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            Articles in this issue include:

BBC on KALW Overnight                    (David A. Kaye)
Begin the Beguine                    (Robert    Gervais)
Re: WCXR Washington, D.C., fires staff!            (Adeena    J. Mignogna)
Re: WCXR Washington, D.C., fires staff!            (Adeena    J. Mignogna)
KWIN is    no more                        (Charles E Newman)
Re: Chicago AM 1000 now    officially WMVP            (Scott D Fybush)
Re: Chicago AM 1000 now    officially WMVP            (Gene Fornario)
Modem Mania in Rochester NY                (GL)
Re: **RADIO WATCHERS REPORT - Boston **            (Scott D Fybush)
Re: **RADIO WATCHERS REPORT - Boston **            (Paul Ryack)
Columbus OH ratings                    (Kyle McPeck )
RE: Subcarriers    on TV stations??            (JOHN SCHMIDT )
Re: any    tounge-twister calls out there?            (John Seboldt)
Re: any    tounge-twister calls out there?            (Paul Anderson)

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Subject: BBC on KALW Overnight
From: [e-mail] (David A. Kaye)
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access    [phone]  [login: guest]


Just a note to say that KALW in San Francisco (91.7) is now running the
BBC live overnight from midnight to 6:00am.  This marks the first time
KALW has been on 24 hours a day since its start in 1940 as the first FM
in the West.  KALW Information Radio is a non-commercial affiliate of
NPR and APR, and also carries programming from Canada's CBC, and local
public affairs, arts, and music programming.

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Subject: Begin the Beguine
From: [e-mail] (Robert Gervais)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet


While there were several artists who recorded this song, who is recognized
as having the melifluous voice which made this song so popular? From my
short period of spinning wax, I seem to recall that it was Vaughan Monroe;
however, as memory improves with time, the details of things get lost.
    As is it at the moment, I feel a bit like the Flying Dutchman, con-
demned to wander about the halls humming..."When they begin...."
    Cheers Robert
--
ah948 Robert Gervais                May the best of the last
Kettle Creek Estates                Be the worst of the next!
Kemptville, Ontario

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Subject: Re: WCXR Washington, D.C., fires staff!
From: [e-mail] (Adeena J. Mignogna)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <2akkq6$[e-mail]>,
Tom Lacko  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>WCXR FM 105.9 Washington, D.C.'s struggling CLASSIC ROCK station has
>fired most of it's on air staff.  Gone are morning duo Herman & McBean,
>midday host Mike Kelly, PM drive announcer Mark Kessler, night announcer
>Connie Wells and late night announcer Brice Keegan.  Also set free were
>Dan Alexander, Promotions Director, and Mark Lapidus, Promotions Director.
>

Hmm... I heard that the new management fired ALL staff, on-air and
everyone else!  I can't remember his name, but the new Program Director
was quoted in R & R saying that WCXR would be remaining classic rock,
at least for now...

anyway, since I moved to the DC area, CXR has been my favorite
station and I'm pretty upset about this... I want to write a letter
to the new management to complain....

<sniff>

-Adeena Mignogna
 WMUC-650 AM
 Program Director
 Univ of MD

>


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Subject: Re: WCXR Washington, D.C., fires staff!
From: [e-mail] (Adeena J. Mignogna)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <2aph9a$[e-mail]>,
jwg <SEDV1.acd4.acd.com![e-mail]> wrote:
>In article <2akkq6$[e-mail]> Tom Lacko <[e-mail]> writes:
>
><much deletia about changes at WCXR>
>   The new program director will be
>   Steven Kosbau.  He comes from WXRK FM in New York (Howard Stern's home
>   station).
>
>Hmm.  This guy just started at K-Rock this summer... why is he moving
>already?
>
Again... I read about this guy in R&R and he said about leaving
K-Rock so soon, that it was really exciting to build a station from
the ground up.... something to that effect.

-Adeena

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Subject: KWIN is no more
From: [e-mail] (Charles E Newman)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)



    Top 40 KWIN is no more, they have turned it into a *^*#&#( religious
station. KWION was located in Elk Grove, Ca.

