[BC] nominations for best sounding AM in your area?

[Barry Mishkind]

I think I"ve told these stories before: 
        1. Upon visiting a station in Idaho, I found a guy
                very unhappy with his Optimod into an MW5.
                He couldn't figure out what to do.  After a 
                few tweaks the station sounded great, stood
                out from the dial, and the engineer was happy.

                Two days later, as I was ready to leave town, 
                the station was muddy and soft. I stopped by
                and he sighed heavily; "The GM was upset 
                that we sounded different from the other stations."

        2. A local station was playing a cassette tape of the owner's
                daughter  on a shopping trip in Venice, Italy. The 
                audio was so muddy and low level that a friend
                pulled it off, and marked it un-airable.  The GM
                came running down the hall, yelling that the tape
                had to play no matter how it sounded - it was a 
                tax write-off for the daughter's trip to Europe.

At 09:23 AM 2/23/2010, Grady Moates wrote:
>> I will look into that. My GM must have heard me bypass the SEC
>> this Morning, because he called to tell me something was "Wrong"
>> with the Audio and I need to "fix" it., so the SEC is back in
>> line now.
>
>   It's amazing how programming and sales types get so used to the
>processing that they "prefer" the distortion, not realizing that
>it runs the listeners off in droves. . .