billmich88888 wrote: ↑

Thu May 23, 2024 7:47 am

in the cases where a station is running 2 (or more) HD channels, are the audio on those stations still 5.1, or are the (one or both) downgraded to 2.0 (stereo)?

Stereo at a ridiculously low bitrate. The audio on some of these subchannels is embarrassingly bad.

WCSX has the highest HAAT currently at 951 feet at One Radio Plaza. WDVD and WYCD are both at 787 feet HAAT on the One Radio Plaza tower. Do they dIplex into a single antenna now? That facility is from a Section 73.213 short spacing agreement with WHNN and WUGN. WDVD is 20 kW, WYCD is 17.5 kW. Cumu...

The Hudson Tower, by any other name, but not to be confused with the Hudson Lookout Tower, an antenna farm area some 240 miles North, has been proposed to be 912 feet AGL to the roof near the corner of Woodward and Gratiot. No doubt that there will also be a ~100 foot communications tower or two on...

That's why the stations/media companies put those ridiculously long non-compete clauses in their talent contracts. They absolutely hate the free market when it comes to paying their employees. Because talent is a brand that gets an association with the station. These non-completes were the only ins...

Look at the night pattern of our humble WJR: https://nf8m.com/pattern_maps/current/NIGHTTIME-UNLIMITED/NIGHTTIME-UNLIMITED_760KHz-1.html When you can reach literally half of North America who can listen almost anywhere and for free, with radios already in their houses and cars, that's still an extr...

When Diamond Sports reached a financing agreement with their creditors, it stopped the early termination with the NHL and NBA, so it appears that Diamond was hoping to just return to business as usual and force basic cable customers to carry the load with price increases. Comcast wanted to put them ...

I am not familiar enough with streaming technology to understand what the scalability economics look like, though. Scales nicely when you use a decent content delivery network. Scales horribly when you try to roll your own as no one is going to be able to replicate what Netflix did a decade ago. Fa...

In my opinion, he's a first rate guy. He takes his assignments seriously to the point of getting arrested.

I am all for local sports rights on channel 20. I’m assuming it’s not going to a subchannel of 7 or 20. If they don’t come crawling back to 38 or 50, there isn’t much left. A subchannel of 4 would be most likely. I don’t see 31 or a subchannel of 2. Longshot is low power WHNE or not being in the ma...

Bally Sports has become unwatchable for both the Tigers and Red Wings. With their stupid "Pick The Stick" with the Tigers, and "Light The Lamp" with the Red Wings. Add John Keating to that list. The only ones on Bally that are watchable are Chris Osgood and Mickey Redmond. Mickey's a hoot. It reall...

What a sad tale ATSC 3 has spun. All they needed to do was provide something resembling 4k content, and instead they're off on the same tangents that brought them misery and disappointment with mobile ATSC. “There’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg phenomenon going on,” Michael Newman, director of transfo...

Looks like that might be their digital team?

RayQix wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:16 pm

Livonia area we had 5.5”……..

Taylor had nada.

I had a flight out of DTW that day at 1300 local, and the snow line was about a half mile north of the airport. It was a sharp line of snow to the north, nothing to the south that went northeast and very noticable as we took off.

The call sign has aged well.

Have not paid attention to radio ratings in a long time and all I can say is...well.

WJR at the bottom of the heap, sports-talk being a 9 share.