timinbovey

Allow me to toss out my usual  random thoughts.

FM. It’s the answer. I don’t know about you, but get 200 feet or so from my house and you can’t see my front yard anyway.  People watching your display will likely easily be within range. And you’re broadcasting to cars, which generally have much better radios than any portable or home radio a…[Read more]

I view music as an unending continuum of artistic endeavor, with no boundaries (which is what genres are really all about).

But yet  you program your radio station by genre’? Or does Beethoven go with Black Sabbath? Frankie Yankovic goes with Miles Davis?

TIB

As a music major (who instead decided to go into broadcasting 45 years ago) I can assure you there are hundreds of different types of classical music.  Start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_genres_by_era

And maybe here:

Classical Music Genres

It’s similar to a non-rock and roll person saying there…[Read more]

Keith – You’re asking questions that I can’t help you with. I don’t stream my Part 15.  AT work we stream three commercial stations, and all I know about any of that is that the Skylaa system from the Smartcaster sends song data to Securenet through a second computer, and I send analog audio into the same  computer that has the dedicated purpose o…[Read more]

Well, let me toss out a few things.  First of all, you can’t pay SoundExchange $500 a year to cover all publishing. You also have to pay BMI,  ASCAP and SESAC.  They cover the licensing for the songs themselves (the song writers), SoundExchange covers royalties to the performers only.  You need to license ALL those groups.  Stream Licensing cove…[Read more]

I considered starting a new topic but since this started here, I’ll run with it.  First of all,  Artisan Radio said:  “Maybe if more broadcasters ignored the experts, radio wouldn’t be in the trouble it finds itself in.”  And to some extent I can certainly agree with that. Doing something different and taking some risk is one of the best ways…[Read more]

Some of the worst ever audio I’ve ever heard comes from “big city studios”.  Mostly they seem to spend a lot of time making things awful. The worst are those we receive for car dealers. Clients obviously tell them to make their commercials as loud as possible. These are a solid wall of super compressed maximum level eq’ed to hell blobs of sound…[Read more]

And now for a dose of reality.

In the “real world” no one takes time to tweak and produce what they’re putting on the air.  In the real world no one has time for that.

After nearly 44 years on the air in commercial radio I have never worked at a station where any serious amount of time was spent tweaking levels after the fact. Of course for…[Read more]

If you’re like to hear what a suitable program sounds like, here’s this week’s show from the ARRL. This show is broadcast weekly on many FM ham repeaters all over the country. Naturally you’d have to have a suitable ham license to broadcast these programs. usually they are broadcast by clubs via the club’s…[Read more]

As far as I know there is no system in place that will issue EAS/CAP/IPAWS alerts to computers looking at web pages.  Not even sure how this might even be possible.  Well, I take that back. An individual person with a web page can in fact use a text generator to run alerts across a websites page, much as a TV station does this on the air signal.  …[Read more]

At work we download weekly dozens and dozens of syndicated programs for broadcast, either on one of two 100,000 watt FM stations, or a 5,000 AM station.  All these programs arrive as mp3 files.  Most at 128, a few higher. These are anything from simply two minute news programs to three hour music shows. They all sound fine and never has a l…[Read more]

Broadcasting on the ham bands is allowed if, and only if, everything being broadcast specifically applies to ham radio news.  There were a couple ham news services that are commonly broadcast on two meter repeaters and other places on a regular basis. One from the ARRL, and one other that escapes me right now, and there are probably others.

The…[Read more]

My Comments:

Yes, I too knew people who were going to shut off their phones because they didn’t want any message from the President.  These people are stupid and uniformed.

The tests were sent out via wireless carriers (cell phones). Then two minutes later sent via other means, radio TV, etc.  Virtually all cellphones in the USA except for the f…[Read more]