at noon. btw when WCRB and WKLB changed frequencies,
the WKLB "new" 102.5 site appeared almost immediately. As for WCRB, a new placeholder page had their
new promo, a "listen live" link, and "new website coming soon"...THAT is still up, 20 days after the switch.
No new site yet.

Wonder if someone at CC will forget to throw the switch?
12 pm ID "This is Boston's prog talk"
silence
 
Continued silence on 1430, which is what I'm recording. I wonder if 1200 has flipped but not 1430? I know
one station lags slightly behind the other...

using a portable (and tuning just to the left of WESX which is powerful where I am), still silencio.
 
now running an ad for "Slim 23"
oops now silent again. really smooth guys

it's on 1200...
and now 1430
"esta memento--Latina de Boston--mas musica..." etc
 
OFFICENERD said:
smooth real smooth

yikes ;) :D :D :D
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MarcB said:
The flip of 104.5 in Philly from a delayed simulcast of Philly 106.1 to RUMBA 104.5 was much ,more smooth. :D
Click to expand...

Could they have made it any less smooth? A final Air America top of the hour, then dead air where the newscast should have been, then about half of an English spot, then by 12:06 the liners announcing the new format, and then more dead air, and the first song. I remember some people poking fun at Greater Media for pushing the 102.5 button too early, but they deserve serious props after hearing what just happened at CC Boston.
 
ah, yes, it looks like they got the rumba1200am domain name (and I note the CC stuff at the bottom)
CC couldn't get rumba1200.com which is on a station in Florida
 
>>it's on 1200...
and now 1430

I had the stereo recording WXKS (comes in stronger here) with a portable radio on 1200. There has been a delay between the two stations for awhile--you could tune to 1200 and then the same thing would pop up on
1430 about 6-7 seconds later. Well, that was reflected in the debut of the new format and is still in effect,
that 6-7 sec lag.

Give it another minute or two and my sound file will be up, for all you format change collectors.

http://wmwm.250free.com/wxksformatchange.mp3
 
raccoonradio said:
There has been a delay between the two stations for awhile--you could tune to 1200 and then the same thing would pop up on 1430 about 6-7 seconds later. Well, that was reflected in the debut of the new format and is still in effect, that 6-7 sec lag.
Click to expand...

That's mainly because 1430 is broadcasting in HD Digital, which causes about a six to eight second delay in processing on their regular analog broadcast. 1200 does not broadcast in HD Digital, so they don't have that delay.
 
Ah, thanks.
I was just on that yahoo group about saving progtalk in Boston and someone there had said Romney had bought Clear Channel (really! news to me) and they said "sieg heil, y'all". Well, there are "extremists" on both sides of
the aisle and I am no stranger myself to at least kidding about the Left, etc. But even though most of my
"talking points" point right-ward, I'm the first to admit liberal talk if done well could succeed. And I'm not
out there arguing that it shouldn't exist on the radio. Radio as we say is a business ("and is not here for
your personal listening pleasure", as Mrs. Carlson once told Andy Travis on "WKRP in Cincinnatti")...and who knows, maybe liberal talk would be as popular as conservative talk someday.

Years ago the thought that political talk, sports talk, or even rock and roll would succeed on the radio
would be poo-pooed by "experts". Who's to say liberal talk might not eventually succeed? Though conservatives are admittedly getting a laugh about the demise of AAR in Boston and Madison, WI;
"but, I wouldn't worry. I hear they're not really big liberal towns..."
 
the transition...

What a shame that they did not prepare anything to mark the occasion.
Maybe if they had done something on air like the end of WHDH... ;D
 
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