Re: WPLM-FM/99.1, Plymouth, MA

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 04:37 AM 12/27/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Pleasant surprise.  WPLM-FM seems to have returned to the Adult
>Standards that made it famous, several years ago.  Apparently, they
>have dumped the "Jazzy 99.1" format, that got nowhere in the ratings. 
>Whether this is a "dummy" format or the real thing, it is nice to hear
>Sinatra in full dimensional stereo on a solid FM signal.  I personally
>like the idea of a American Popular Standard station in the Boston
>area.  With WQEW /1560 "breathing-its'-last" tonight at midnight, this
>would be a fine consolation prize.  If 'PLM does it right with LIVE
>announcers and not do a half-assed job as in the past, it will do just
>fine.  At least now, WPLM seems to have full stereo production
>facilities.  When the elder Campbell ran the station, they were using
>only mono cart machines.  Only the turntables were in full stereo.
>Let's see what happens to 99.1 on the first of January.
>
I'm not sure whether the problem is multipath--but I doubt it. I enjoy the
music _a lot_, but where I live, the audio quality is _very_ muddy--no match
for WQEW, even given the fading of WQEW's signal and the legendary problems
with WRHC. The audio problem is definitely NOT restricted to one radio. I
know that either my stereo tuner or one of its speakers is having problems,
but the monophonic SuperRadio III has no such problems, and WPLM really
doesn't sound as good as I think it ought to on that radio or on either of
my car radios.

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