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I’ve gotta go back to Austin…

May 10, 2018 By Scott Leave a Comment

Not just because Austin, Texas is one of America’s great cities, full of delicious food, great music and neat people – but also because when Lance and I spent a few days there last fall for the Radio Show, I tried to get a complete run of legal IDs, and I didn’t quite get to completion. A few stations didn’t run IDs while my recorders were running on them, a few signals faded out on me…and there was all that food to eat and urban goodness to enjoy.

But “incomplete” still has plenty of interesting listening, and this week we finally fill out the Austin FM dial here on Toppy (save for those few missing links). Enjoy!

Oh, THAT’s where those IDs went…

May 2, 2018 By Scott 3 Comments

I was so sure I’d finished up the last of my 2016 IDs…but what do you know? In making sure I had everything uploaded last week from Reading in September 2017, I realized that not only had I forgotten to upload a huge pile of IDs from the adjacent Harrisburg-Lancaster-York PA market. And while Lance and I left a bunch of recorders running in our hotel room near Harrisburg, we hit I-83 south to take in an Orioles game in Baltimore, with still more recorders running. Which is where 2016 came in – somehow, I never got around to uploading a near-complete run from Charm City that autumn, which I’ve now rectified. (I’ll try to get the rest of the Austin stuff posted this weekend!)

A Quick Stop in Reading

April 25, 2018 By Scott Leave a Comment

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…)

2018 NAB Field Trip

April 17, 2018 By Blaine Leave a Comment

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.

Strong Style Evolved

April 3, 2018 By Lou 1 Comment

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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Keep Toppy Weird

April 3, 2018 By Scott Leave a Comment

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.