Re: WFNX --> WNHQ ?

[Mike Thomas <nostatic@earthlink.net>]

This happens a lot with simulcasts that run separate stopsets.  When
WPKQ-Berlin first started simulcasting WOKQ-Dover, the stepdowns and rejoins
were very sloppy, and it took awhile for it sound somewhat seamless.  I'd
imagine that you can still hear slip ups on 103.7 every now and then.

It's really bad out on Eastern Long Island--where it seems every other station
is simulcasting another.  WBAB-Babylon simulcasts on WHFM on the east end, and
WLIR-Garden City simulcasts on WDRE-Westhampton. Both run separate stopsets,
and most are pretty sloppy, even with today's technology.  The whole simulcast
craze out there started several years back on 107.1 in Hampton Bays (then WWHB)
when they dropped their (really bad) CHR format to simulcast WNEW-FM-New York.
Every stopset ran late, always dropping in on the jock talking up the next
song.  Today that station, known as WWXY, is part of a four way simulcast of
107.1 stations in New York and New Jersey (and I think one is just over the
line in Pennsylvania.)  Now THAT must be a production and traffic NIGHTMARE!!

Mike Thomas
WXLO & Mediabase 24/7

SteveOrdinetz wrote:

> At 10:58 PM 7/25/99 -0400, Chris Beckwith wrote:
> >
> >The "FNX Radio Network" is definitely *not* ready for prime time--the
> local breaks in Sanford are
> >abysmal (obvious repeated "national" spots that are just intended to fill
> time, late rejoins, poor
> >level matching between elements, etc.)
>
> We split some spot breaks on WJYY/WNHQ.  It took some fine tuning to make
> the cutaways and returns fairly seamless (and we can monitor both stations
> off-air, I can't imagine WFNX being able to hear Sanford).  We have to
> cross-check the logs daily to make sure there are no blatant traffic errors
> and we've had become really anal on making sure all :60s are EXACTLY :60 to
> the tenth of a second.  Once you get things running properly it sounds
> good, but it takes vigilance.

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