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89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by stopnswop2 » Mon Jan 28, 2019 4:48 pm

Oh when was the fire btw?


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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by ZenithCKLW » Mon Jan 28, 2019 5:03 pm

I think it was summer 2017? 800 went off the air and abruptly interrupted 580's programming to temporarily use the signal. I was listening to 580 when it happened.



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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by ZenithCKLW » Mon Jan 28, 2019 5:05 pm

It was May 1, 2017. Just checked my Tweets when I inquired about it to them.



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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by MWmetalhead » Sun Feb 03, 2019 3:43 pm

So this afternoon, for the entire 40 minutes I was in the car heading back home, RDS on 89X said the song I was hearing was "More Human than Human" by White Zombie.

Looking at the music log, it appears that song played at 10:30a this morning. :lol:

But, hey, at least the audio chain sounds decent this weekend!



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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by Ed Joseph » Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:27 pm

I've really wondered what the hell keeps 89X on their "far past the expiration date" format? 89X was okay in the early to mid 90's, but it's gone downhill fast since then. IMO that stick has needed a totally new format for 20 years.


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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by Deleted User 14888 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:45 pm

I agree with you Ed, The best years for 89X were the beginning years when Greg St. James started the Cutting Edge Format, Greg St.James and John O’Leary were the best thing that happened to that station, During the first half of The 90’s 89 X had some great numbers, As the 90’s became the 2K’s then the station started a downward trend and today to me an unlistenable station, But than again I’m a 63 year old radio retiree.



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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by stopnswop2 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 5:05 pm

89X is spoiled milk.
15 years past the expiration date.

Time to pull the damned plug


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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by That_Canadian_Guy » Wed Feb 06, 2019 5:45 pm

I disagree. 89X is sounding better than it has in many many years. Alternative music is POP/CHR at this point. 89X is rocking harder than WRIF without the 30min of commercials every hour. WRIF is having a mid-life crisis.



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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by Deleted User 14888 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 6:21 pm

Canadian Guy, I hate to tell you that this station is a Rock’n Roll has been and what killed this station is the very same thing that killed off CKLW and that is the Canadian Government, With all the bullshit Can-Con rules and regulations, This station and The River are crap anymore. Unlistenable shit is all that is generated from 88.7 & 93.9 no creativity whatsoever. Sad but true. And on top of that Bell Media could give two shits about any of their radio properties with the exception of AM 800 that is the only station in Windsor that Bell cares about,
And that’s even becoming a technical nightmare.



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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by borderboy653659200 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 6:36 pm

Of course,most American music is crap today also. The Can Con mandate of at least 50% Canadian content-artists,producers,etc.-began because in the late sixties,most non-famous Canadian acts were ignored by Canadian radio stations. These rules worked well for stations far from the border and ensured that Canadian artists,who had to vie for airplay from those of their nine times more populous neighbor, received their due,but for Windsor,Sarnia,Niagara Falls and other cities which were border crossing points and thus were having to fight for U.S. as well as Canadian audiences,the 50% Can Con legislation helped kill AM music stations such as CKLW here in Windsor .



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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by Deleted User 14888 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 7:03 pm

Can-Con was a small part of the problem but the larger problem is if CIDR wanted to go to a Top 40 Format today they’re not allowed to because CHYR is top 40 and serves Windsor and that is a rediculus law but the CRTC will not allow 2 Top 40 Stations in one market that’s a stupid law. So 89X and The River 93.9 are both stuck with loser formats. The CRTC is a bunch of liberal assholes who don’t know anything about the broadcast industry they never did and they never will. Personally I would change 89X to a Lite FM format and become a gold based A/C similar to what The Breeze was in the first month they debut and also what CKUE was when They were Lite FM, And on 93.9 I would do a Vintage Classic Rock Format and cover 1964- 1973 Vintage Classic Rock the stuff you don’t hear anymore. That’s what is needed in Windsor/Detroit and it could work and the Can-Con laws would also fit comfortably in both formats. And I would offer my services to Bell for free. So there you go it wouldn’t cost them a dime.



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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by stopnswop2 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 7:48 pm

There are plenty of formats to choose.
Why does The River HAVE to become top 40?


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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by Deleted User 14888 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:05 pm

They don’t It was just an example.



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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by stopnswop2 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:34 pm

No I'm just saying because I have seen everyone also talk about them flipping to either hot ac or chr


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Re: 89X - audio distortion yet again! WTF?!?!

Post by borderboy653659200 » Thu Feb 07, 2019 6:27 pm

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