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Subject: Re: Chicago AM 1000 now officially WMVP
From: [e-mail] (Scott D Fybush)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

[e-mail] (Oliver Tse) writes:

>Chicago's AM 1000 finally identified itself officially as WMVP.
>I heard the following official station ID at
                       ^^^^^^^^
>9:07pm Central Time on Thursday October 29 during
   ^^
>a Blackhawks hockey game:

>"You are listening to Blackhawks hockey on Sports 1000,
>WMVP Chicago."

That may not have been a legal ID.  The legal ID has to come within
five minutes of the top of the hour, and must consist of the call
letters and city of license, with only a frequency or channel no.
allowed to separate the two.  It's very easy for a station to use
a legal-sounding ID most of the hour, like:

"Country 98, WCTK-FM Providence"

and then just hit the legal once at :55 or :56...

"Country 98, WCTK-FM New Bedford Providence."

Note that as many times as WCTK uses the "providence" ID during
the hour, their city of license is still New Bedford.  Likewise,
I don't believe WLUP(AM) has changed calls until:

a) I see it in M Street...they work from official FCC releases.

and

2) I hear "WMVP Chicago" within 5 minutes of the top of the hour.

-=Scott Fybush - [e-mail]=-


[Moderator's Note:  Far be it from me to question you <grin>, but my
antiquated understandings were that it was 2 minutes either side of
the hour *or* at the first natural break in programming as close to
the top-of-the-hour break.  No?  Bill]
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Subject: Re: Chicago AM 1000 now officially WMVP
From: [e-mail] (Gene Fornario)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <2asujj$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Oliver Tse) writes:

>Chicago's AM 1000 finally identified itself officially as WMVP.

Interesting... When did they drop the WCFL call?

(You can tell I havn't been in the area for quite a while :))

Gene--

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Subject: Modem Mania in Rochester NY
From: [e-mail]
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway

>  MODEM MANIA now airs on the TALK AMERICA Radio Network
>  ------------------------------------------------------

>  Here is a list of the radio stations that are part of the Talk America
>  radio network as of 10-8-93.

>   State    Call    Freq    Power    Coverage            Location
>  -------  ------  ------  -------  ------------------  ------------------
>    NY      WVKZ    1240    1,000    Albany              Schenectedy
>            WHUC    1230    1,000    Hudson              Hudson
>            WVNC    96.7    2,600    Potsdam             Canton
>            WYSL    1030    1,000    Rochester           Avon

Note to Rochester area listeners:  For some reason, WYSL did not carry this
program.  Does anybody out there know, do they carry it at all, or do they
carry it at some other time?  If so, please let us know!

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"The captain of the Exxon Valdez was tanked,
"And the mind of an American draws a hopeless blank
"When we say, 'This is an egg, and this is drugs,
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                        -Brenda Kahn, _Eggs on Drugs_

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Subject: Re: **RADIO WATCHERS REPORT - Boston **
From: [e-mail] (Scott D Fybush)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

Just to clarify the "company line" on WBZ allegedly buying WEEI:

Mark S. is quoting several reports in the Boston papers over the
last few days saying a deal is imminent for WBZ to acquire WEEI.

This is all coming out of WEEI.  There are indeed negotiations
going on, but the WEEI people have ignored our requests to keep
quiet while the negotiations continue.

As of Sunday 31 October, no papers have been signed and nothing
is official.  When it is official, I assure you the first thing
I'll do is post a note about it.  In the meantime it's all just
rumor and may never happen at all.

