We (me and RadioInsight’s Lance Venta) spent barely three hours in Reading, Pennsylvania last fall – but that was plenty of time to see a few towers, and to grab most of the IDs in town. Now to get back for a Fightin’ Phils game this summer…
(And yes, I know I’m behind on some Texas IDs, which I’ll try to get up here this weekend. NAB Show month has that effect…)
Just completed the annual NAB/Las Vegas trip, and I recorded a few IDs in various markets. A few of these IDs are never-before-heard on Toppy. Check out the new sounds from Detroit, Flagstaff, Las Vegas, and St. George.
Time to start clearing through the backlog of IDs I’ve accumulated. Finally figured out a way to expedite the editing process, which should help considerably on my end.
Tonight’s update is from my visit to SoCal last weekend, flying into LAX in Los Angeles and staying down in Long Beach as I attended New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Strong Style Evolved show. It was a great trip, and luckily I was able to record a wide variety of IDs during my visit.
The uploads includes the first K-Love era 100.3 KKLQ ID to appear on here since the station was purchased by the Educational Media Foundation (possibly the savviest major group station owner in the radio biz today), along with regular and HD2 IDs for 92.3 KRLL and 101.1 KRTH. You might know of KRTH-HD2 as the last remaining terrestrial outlet for Radio Disney, which has shifted almost exclusively to digital/online distribution.
More soon as I begin to work through the backlog. And I should be able to record plenty of stations during my forthcoming trip to New Orleans, which will be my first visit there since 2010.
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Yep… we’ve finally swung around to our first set of IDs from the wonderful city that is Austin, Texas.
You can see some pictures over at Site of the Week – with much more coming this Friday and next over there, and more Austin FM audio over here next week, assuming we can squeeze in the time around the big NAB Show.
Another weekend trip to Chicago brings these sounds. I’m starting to pack now for the NAB/Las Vegas journey, which begins later this week.
Without a lot of big travel scheduled for the first third of 2018 (except of course for NAB next month in Vegas…and are you attending our fabulous Vegas Radio Party?), Lance challenged me to use the winter to take some day trips and freshen up our legal ID audio closer to home base.
And so this week’s update brings you a more-or-less-complete look at the radio dial as it appeared last Sunday in Olean, New York, including some flips that were just a couple of days old (Sound Broadcasting’s move of WZKZ 101.9 and WOEN 1360/96.3 to country “Drive” and the new simulcast of WGGO 1590 with “98 Rock” WQRS in nearby Salamanca). (Our “Olean” market also includes a chunk of nearby northern Pennsylvania, where we had some 2016 material that never got posted.)
Plus there’s a not-quite-complete scan of the Elmira dial from November-December 2017 (it spans the months because we spent the night of Nov. 30 in Corning) – and to finish off the Michigan IDs we’ve been posting, a smattering of stray IDs from the Flint MI and Port Huron MI-Sarnia ON markets we grabbed on the way home from the Lansing trip featured in Tower Site of the Week this week.
