A sad update to an old thread. WWJ recently reported the February 15 passing of Sandy Wood, longtime host of the astronomy program StarDate. She had such a silky, smooth voice, causing a lot of "driveway moments," that need to finish listening to an episode to its very end, before being able to shut...

Shame something as cool sounding as Pants Galore isn't still around. https://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/mallsandretail/2707/a001%5E1973%20article%20on%20chain.jpg What's the date of that article? Worth discussing over on a Tech forum, not here, is the story down in the corner (would like ...

If the copper is only worth $100, it's like petty theft. Misdemeanor at worse. So they were after the copper in the transmission line which was probably hardline/heliax, also the FM radiating elements (if they knew about those). Not to mention malicious destruction of property (est. $500K+), loss o...

TC Talks wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:27 pm

Pants Galore? Tops Galore? I don't remember either of those. Detroit was kickass in 1971.

Pants Galore was a frequent advertiser on WABX and other FMs in that era.

Oh no!
I sometimes twist the dial across the AM band late at night. Always found it amusing to hear Carl Babinski on WWJ, then on WBBM, WINS, WBZ, KYW and a few others, giving those local markets' forecasts within a few minutes of each other. Always opened with "Early on this __day morning..."

I've been listening to Deep Tracks on 308 on my desktop computer and notice a definite improvement in sound quality from previously on 27. Do the 300 channels possess an increase in bandwidth or anything else to account for this? They're feeding an IP stream, not squeezing frequency and level-compr...

Do not do anything else with that. Do not click anymore on anything! Clicking on that screen is a bad thing to do. It will just generate more dire "Warning" screens and possibly trigger a demand for a "ransom" of some sort (payable in BitCoin or convenience store generic cash cards). Absolutely don'...

Late Night on Friday 1/12, while the snow and ice was flying and before Xfinity went out on me, I channeled past MeTV (298/4.3), and it was simulcasting the Tonight Show, in some bizarre aspect ratio, instead of regular MeTV fare. They just can't get that sh*t right.

We can blame new GM Wendy Turner for the vapid rebrand. I see they've turned off comments on Facebook for the post where the rebrand was officially announced. I suspect many negative comments were received. I'll get used to the new name over time, but the change was unnecessary. Michigan Public sou...

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Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:29 pm

Why bother carrying Nightly News on a subchannel at all if this always happens? If they decide to preempt it, they shouldn't bother carrying it at all.

They don't appear to have a clue that "this always happens."

Walmart now has a TCL 43" for $176. Budget yes, but the price is great. Maybe 4K would look better on a smaller 43" screen vs a 55" screen. You would probably perceive little if any difference, at least on a set from the same maker. The better "look" people seem to take notice of is that provided b...

YUP, they managed to f*ck this up AGAIN.
YAY, WDIV and Hub Operations.
Still can't find the automation override button.
How hard is this, really??
It's probably in the User Guide.

From the C2CAM site, and announced on air Saturday night: It is with deep sadness that we share the news that Ian Punnett passed away from a brief illness yesterday. His keen intellect and delightful sense of humor will be deeply missed. Since 2000, Ian has, in various incarnations, been a valued ho...

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Honeyman wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 20, 2023 3:39 pm

Just heard "Do You Believe in Magic?" used for a Cambpell's Soup commercial.

The original Lovin' Spoonful version?

No. Not even remotely close.

Back in that era there was a subscription music service called Muzak that offices and other businesses would have piped into their establishments. In Detroit WMZK 97.9 was the Muzak station via a sideband from the station also known as SCA radio at 67 or 92 kHz. These may still exist today but the ...