Worst Station I've Ever Heard

[BigBird]

OK he narrowed it down. We all agree the IBOC  is pure garbage,but KAAM format is one of the last glimmers of hope in the gray world of DFW radio.

I live in Garland, and when I listen to 820, I often can hear the 770 signal in the background. Is this a result of the IBOC?

That is probably a result of being located under KAAM's antenna ... their transmitter is in Garland.

[rbrucecarter5]

For a religious broadcast network - they sure do not act like it.  Any suggestion that IBOC is hurting their sound, limiting their coverage, angering 99.99% of their listeners who used to like wide bandwidth or C-Quam stereo:  they bristle and respond in a most un-religious, rude manner.  Their sad devotion to the failed IBOC technology is pathetic - but they don't have to be rude to people who want quality sound and stereo back - until and if such a time when IBOC is a success with consumers (like THAT will ever happen).

[kfsr]

The worst oldies station I ever heard, was on a trip into Dallas Fort-Worth in the '80s, when Oldies was on 570, under the call sign KLDD. They were doing a sorrt of three in a row style, with the jock coming in and back selling the previous three or four songs, going into a stopset. This jock was an entry level female, who sounded as if she was called on in high school to get up and read from a book...very very slowly.

Five seventy K L D D, Kay...Oldie. We just played an oldie by Leslie Gore called it's My Party, and before that we played an oldie from The Four tops, another oldie by The Dave Clark Five, and we started off with an oldie by Joe Dowell called Wooden Heart, right here on five seventy, K L D D...Kay...Oldie. Coming up, you'll be hearing oldies by The Supremes, an oldie byThe Yound Rascals, and we'll start off with another oldie from Gary Lewis and The Playboys called This Diamond Ring, here on the station that plays the most oldies. Five seventy, K L D D...kay...oldie.

[PaulBWalkerJr]

- but they don't have to be rude to people who want quality sound and stereo back - until and if such a time when IBOC is a success with consumers (like THAT will ever happen).

How are they being rude to people?

[little1]

This topic has been dealt with before about KAAM.  The concept is good but, the execution is embarassing for a major market radio station.  That's what you get with $6.00 an hour djs.  We have talked about the clown on the Saturday night show who leaves his mic on and cues cds or records on-the-air.  If this radio station was located in Centralia, Illinois, in 1959, then the quality of the station would be acceptable.  Dallas is radio market number 5 and this station is a sad excuse for a major market station.  Having live personality would be a major improvement over any radio station today that is over consulted and mostly automated but, KAAM's djs make automation seem very attractive.  The more personality you do on a station, the more demanding it is for the dj
to entertain.  You get what you pay for.  None of the djs on KAAM has a fraction of the ability to make this station sound like a major market radio station.  The best example of this format done correctly would be WNEW
A. M., New York, from the 50s into the 70s.  Since it was also mentioned in this thread, KAAM has the deadest,
flatest audio that an A. M. radio station could have.  Maybe Crawford Broadcasting spends as much on their audio processing equipment as they do on their djs or their engineer is clueless.  There is one thing that is amusing about the station that is nostalgic.  The morning man, Jaan McCoy, is a classic puker on-the-air.

Sorry, I don't expect KAAM to sound like a 'major market' station because they get neither the ratings or teh revenue to qualify them as a major market station. 

I don't know where they are in the ratings, but do you really expect a station that's probably in the 20's rank-wise to sound 'major market"?   

[cjf68]

I have been listening on-line for the last couple of days and I think it sound great!!! Living in plymouth Mass. I
would kill for a format like this. There was a station on the cape (wocn104) that played the AS format and was doing quite well
until someone decided to do the wplm-wmjx `70`s to `00`s schlock and now it is very unlistenable. In fact,Boston radio is as bad
as it gets.

[TheLaffer]

This topic has been dealt with before about KAAM.  The concept is good but, the execution is embarassing for a major market radio station.  That's what you get with $6.00 an hour djs.  We have talked about the clown on the Saturday night show who leaves his mic on and cues cds or records on-the-air.  If this radio station was located in Centralia, Illinois, in 1959, then the quality of the station would be acceptable.  Dallas is radio market number 5 and this station is a sad excuse for a major market station.  Having live personality would be a major improvement over any radio station today that is over consulted and mostly automated but, KAAM's djs make automation seem very attractive.  The more personality you do on a station, the more demanding it is for the dj
to entertain.  You get what you pay for.  None of the djs on KAAM has a fraction of the ability to make this station sound like a major market radio station.  The best example of this format done correctly would be WNEW
A. M., New York, from the 50s into the 70s.  Since it was also mentioned in this thread, KAAM has the deadest,
flatest audio that an A. M. radio station could have.  Maybe Crawford Broadcasting spends as much on their audio processing equipment as they do on their djs or their engineer is clueless.  There is one thing that is amusing about the station that is nostalgic.  The morning man, Jaan McCoy, is a classic puker on-the-air.

Sorry, I don't expect KAAM to sound like a 'major market' station because they get neither the ratings or teh revenue to qualify them as a major market station. 

I don't know where they are in the ratings, but do you really expect a station that's probably in the 20's rank-wise to sound 'major market"?   

Rank has nothing to do with the way a station sounds. I've heard  stations ranked 3oth that sound better than 1st. Besides SOUND is somewhat subjective wouln't you agree?

[little1]

The point I was trying to make is that 'major market stations' don't pay their DJ's 6 bucks and hour. 

REAL major market stations pay major market rates (6 and a quarter  ) and therefore SOUND like major market stations.

KAAM may be in a major market, but they're not RUN like a real major marekt station. 

And chances are that station that's ranked 30th is sounding like a major market station because it's TRYING to sound like a major market station.  i.e, they're hiring major market talent, paying decent wages, etc etc...

KAAM has neither the ratings, the revenue, or apparently the corporate management to run the station like a 'major market' station.  Like I said, they may be IN a major market, but that's as far as they go...

[WGHRADIO]

    As Smokey would say "I Second That Emotion"

[KPLEXCOMPLEX]

Chuck Brinkman, Jack Davis,yeah they don't have major talent;) Thats a faux Paux. Major talent is a varied definition