I listened to Q today...on 94.9!

[BobointheH20]

Very strange.  Hopped in the car about 12:30 this afternoon, radio on, and I hear the Q sounder.  The kids have been messing with the radio again, I think, but no, it's the 94.9 frequency!  I flip to 101.9, and the same song is on.  I flip back to 94.9 and it's the same song for a minute, then somebody got a clue and it abruptly switched to the 94.9 sounder. 

Can anybody else back me up on this?

[Tri-State Media]

That's odd. Sounds like somehow, someway, someone up at Bonneville got signals crossed on the 94.9 side.

[xmusicmatt]

Very strange.  Hopped in the car about 12:30 this afternoon, radio on, and I hear the Q sounder.  The kids have been messing with the radio again, I think, but no, it's the 94.9 frequency!  I flip to 101.9, and the same song is on.  I flip back to 94.9 and it's the same song for a minute, then somebody got a clue and it abruptly switched to the 94.9 sounder. 

Can anybody else back me up on this?

Someone hit a button on a switcher on accident maybe?

[microbob]

Why would they need a switcher in the first place? I have never heard them simulcast programming before.

[Tri-State Media]

Why would they need a switcher in the first place? I have never heard them simulcast programming before.

I beg to differ. A few years ago, during the great station reorganization of 2006, 94.9 (then WPRV-FM) and 96.5 (then WYGY) both broadcast "The Star" country format originally on 96.5. Soon after 94.9 was given to Entercom by Cumulus in exchange for WGRR, Cumulus moved the WPRV calls and the format back to 96.5. That didn't happen immediately - therefore, for a short time (and it didn't have to be very long, it could have even been as little as 5 minutes after the swap), 94.9 was owned by Entercom and simulcast 96.5, which was a Cumulus station. Of course, the "Star" format didn't last much longer, anyway - 96.5 was soon blown up, with the new calls of WFTK, starting the brief "Supertalk" era before becoming 96 Rock as we know it now. 94.9 meanwhile soon saw the launch of the format known as "The Sound" with the calls WSWD and 97.3 was blown up, taking the WYGY calls to run "The Wolf" as it does today.

And as if that is not confusing enough, recall too the numerous swaps between 94.9 and 97.3 when "The Sound" format was still running here.

[xmusicmatt]

Why would they need a switcher in the first place? I have never heard them simulcast programming before.

Even if a station does not simulcast often or at all a switcher can be used for all sort of purposes.. switch between a satellite show and local automation, switch between a news room feed and automation, studio and 100% automation... or for instance say a clear channel cluster wants to cover a major breaking event (say a major snow storm or something... they could easly simulcast their news stations studio programming on multiple stations if that station had a switcher to switch to that studios programming w/out having to rewire things)

[kc8kfg]

I believe Bonneville simulcasts a locally-produced Sunday morning talk show across all of its Cincy stations, thus, the need for a switcher.