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WJBR sold to VCY???

MarcB said:
The way a lot of translators operate isn't always Kosher.

Where I live our Classic Hits station is an AM with a translator and a few times I've heard the translator running different programming. - A couple months ago they had a glitch where they were running the same songs on an hourly loop. While the Italian Show and Lutheran Church Mass aired as normal on the AM, the translator continued on with the messed up Classic Hits feed.

They have a sister station that plays Spanish Hits. It supposedly originates at 104.1 HD2 and is on translators throughout the state - 97.1, 98.5, 99.5, 1017, 102.3, and 104.5 in 2 different areas of the state. On more than one occasion 104.1's HD channels were down, but their Spanish Hits format continued on the translators.
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Sounds like bomba's translators and the HD are fed over the internet and something crapped the bed going to the HD signal

Prob. similar with 990/96.1 and a failsafe tape kicked in when silence was detected

Not kosher kinda implies intent... rather, i think these were tech problems
 
I have an old Onkyo receiver as part of my TV set up in the living room and I decided yesterday to connect an antenna (it's been without one for years, rendering the tuner function useless). I just took a quick spin through what are obviously very old pre-sets. Right now, 99.5 Wilmington is suffering some sort of awful tech problem and the station is completely unlistenable. Good.
 
Miguelito said:
I have an old Onkyo receiver as part of my TV set up in the living room and I decided yesterday to connect an antenna (it's been without one for years, rendering the tuner function useless). I just took a quick spin through what are obviously very old pre-sets. Right now, 99.5 Wilmington is suffering some sort of awful tech problem and the station is completely unlistenable. Good.
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"awful tech problem" could be any number of things.. whats the issue?
 
I don't know whether it's still happening, but it was just little screechy bits of in-and-out audio. There was clearly a man speaking, but no one would have been able to make out what he was saying. It was more silence than sound, and when there was sound, it lasted for less than a second at a time. It's a goddamn smiting is what it is. lol
 
MarcB said:
Why am I not surprised? A lot if these "piped-in" ministries sound like crap. There is a Spanish language ministry that over the years has had affiliates in NYC, New Jersey, Long Island, and Connecticut and no matter which station it was on it was often times over-modulated and distorted.
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Audiophiles among the lower economic classes of first-generation Hispanics in America are few to none.
 
MarcB said:
Why am I not surprised? A lot if these "piped-in" ministries sound like crap. There is a Spanish language ministry that over the years has had affiliates in NYC, New Jersey, Long Island, and Connecticut and no matter which station it was on it was often times over-modulated and distorted.
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not all, but some.. frankly ive heard more commercial stations that sound like dung then piped in "ministry stations."
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
not all, but some.. frankly ive heard more commercial stations that sound like dung then piped in "ministry stations."
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Here I go, veering completely from the subject line of this thread: I used to hear some surprisingly questionable audio on B101! As recently as a couple of years ago! The funny thing is that some songs were worse (way worse) than others. I don't know enough about processing and audio chains, but it seemed to me the problem may have been with individual song files. I heard the station quite a bit over the holidays, and everything sounded normal.

Does anyone else ever hear a momentary drop in volume while listening to BEN-FM? This one seems to happen quite a bit, but I don't know whether it's just me starting (continuing?) to lose my mind. It sounds like someone just tweaks the fader for a second and then tweaks it right back where it was.
 
Good thing WJBR still exists in digital form; advertiser interest is off the charts! A whole $499.00 in revenue was generated in Q1!

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BEASLEY BROADCAST GROUP REPORTS FIRST QUARTER REVENUE OF $54.4 MILLION - Beasley Media Group, LLC

14.8% Digital Revenue Growth and Expense Management Lead to a $4.1 Million Reduction in Net Loss and a 16.8% Increase in Adjusted EBITDA NAPLES, Florida, August 3, 2023 – Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: BBGI) (“Beasley” or the “Company”), a multi-platform media...
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MarkW said:
Good thing WJBR still exists in digital form; advertiser interest is off the charts! A whole $499.00 in revenue was generated in Q1!

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BEASLEY BROADCAST GROUP REPORTS FIRST QUARTER REVENUE OF $54.4 MILLION - Beasley Media Group, LLC

14.8% Digital Revenue Growth and Expense Management Lead to a $4.1 Million Reduction in Net Loss and a 16.8% Increase in Adjusted EBITDA NAPLES, Florida, August 3, 2023 – Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: BBGI) (“Beasley” or the “Company”), a multi-platform media...
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Not even enough to cover the royalties to Xperi and ASCAP. Perhaps put it on a translator in Wilmington
 
Why would they call out "Wilmington Digital Revenue" as its own line item? Seems odd when, even in 2023, it was less than 5% of the total pie. Odd...
 
andygradel said:
Why would they call out "Wilmington Digital Revenue" as its own line item? Seems odd when, even in 2023, it was less than 5% of the total pie. Odd...
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Only reasons I can think of are 1) revenue is related to an asset that was sold which largely explains huge drop or 2) they set up a different corporation for Wilmington which is wholly owned by Beasley.
 
WJBR.com and Eric Johnson switched the station to all Christmas for Christmas in July. They’re going 24 hours with all Christmas for those who enjoy Christmas in July. I was able to record the change over from the everyday format to Christmas. This Love by Maroon 5 was the last song played, and Frosty the Snowman by The Beach Boys started the changeover. How fitting to start with Beach Boys for the summer version of Christmas.

Enjoy the changeover.
 
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