Indecipherable Football Game On WBOQ

[SteveOrdinetz]

At 01:42 PM 9/30/2006, Laurence Glavin wrote:
>At this very moment, 1:35 pm EDST Saturday Sept 30th, WBOQ-FM,COL 
>Gloucester, MA
>is broadcasting a football game.  I was just fooling around checking the 
>FM dial
>when I happened upon it, and noticed one thing:  the distortion level is
>off-the-charts!  I couldn't tell you the names of the teams, the score
>(not that I care) nor could I make out anything the announcers (who
>sound like the Young Turks on AirAmerica BTW) are saying.  Thanks to
>the clarity of FM, the drums sound like the coda to the finale of the
>Shostakovich Fifth Symphony (didn't Jerry Williams once say "those
>drums are driving me mad"?).  Bob Bittner used to opine that the football
>games on Saturday afternoons probably only reached the family members
>of the players, some alumni and the advertisers;  all of them must be confused
>today.

I once worked at a station where the PBP guy (in this case it was high 
school basketball) was deaf as a stump & cranked the output of the mixer at 
the gym to the max so he could hear himself.  Of course, he was also 
overdriving the Marti or phone hybrid by doing so.  Maybe that's what was 
happening here.