I been listening to WQDR-AM occasionally online and I gotta tell you...it's the best sounding "Legends" station I've ever heard. A solid, well balanced playlist that is nuthin' but the real hits and the online processing is superb. The positioners are for the most part well written but the voice guy is a bit over the top and growls too much. They could use a natural sounding female to help balance him out. But that's my only real complaint. Well done!
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firecop947
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C.C. McCartney is the voiceguy. I agree with the comments. I only wish that Curtis would have put the format on FM. Raleigh/Durham would support a good Legends station.
surfdude said:
You mean 99.9 "The Placeholder"? ;D
Seriously, it sounded to me like they planned to scrap it from day 1.
VODood said:
Not for the Wolf stations in Dallas or Nashville. He may be fine but he sounds out of place here. Too young skewing.
I'm in Florida, and I'm listening to WQDR Country Legends online right now. AM 570 is sounding excellent, playing the real country classics. We have a similar station here in Gainesville, Florida - Country Legends WDVH-AM/FM.
Keep up the great work - Curtis Media Group - with the Country Legends on WQDR-AM 570.
Keep up the great work - Curtis Media Group - with the Country Legends on WQDR-AM 570.
They're probably running an AM receiver into the audio card on a computer. All streaming systems and sites apply processing to signals, and I imagine what we're hearing is the sum of all processing on the signal. I've found streaming always sounds better to feed a console (or automation) output to the internet. If anything (and the budget permits) put an AGC amp ahead of the feed, especially if the station is a live operation.
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Arbitron frowns upon streaming of direct off-air signals if they are PPM-encoded, so the days of doing that are coming to an end. It also sounds like crap, since streaming encoders do not play very well with audio that has been limited/clipped for terrestrial broadcast.
WQDR-AM is streamed at 32kbps/44.1 kHz sample rate. The audio is fed directly from the playout system, and the encoder is equipped with audio processing software that is specifically designed and intended for Internet streaming. For all intents and purposes, the WQDR-AM stream has an entirely separate "air chain" from the broadcast on 570.
WQDR-AM is streamed at 32kbps/44.1 kHz sample rate. The audio is fed directly from the playout system, and the encoder is equipped with audio processing software that is specifically designed and intended for Internet streaming. For all intents and purposes, the WQDR-AM stream has an entirely separate "air chain" from the broadcast on 570.
awsherrill said:
All that effort paid off. It sounds terrific. Gotta wonder if 570 sounds this good.
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FIDELIPACK
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I just tuned in to the stream and like it more than I thought I would being a rocker at heart. There are lots of pop crossovers I don't hear anywhere and some cool stuff from the Urban Cowboy era. Any chance this might end up on Curtises new FM? If 99.9 had done this five years ago they would still be around.
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