-=Scott Fybush - [e-mail] - WBZ radio, Boston=-

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Subject: Re: **RADIO WATCHERS REPORT - Boston **
From: [e-mail] (Paul Ryack)
Organization: Mount Holyoke College

Mark Shneyder 2-4219 ([e-mail]) wrote:
> * Group W Radio is about to add a second AM signal in the Boston market.
>   Group W which already owns WBZ-AM 1030(NewsRadio 1030) is about to
>   close the deal for financially-troubled Celtics owned and operated
>   an all-sports(with an exception of weekday morning syndicated Imus
>   show) 5,000 watt WEEI AM 590(SportsRadio 590). Both Boston morning
>   dailies report that the deal should be announced shortly. The sale price
>   is reportedly somewhere between $2.5 and $3million. When the Celtics
>   bought the station in the spring of 1990 they paid $6.5million to
>   Papa Gino's Pizza chain. The current all-sports format replaced
>   long running all-news programming in September of 1991. If the deal
>   goes thru  Group W will have 2 out 6 major AM signals in the city.
>   I would venture out and guess that Group W people will now try to make
>   a strong bid for the Red Sox radio rights which could make WBZ-WEEI
>   a real sports powerhouse(WBZ owns rights to NFL's Patriots,WEEI owns
>   rights to NBA's Celtics and NHL's Bruins).
>
What is the status of WVEI, Worcester, MA, which has been simulcasting
WEEI?  Do the Celtics own it, too?  Is it included in the deal?
Could those of us in western Mass. induce Group W to re-activate
WBZA in Springfield, since they seem to be in an expansionistic
mood   ;-)  ?




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Subject: Columbus OH ratings
From: Kyle McPeck <[e-mail]>
Organization: NONE


Here are the ratings from the Columbus OH market.

1.    WTVN-AM        8.3
2.    WSNY-FM        7.9
3.    WNCI-FM        7.6
4.    WLVQ-FM        6.9
5.    WHOK-FM        5.9
6.    WBZX-FM        5.2
7.    WRVF-FM        5.1
8.    WCLT-FM        5.1
9.    WWHT-FM        3.5
10.    WCKX-FM        3.5
11    WBNS-FM        3.4
12.    WBNS-AM        3.2
13.    WCOL-AM        3.2
14    WCOL-FM        2.9
15.    WWCD-FM        2.7

WTVN won big due to their morning show host Bob Connors.  WNCI-FM took a
small dive as they began increasing the rotation on *disco* music of all
things.

WHOK-FM won the country race between themselves, WRVF, WCLT.  It was
announced recently that WHOK-FM had been bought and the buyer was
interested in purchasing WRVF "The River".  WCLT-FM took a big jump as
they increased their promotions with their recent "100 days of Summer"
contest.

In the Oldies battle WBNS-FM came out on top beating WCOL who was also
beat by their sister station.  WCOL was recently purchased by Nationwide
Communications, owner of WNCI-FM.  It is rumored WCOL-FM  will go country
soon.....

WCOL-AM gained big on the news/talk format and Rush Limbaugh.  Sad news
for them that they are losing Rush to WTVN in December.




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Subject: RE: Subcarriers on TV stations??
From: JOHN SCHMIDT <[e-mail]>
Organization: NONE

Subcarriers do exist on TV stations, just like FM, but not for the same
purposes.

The most common subcarriers are those used for stereo, with a system somewhat
similar to that used for FM radio, but with some improvements.  The pilot
frequency is 15,734 Hz, locked to the horizontal sync frequency of the video
carrier.  The center frequency of the subcarrier (double sideband supressed
carrier) is double the pilot frequency.  The subcarrier (but not the baseband
L+R signal) audio(before modulation) is processed with a DBX noise reduction
compression algorithym, to compensate for the L-R noise which has always
plagued FM stereo.  There are some other differences also.

There is also the SAP subcarrier, Second Audio Program.  This is an "open"
subcarrier, intended for reception by the general public.  Most common use is
for second language (Spanish, etc.) or descriptive information for the blind
(done primarily by PBS).  Some stations have duplicated a co-owned FM, put the
BBC World service, or the Weather Service on the SAP, all of which causes gross
confusion when your four year old kid gets ahold of the tv remote control and
switches the TV audio to SAP, and the parents don't know what happened.
"something's wrong with the TV, when I tune it to Channel 13, you hear the BBC,
instead of PBS".  The best move seems to be either to turn the SAP subcarrier
off when it isn't needed, or program a mono mix of the main channel audio on
the SAP.

