--- Scott Fybush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
> I've never really understood the dislike of Radio Disney that seems
> to
> be common in the DX community. It's always seemed to me that there's
> something inconsistent about bemoaning the death of music on the AM
> dial
> and the disappearance of younger listeners, and then turning around
> and
> criticizing one of the few attempts that's being made to bring
> younger
> listeners back to the AM dial and to keep music alive there.
*** I believe there are multiple things at work here. Bemoaning the
loss of music on AM is one segment of DX'ers but not all. Many DX'ers
would probably prefer talk to music in terms of adjacent channel
interference.
Further, a couple of reasons why DX'ers don't like Disney:
* Infrequent ID's
* Excessive overmodulation and sideband splatter
* Much of the music consists of poor-quality covers of older music
* Extremely constricted playlists
The first only applies when the Disney station is the DX target; the
others apply mostly to those of us trying to DX on the same frequency
or first adjacents.
My personal opinion is that because of the 3 lower points above, Disney
is my personal least-preferred music on AM from a purely DX
perspective. And none of those are 100% necessities to what they're
doing.
As to comparisons to what Top 40 was, Disney is all networked,
single-source, so the comparison fails for the same reason that
voice-tracking fails for a lot of non-DX listeners -- and I do
recognize that they couldn't even approach viability for the format
running local programming.
( just because you asked, <g> )
Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop
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