Glad to see your station is coming along Craig!
As for my Part 15, the official format flip to News/Talk took place Monday morning. (Though techincally the Talk programming started Sunday evening.
Thanks! Just curious what drove your decision to go to News/Talk? Is it the royalty issue or personal/public choice?
Mostly just the demographics that are closest to the transmitter. It covers the whole town of ~650 in rural North Texas but I had a hard time programming a music format for the area that wasn't already taken by a heritage station on FM. I also program the county's only full power signal which has the best music format for the area, so talk was a logical fallback. Plus with talk theres new content daily and I don't have to worry about wearing out songs. I might not agree with everything that is being said but I do get a good entertainment value out of it.
That makes good sense, especially since you have a county based radio that fits the music demographics.
Dead Air. It works for the local Dade City AM station on 1350. I think it's really popular because I hear or in my case, not hear it all the time. The nice thing about dead air is it's very easy to program. So I tried it with a Talking House with the enhanced audio. Having enhanced audio and knowing that the manufacturer tweaked it to 100 mW gives me piece of mind. Dead air assures that you will not have any complaints from the pesky FCC. Give it a try.
Is it all the time? Why would they waste the electric bill to transmit dead air?
I may try it to see how it streams. The next hour of dead air is brought to you by me. Enjoy!
Crags: It happens regularly. They are geniuses or morons. Give it a try.
There is a local guy that owns 4 AM stations and his country-western station put an unemployed lady with a history of local DJing into a board-operator slot with special permission to do daily editorials in lieu of too much pay, and this went on for awhile.
Then one day she must have grown tired of the situation because she broke format and ran all of her accumulated editorials back-to-back. I happened to be listening.
She was not heard again after that.
This is what I think probably happened, although how would I know as an outsider.
Some of the programming the stations air today. I know we all have our preferences, but some these stations don't even try. Perhaps dead air is better.
If I had radio staff, more power, an audience, "oh be still my heart."
I think I have a new saying. "Perhaps dead air is better." Tomorrow, I will try to work it into my conversation regulary.
As part of my clean up and trying to sound more like a real station. I have been cutting some promos for scheduled programming. I believe it gives any listeners I might have a chance to turn the radio off before the show starts.
All Craig Radio... All Day...
Perhaps Dead Air is Better!
I think about dead air.
Not everyone would recognize dead air for what it is.
Part 15ers know dead air and can tell the difference between it and nothing.
Dead air never really goes away. Even during strong modulation of a loud song there is always dead air in the background.
If it weren't for dead air, there would be nowhere for a modulated signal to be heard.
I have several dead air generators.
You can beat a dead horse but you can't beat dead air.
But, I do wonder if beating a dead horse while broadcasting would produce a different type of dead air. I think that it might produce odiferous air.
Perhaps dead air is better..
as my automated assitant. I turned the show over to him at 7:00 p.m. local time last night for the saturday evening doowop show that I worked pretty hard to put together with a few intros and even some promos that ran thru out the day.
Of course it was supposed to run as a music rotation change from my normal saturday classic country programming after the intros into the show start.
The show kicked off great as a doowop show, then continued regular programming! I was 50 miles away in my vehicle listening to the stream with my wife, one of our daughters, and one of my good friends, who is a music nut. My friend looks at me as a well known local artist began crooning and said, that doesn't sound like doowop to me...
So, I guess this happens. I will scold BJ the Blowup DJ next week on the air.
Of course we had many delays getting home, including a cranky grandson, a cranky grandfather...me. But, I went to the studio before 10 p.m. and discovered I had chosen the wrong rotation as part of the programming.
And I missed another ALPB meeting. As consolation, I had a cigar and a rum and coke about 10:15 while listening to the correct doowop rotation...
On the flip side, I am loving RadioDJ more and more as I learn how to manipulate it. The ability to choose rotations and setup rules is pretty cool. It can even run some of my vintage commercials at random as part of a rotation that is appropriate with the music I am playing.
Now, if I could only read and stay focussed while I am programming the next set.
My part 15 station demands a lot of my time and so do I.
It chews up programming and is always running short while I'm trying to get other things done but when the programming goes off the tracks and spills everywhere I can't concentrate and am forced to baby sit the station.
I came this close (pinching fingers together) to pushing the whole station out on the lawn, but it was while I was trying to cut the grass so, as usual, right in the way.
KDX improves life with its good programming.
KDX gets very annoying when it runs short of good programs.
As a smart woman from Arkansas once said, "How much you got without it?"
I currently do not run part15 I am internet only. Today I download a lot of programs to play on my station and later this comming week I will select the days and times for the programs to be played. I still have more programs to download.