Scott:
The reason DX'ers whine and moan aobut Radio Disney is because the way they
run things make it hard to ID exactly what station you're hearing if theres
more then one Disney station on the channel.
Paul
On Jan 8, 2008 11:53 AM, Scott Fybush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> LAWRENCE STOLER wrote:
>
> > I am not a fan of Radio Disney. I was dialing around a few years ago
> and
> > did hear sports on 1560 so I assumed that was left over as far as
> > contractual commitments from the days before the format change.
> > Larry Stoler
>
> I've never really understood the dislike of Radio Disney that seems to
> be common in the DX community. It's always seemed to me that there's
> something inconsistent about bemoaning the death of music on the AM dial
> and the disappearance of younger listeners, and then turning around and
> criticizing one of the few attempts that's being made to bring younger
> listeners back to the AM dial and to keep music alive there.
>
> I don't mind admitting that I'm a fan of what Radio Disney is trying to
> do. In a lot of ways, it's a throwback to what AM top 40 radio was back
> in the day - real live DJs, a ton of listener interaction, tight
> playlist, good production values. I'll take it any day over a lot of the
> other satellite-delivered dreck that makes up most of the AM dial at
> night these days.
>
> It's also been my experience that as long as the local automation is
> running correctly, IDs on Disney affiliates are quite consistent. The
> calls only air once an hour, in a floating break that usually falls
> between :57 and :02, just after an optional local cutaway and just
> before the "Radio Disney's back" top-hour network announcement. The rest
> of the IDs are either just "Radio Disney, {frequency}" or "{City's}
> Radio Disney, {frequency}."
>
> s
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Sincerely,
Paul B. Walker, Jr.
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