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WPXN CH 31 Audio
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toby
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> The audio on WPXN sounds like crap lately. Does Paxson even
> care anymore if not he should sell the station to someone who cares.
What were you even watching on WPXN to notice?
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> care anymore if not he should sell the station to someone who cares.
What were you even watching on WPXN to notice?
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> > The audio on WPXN sounds like crap lately. Does Paxson
> even
> > care anymore if not he should sell the station to someone
> who cares.
>
> What were you even watching on WPXN to notice?
> Hopefully when Bud and his reign of terror is over there
> will be something worth watching on 31.
>
It is so bad i noticed it surfing through Channels that something was wrong with the audio thats how bad it sounds
> even
> > care anymore if not he should sell the station to someone
> who cares.
>
> What were you even watching on WPXN to notice?
> Hopefully when Bud and his reign of terror is over there
> will be something worth watching on 31.
>
It is so bad i noticed it surfing through Channels that something was wrong with the audio thats how bad it sounds
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wxctintern
Guest
I was watching a Family Feud rerun last night on WHPX/26 which is the "i" affiliate where I live and I noticed the audio sounds like music on an AM radio station with no compression. It's still like that tonight. Is that what you're referring to with Channel 31?
> I was watching a Family Feud rerun last night on WHPX/26
> which is the "i" affiliate where I live and I noticed the
> audio sounds like music on an AM radio station with no
> compression. It's still like that tonight. Is that what
> you're referring to with Channel 31?
>
Exactly WPXN Channel 31 sounds like a low budget AM station.
> which is the "i" affiliate where I live and I noticed the
> audio sounds like music on an AM radio station with no
> compression. It's still like that tonight. Is that what
> you're referring to with Channel 31?
>
Exactly WPXN Channel 31 sounds like a low budget AM station.
> > I was watching a Family Feud rerun last night on WHPX/26
> > which is the "i" affiliate where I live and I noticed the
> > audio sounds like music on an AM radio station with no
> > compression. It's still like that tonight. Is that what
> > you're referring to with Channel 31?
> >
> Exactly WPXN Channel 31 sounds like a low budget AM station.
>
It seems that i-Pax is hemmoraging so much red ink, they can't hire the competent staff to run the network. Even engineering issues like sound mean nothing to them.
> > which is the "i" affiliate where I live and I noticed the
> > audio sounds like music on an AM radio station with no
> > compression. It's still like that tonight. Is that what
> > you're referring to with Channel 31?
> >
> Exactly WPXN Channel 31 sounds like a low budget AM station.
>
It seems that i-Pax is hemmoraging so much red ink, they can't hire the competent staff to run the network. Even engineering issues like sound mean nothing to them.
I wish PAX would sell out to real independent station in NYC only on 6PM-11:30PM rest of time info commercial junk. Losing Diagnosis Murder at end of month leaving onl reruns of Family Fued, Pryamid and Bonanza as watchable shows. Most large cities have a true indy station, NY used to have 3 before Fox, WB, and UPN. 31 stinks big time. Chicago and LA have true indys that show classics...Perry Mason, Wild Wild West, Untouchables, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-0, Kojak not so NYC.
K
Keith_Lake
Guest
PAX/i looks and sounds like doodoo on its entire network. The reason why they can't hire competent people is because when they do, the company treats them like disposable dishrags. Word gets around.
During my mercifully short tenure with the company at their eastern NC affiliates, there were several instances where the chief engineer and/or operations manager attempted to cover their own butts by blaming stuff on me that I had no control over. A viewer once called to complain that her picture was breaking up. Rather than attempt to find out if the viewer was watching the OTA or cable signal, they tried to pin it on me, claiming I wasn't "at my post" to catch the problem, like there was anything I could have done about it from there. I was very much at my post and I saw nothing out of the ordinary on that particular evening. It turned out the viewer's cable box outside of her house had gotten water in it, but I only found out about that three weeks later from the cable company. When you broadcast on UHF with less than full power from a mere 500-foot stick, you're bound to have signal issues from viewers accustomed to good reception via cable.
The second incident was even more pathetic. We simulcasted on two medium power UHF signals. We were having problems with the STL and telemetry. The chief engineer came in and proceeded to bump the carriers on and off on both channels DURING A COMMERCIAL BREAK. First one channel, then the other. On, off, on, off, on, off. No way was I going to sign my name to the log when I had no idea what had actually aired during all that on-and-off time. (I bet the viewer who complained about the aforementioned interference gave up and switched to a REAL station about then!) Anyway, I came in the next day and was told my services were no longer required because I had "omitted a log page and therefore falsified it". The chief engineer who did the carrier-bumping was the one who delivered this bit of news. If that isn't a blatant case of C.Y.A. at someone else's expense, I don't know what is.
About a month later there was an ad in the local paper looking for a chief engineer for the same PAX affiliate. I heard through the local grapevine that
their local sales manager had quit because she wasn't getting paid. If PAX/i
goes under, I have a bottle of champagne I've been saving for the occasion. The stations are a pathetic mismanaged joke and a total waste of spectrum and electricity and you can tell them I said so.
KL
<a href="http://home.nc.rr.com/gttyson/lastradio.html">The Last Radio Station<a>
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During my mercifully short tenure with the company at their eastern NC affiliates, there were several instances where the chief engineer and/or operations manager attempted to cover their own butts by blaming stuff on me that I had no control over. A viewer once called to complain that her picture was breaking up. Rather than attempt to find out if the viewer was watching the OTA or cable signal, they tried to pin it on me, claiming I wasn't "at my post" to catch the problem, like there was anything I could have done about it from there. I was very much at my post and I saw nothing out of the ordinary on that particular evening. It turned out the viewer's cable box outside of her house had gotten water in it, but I only found out about that three weeks later from the cable company. When you broadcast on UHF with less than full power from a mere 500-foot stick, you're bound to have signal issues from viewers accustomed to good reception via cable.
The second incident was even more pathetic. We simulcasted on two medium power UHF signals. We were having problems with the STL and telemetry. The chief engineer came in and proceeded to bump the carriers on and off on both channels DURING A COMMERCIAL BREAK. First one channel, then the other. On, off, on, off, on, off. No way was I going to sign my name to the log when I had no idea what had actually aired during all that on-and-off time. (I bet the viewer who complained about the aforementioned interference gave up and switched to a REAL station about then!) Anyway, I came in the next day and was told my services were no longer required because I had "omitted a log page and therefore falsified it". The chief engineer who did the carrier-bumping was the one who delivered this bit of news. If that isn't a blatant case of C.Y.A. at someone else's expense, I don't know what is.
About a month later there was an ad in the local paper looking for a chief engineer for the same PAX affiliate. I heard through the local grapevine that
their local sales manager had quit because she wasn't getting paid. If PAX/i
goes under, I have a bottle of champagne I've been saving for the occasion. The stations are a pathetic mismanaged joke and a total waste of spectrum and electricity and you can tell them I said so.
KL
<a href="http://home.nc.rr.com/gttyson/lastradio.html">The Last Radio Station<a>
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