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WBZ Now iHeart

raccoonradio said:
Indication of the future at WBZ?Read on facebook that longtime programmer Peter Casey is gone.
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don't overlook the part of the article including this quote by Peter Casey:

Reached on his cell, Casey said it had been a difficult day, but he had only nice things to say about the station’s new bosses.

“The [iHeartMedia] people have been terrific with me — respectful and impressive,” he said.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyl...dE2EZK/story.html?s_campaign=bdc:article:stub
 
Wimmmex said:
don't overlook the part of the article including this quote by Peter Casey:

Reached on his cell, Casey said it had been a difficult day, but he had only nice things to say about the station’s new bosses.

“The [iHeartMedia] people have been terrific with me — respectful and impressive,” he said.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyl...dE2EZK/story.html?s_campaign=bdc:article:stub
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Casey seems like a class act to have said those kind things about the impressive and respectful media group that fired him
 
inorm99 said:
Casey seems like a class act to have said those kind things about the impressive and respectful media group that fired him
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Ironic, a guy who was just let go can take the high road, but a bunch of people who have (presumably) never worked for them will use trite puns in their vapid posts on a radio board. I can't say I would go back to work for them at this point in my career (I did two tours of duty with them as Clear Channel), but I also realize that they're not as awful as outsiders portray them to be. Does the Peter Casey situation suck? Certainly. But there is always collateral damage when swaps/sales like this happen. It's just part of the business, regardless of ownership group.
 
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the “hour tone” that has been on forever. Do you think they’ll keep it?
 
ssetta said:
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the “hour tone” that has been on forever. Do you think they’ll keep it?
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I listened online last week and don't remember hearing it. Unless they changed it and the toh was just a quick ID nothing more.
 
If I remember correctly, the hour tone is generated from CBS News. I've heard it on other stations around the country, including WTOP Washington, prior to CBS TOH news.
 
ssetta said:
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the “hour tone” that has been on forever. Do you think they’ll keep it?
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I just heard it yesterday morning, so it is still there.
Keep in mind, with the content block (“bleep”) and digital delays, the TOH 00:00 tone doesnʼt reach the speakers until like 00:13.
I donʼt know why, though, as WTIC (with IBOC) passes theirʼs at exactly 00:00. :confused:
 
Youtube has the audio of some CBS Radio sounders including the top of the hour tone.Years ago TV stations did same thing.TVParty, a site paying tribute to classic TV, sounded that top of hour chime when you go to the site.(Don't think they still do)

WTIC Hartford has sounded code for the letter V as in victory at top of the hour for years.
 
Wimmmex said:
I seem to recall that one of the engineers said it was added at the transmitter location....after all the digitizing and processing.
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My understanding of the WBZ-AM TOH chime is that it was there long before they became an affiliate, and later an O&O, of CBS Radio. Further, for the TOH chime to be meaningful, it would have to be added EXTERNAL to any digital processing necessary to synchronize their analog and HD channel. So, yes, I agree the TOH is independent of both CBS and any digital delays. And I still hear it - OTA, that is.
 
iHeart owns 2 full power FM stations in Boston. I'm sure before long 1030 WBZ will have an HD channel either on 107.9 WXKS-FM or 94.5 WJMN. I guess it wouldn't pay to put it on 101.7 WBWL, since that signal is marginal.

Wikipedia says on its HD-2 channel, WXKS-FM runs "Evolution," an EDM format, which once ran on the main channel of 101.7. WJMN runs Bloomberg programming on its HD2 channel, which is leaving when 1200 WXKS also ends its Bloomberg affiliation. So 94.5-HD2 is the likely home of 1030 WBZ before long.
 
Not long ago someone noted a bunch of the HD2s and HD3s were gone.Went to my HD portable and found they were still there.They said oh no, I meant the streaming of the HD signals was gone.

Oh ok, but the actual signals were still on HD radio...well later I'll get my portable out and see what's there, or what's not there.That's how I found out WKOX was on 101.7 HD2.
I don't know if the companies wind up paying royalties/streaming (probably do) to get these signals on TuneIn etc. Even little WMWM is on TuneIn..but I wonder if it's big bucks for these major corporation HD signals there (goes by number of those getting stream?)
 
Gregg. said:
iHeart owns 2 full power FM stations in Boston. I'm sure before long 1030 WBZ will have an HD channel either on 107.9 WXKS-FM or 94.5 WJMN. I guess it wouldn't pay to put it on 101.7 WBWL, since that signal is marginal.
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I see it coming to 97.7.
 
OK I went up the dial on my HD portable here in Beverly. 98.5 had trouble settling on HD on its main signal; display for the HD2 was for a musical artist but the signal wouldn't work.HD3, nothing indeed.Had been WBZ 1030

All the other imvolved stations were not changed.WBZ 1030 didn't turn up anywhere, for me at least.And yes the display on 104.1 and its substations now does say WWMX..wait wasn't it supposed to go to WWBX?
 
Gregg. said:
iHeart owns 2 full power FM stations in Boston. I'm sure before long 1030 WBZ will have an HD channel either on 107.9 WXKS-FM or 94.5 WJMN. I guess it wouldn't pay to put it on 101.7 WBWL, since that signal is marginal.

Wikipedia says on its HD-2 channel, WXKS-FM runs "Evolution," an EDM format, which once ran on the main channel of 101.7. WJMN runs Bloomberg programming on its HD2 channel, which is leaving when 1200 WXKS also ends its Bloomberg affiliation. So 94.5-HD2 is the likely home of 1030 WBZ before long.
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Bim Skala Bim
 
raccoonradio said:
And yes the display on 104.1 and its substations now does say WWMX..wait wasn't it supposed to go to WWBX?
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Yeah, just a typo—I heard the TOH legal ID (as “WWBX”) yesterday morning at 4:05am.
 
Looks like WBZ got removed from both CBS Local and Radio.com. I wonder if the other stations will follow suit and get pulled too.
 
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