Goodbye Magic, hello Ben

[westlife]

This week in the office we finally got tired of listening to Magic 98.3's Christmas music, so we made the switch to 95.7 "Ben-FM" from Philly.  All the up in Bridgewater (Somerset County), WBEN-FM's signal comes in surprisingly well on our early '80s boom-box, and Ben's mix of mostly '70s and '80s tunes does a surprisingly good job of pleasing most people in the office.

Even if their signal came in well, I would never consider NYC's "Jack", though.  Just as the ratings show, it suffers too much from the "angry white male" syndrome.  Ben is like Jack's kinder, gentler brother, with a better music playlist too.  And since I'm staying within their corporate family, I suppose Greater Media won't be miffed that my office switched from WMGQ to WBEN-FM (at least until after Christmas).

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"This is the New York Emergency Broadcast System satellite channel.  They took the crosstown bus."

[Tom McNally]

Ben sounds great in HD Radio, the technology
formerly referred to as IBOC.  

> WBEN-FM's signal comes in surprisingly well on our
> early '80s boom-box,

[westlife]

> Ben sounds great in HD Radio, the technology
> formerly referred to as IBOC.  

It doesn't sound so great when you drive around the wrong side of a hill and WBEN-FM's signal gets wiped out by the IBOC hash from neighboring WPLJ.  And of course the opposite is true for anyone trying to receive WPLJ in an area where WBEN-FM's signal is dominant.

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"This is the New York Emergency Broadcast System satellite channel.  They took the crosstown bus."

[KlassikKountry]

What does the Angry White Male music playlist consist of, Classic Rock, Grunge, Metal/Thrash-Speed Metal, Punk, Industrial?? I was under the impression most stations were catering to the Angry Black Male.  Never knew anyone thought the White Male was angry also, no stations ever catered to us.

[softmachine]

> Ben sounds great in HD Radio, the technology
> formerly referred to as IBOC.  

Actually, both are misnomers, aren't they? HD would imply something better than an MP3-grade signal, and 'In Band On Channel' digital signals fall above and below the center frquency (the 'saddlebags').
'HD' Should have waited for some of that 6MHz TV real estate to open up to provide all digital proprietary bandspace. This current system is just short of a 'clusterf@ck".