Z94.3 South Bend Shifts To Quality Rock

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/219727/z94-3-south-bend-shifts-to-quality-rock/

Mid-West Family Broadcasting Classic Hits “Z94.3” WZOC Plymouth/South Bend IN has completed a shift to a deeper Classic Rock format.

Now positioning as “Quality Rock. Less Talk”, the musical shift matches the programming done on sister “95.7 The Lake” W239CJ/WQLQ-HD2 Benton Harbor MI. Both stations are programmed by MWFB South Bend General Manager/Director of Programming & Content Bill Gamble.

 

[Miles917]

Kinda unrelated but for some odd reason when 96.1 FM W241AD is airing a Colts game, the simulcast on 99.9 HD3 is silent. Why would they do this?

 

[Kent]

Kinda unrelated but for some odd reason when 96.1 FM W241AD is airing a Colts game, the simulcast on 99.9 HD3 is silent. Why would they do this?

The reason is probably because HD Radio broadcasting doesn’t happen in real time. HD Radio operates on an approximately 8 second delay, and that’s a problem if you’re either watching the game in the stands or on TV with the volume turned down.

For a station that operates in HD and airs a live event, ”live mode” is essentially turning off the HD on the main channel while leaving it up on any subchannels you operate. From what I understand, you can still access that HD signal on the main channel, but you have to have some technical know how to do it as your tune won’t automatically blend to it like it normally would.

 

[fedacct1]

Since WAWK fired up their completely unneeded translator in Auburn on 94.3, these guys are a hard catch in Kendallville. I finally listened for the first time in awhile last weekend while traveling. Really not much different than before aside from the imaging. Even as a classic hits station, they always wanted to lean classic rock. Just like about every other classic hit station in the state of Indiana!

Surely the station at 102.3 that barely makes it out of the field their transmitter is in didn’t drive them out of the format!