WOAI in Denton

[CallMeAl]

Coming in to work this morning, I could hear WOAI coming in pretty good in Denton and into Dallas. Their morning show was better than any of the ones currently on in Dallas.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Coming in to work this morning, I could hear WOAI coming in pretty good in Denton and into Dallas. Their morning show was better than any of the ones currently on in Dallas.

Perhaps their IBOC was down for service. Dropping HD causes a huge increase in coverage. I know before WOAI messed with that IBOCrap, I got them clearly in Plano during the day, pretty much overcoming the splatter from 1190. When they went IBOC, they were effectively gone.

 

[jras20]

I didn't hear the hash noise in a long time on WOAI did they give up on HD AM?

 

[daypart]

Perhaps their IBOC was down for service. Dropping HD causes a huge increase in coverage. I know before WOAI messed with that IBOCrap, I got them clearly in Plano during the day, pretty much overcoming the splatter from 1190. When they went IBOC, they were effectively gone.

I have an HD radio in the car that hasn't picked up WOAI in HD for several weeks. I'm thinking they've dropped the IBOC, maybe permanently. KTKR still uses IBOC, so it wasn't an across-the-board decision for CC.

 

[gabigley1]

WOAI signal has been much more reliable over the last couple of weeks here in Columbus, Ohio.
I listen to the station at nighttime during WOAI's sky-wave. Makes me wonder if this more reliable signal is because of WOAI dropping it's IBOC.

Here in Columbus, Ohio, CCs 610 and 1230 are still going strong on IBOC. WOAI may be back on
IBOC soon because they may be having technical problems. Its not a widespread thing for CC to turn off IBOC on its AM stations, unfortunately.

 

[gabigley1]

Artie -

the HD runs off of WOAI’s main transmitter which was down for a bit, due to repairs. When the main is down, so is HD. It’s back up and running so I suspect the HD will be returning soon.

Peter Bolger

Clear Channel San Antonio - Director of AM Operations

WOAI / KTKR / KRPT-FM / Total Traffic Network

210-785-2157

iHeartradio.com

 

[rbrucecarter5]

the HD runs off of WOAI’s main transmitter which was down for a bit, due to repairs. When the main is down, so is HD. It’s back up and running so I suspect the HD will be returning soon.

That is too bad - everybody has enjoyed the extra signal strength. I bet your penetration of office buildings in San Antonio was GREAT while it lasted ---

 

[CTHank]

Just wondering. Why put an AM signal on HD? Is there a real true benefit? I ask because I don't have a HD receiver and probably won't be getting one, so I was just pondering the question.

 

[mmnassour]

Just wondering. Why put an AM signal on HD? Is there a real true benefit? I ask because I don't have a HD receiver and probably won't be getting one, so I was just pondering the question.

(crickets)




The only possible reason for WOAI is that Clear Channel is in bed with iBiquity.

 

[gabigley1]

the HD runs off of WOAI’s main transmitter which was down for a bit, due to repairs. When the main is down, so is HD. It’s back up and running so I suspect the HD will be returning soon.

That is too bad - everybody has enjoyed the extra signal strength. I bet your penetration of office buildings in San Antonio was GREAT while it lasted ---

The quote above is from the WOAI PD, not me. He was explaining why WOAI was not in HD.

 

[Anonymouse]

AM HD at least sounds better than the normal bassy sound you get from an AM radio, only on talk programs though. With music stations it sounds like a low quality audio stream, that's because it's what it is.

 

[Kent]

I've heard HD makes AM sound like FM, but only if you can lock it in consistently. I have the HD Radio adapter and app for my iPhone, and, when you can hear it, it's pretty cool, but the adapter only works on FM. I suspect the lower power requirement makes AM even harder to get than it is on FM.

Last weekend, I was in Kansas City, and I could hear some of the FM translators that relayed HD channel multicasts farther than I could hear the HD signal!

 

[rbrucecarter5]

I've heard HD makes AM sound like FM, but only if you can lock it in consistently. I have the HD Radio adapter and app for my iPhone, and, when you can hear it, it's pretty cool, but the adapter only works on FM. I suspect the lower power requirement makes AM even harder to get than it is on FM.

Last weekend, I was in Kansas City, and I could hear some of the FM translators that relayed HD channel multicasts farther than I could hear the HD signal!

No - I have HD radios. It makes AM sound like medium bit rate streaming, in other words distorted and annoying - creating listener fatigue. I can get HD lock on WOAI when they run HD - quite a feat from Houston. It only takes a three foot loop, not your standard AM antenna these days, but I purposely force the receiver into analog on WOAI because the digital is so fatiguing to listen to. And analog WOAI even from 200 miles is completely clean and static free. Again quite a feat because HD saps a lot of the strength out of an AM station - as WBAP discovered in Ft. Worth and dumped it years ago. I guess their large, legendary groundwave and skywave signal was more important than it is to WOAI. But - I would think - WOAI would care about how HD makes their signal weaker over San Antonio and would care about building penetration.

 

[MisterRadio]

The IBOC seems to have a big effect on AM stations. They come off distorted and underpowered (that's on the AM signal, I could care less about ever getting an HD Radio). I know that 1300 in Austin just turned the thing off because it was screwing up the main signal that actually brought in revenue.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

The IBOC seems to have a big effect on AM stations. They come off distorted and underpowered (that's on the AM signal, I could care less about ever getting an HD Radio). I know that 1300 in Austin just turned the thing off because it was screwing up the main signal that actually brought in revenue.

Thanks for telling me - I bet I can get 1300 again in Houston now that they have turned off the HD power vampire!