There is also defined a "PRO" (for professional) subcarrier, intended as a
"closed" or private subcarrier for TV station internal use.  The most common
use is as an "IFB" for ENG use.  That, for those not up on TV lingo is
"interruptible foldback" or the audio fed to the earpiece that the talent
wears, so s/he can hear the station, and the producer can, by pressing a key on
the intercom, talk into the talent's ear, "interrupting" the program audio.

I don't have my rulebook handy, but I don't think you can legally lease out
the PRO channel.  It is not anywhere near a full quality channel.

There also is space for a telemetry subcarrier for transmitter remote control.

There is no provision in the rules for an "SCA" type channel for leasing to
others for non broadcast-related private use.  There really isn't enough
bandwidth, the sound carrier frequency is really too close to the edge of the 6
MHz TV channel allocation.  If you crammed anything more in there, the
deviation would push you over into the next channel, or in the case of
band-edge channels, interfere with the services in the adjacent frequencies.

John

BTW, on a totally different subject, Harold H. might be interested to know that
LPB is now offering an FM "carrier current" system.  Not really carrier current
though.  They make a leaky coax, which you string down the corridors of the
dorm, it's like Radiax, but supposedly a lot less expensive.  They claim you
can get reasonable Stereo reception on most receivers, and still be within the
FCC radiation limits, if you put it every two stories or so in a dorm. From
what I understand, it only takes milliwatts to drive the coax.

We are considering trying it to replace the never listened to AM carrier
current transmitters we have in some dorms.  We have used the AM side as a
training ground before allowing new DJ's on the over-the-air FM station here.


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Subject: Re: any tounge-twister calls out there?
From: [e-mail] (John Seboldt)
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access System: 510-704-1058/modem

[e-mail] (Robert Casey) writes:

>Are there any hard to announce calls in use?  Something like KZJd, WFBL
>(which is in Syracuse, or was), WTQJ, KQPL, etc.  (just making these up

Waterloo, Iowa:  KLWW!  didn't listen to them much in the 70's, but boy, I
thought I'd never wanna work there just for that reason.  They even called
themselves "K-L-Double-W".  If I had to work there, I'd probably be
wondering after each ID:  "did I get all the syllables in?"  (Kind of like
trying to remember if you flushed the toilet that morning :-)"

:    John Seboldt...Mpls, MN...As a ham, K0JD...as a human...well,...    :
:     [e-mail] <alternate:  [e-mail]>      :
=====}>         LIFE+UNIVERSE+EVERYTHING=42 (Douglas Adams)        <{=====


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Subject: Re: any tounge-twister calls out there?
From: @nntpd.lkg.dec.com:[e-mail] (Paul Anderson)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <2api49$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Bill Raffel) writes:
>In article <2amq6g$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mark Wozniak, WBFO) writes...
>>In article <2akj0u$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Robert Casey) writes...
>>>Are there any hard to announce calls in use?
>
>In Glens Falls, there is a station WWSC.  A couple of announcers on the station
>had difficulties saying it (double "W" - S-C or Dah-bah-you Dah-bay-you - S-C).
>
>I thought that was bad until a station in Buffalo changed its call letters to
>WWWS.  It is largely satellite programmed, so I don't think the call letters
>give the station too many problems.
>
>It brings back to mind one of my first lessons at Ithaca College -
>"Double-you."
>
>

It's cruel that the FCC used the only multi-syllable letter in the English
language as the prefix for all eastern US call letters.  When there's more than
one "W" it's even worse, as Bill points out.

I worked at WWUH West Hartford Connecticut, at the University of Hartford.
Those calls were especially hard for new broadcasters.

What helped me to always pronounce the "W" correctly was to remember that
"there's an 'L' in 'W'".

Paul

    Paul Anderson                               [e-mail]
    Digital Equipment Corporation
    4 Technology Drive, Westford MA 01886-4196  [phone]


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