Author: Bob Cavanaugh
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As hot off the press as it gets
Last week, I told you we would be listening to an aircheck of KQMV that hadn’t been recorded yet to finish up our series on that station. This is that aircheck, recorded at about 8:30 P.M. yesterday and which I just got done scoping. I feel like that station has gone down in quality since…
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Is it possible for free automation to sound good?
In the past few years, I’ve become more interested in the technical side of radio. No, I don’t want to be an engineer, but I’ve become interested in how radio automation systems work, and from a listener’s standpoint, what’s necessary or not. I’ll be comparing two systems today, both of which can be downloaded free…
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KQMV November 8, 2015
In general, I try to record for between 50 and 75 minutes because that’s enough to get an overview of what a station is going to sound like. For various reasons, I have some that are longer and some that are shorter, but that’s what I aim for. I also find clips of that length…
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Station comparison, KBSO VS. WISH
When Reina Broadcasting launched Classic Hits Retro 104.1 on 1150 KCCT and a 104.1 translator in Corpus Christie in 2019, I didn’t think much of it. The format gained attention by industry writer Shawn Ross earlier this year when it moved from that pair of frequencies to 94.7 KBSO. It is the columns written by…
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KQMV August 13, 2014
I honestly can’t remember why I recorded this aircheck. My best guess is that it was the same day as I decided to record 95.7, which had just relaunched as the Jet, but I wasn’t done with what I was doing on my computer yet so recorded this. This is the lunch hour that day,…
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KQMV September 12, 2013
Today’s aircheck comes from the station we’ve been listening to for a few weeks now, KQMV Seattle. This was recorded on September 12, 2013. I mentioned last week that the aircheck in that post was recorded using the mic jack of the computer, this one is recorded using my computer’s line in, from the headphone…
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Why the Cumulus EMF deal of a few years ago doesn’t make sense
Before I start this commentary, I will announce that as of a few minutes ago, The Radio Crytic has officially been shut down, marking a significant evolution in my WordPress journey. That site had existed in some for or another for nearly 14 years, but now all my energy is going into this site. Now,…
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KQMV November 11, 2012
By the time I recorded this aircheck, I had been using my Olympus recorder for some time, plugging one end of a chord into the headphone jack of whatever I was using and the other end into the mic jack of my recorder. I figured that doing the same thing with my computer would work,…
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Is radio in a better position today than it was in the past?
This post appears to have been written in early November of 2018 for the Radio crytic, but never got posted up there. It seems to have held up well in the subsequent five and a half years, so with a few corrections, here it is. Also of note, there may only be one more post…
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KQMV August 27, 2012
This aircheck is one of only 16 in my collection that I recorded on cassette, though I converted it to digital almost right away. The only reason I did that was because I had a bunch of cassettes from previous things that didn’t contain anything I wanted, so recorded over them. It’s not evident here,…