Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR
It's unlikely that WOR 710 will drop HD Radio any time soon. Clear Channel is a big player in the (God forsaken) HD Digital Radio Alliance. They are the cheerleaders for iBiquity and company. Without HD Radio, how could station owners break the rules to get HD-2s and HD-3s on to the legitimate analog FM radio channels? All of this gives me a headache! You should hear my very local WCBS 880 at night at my QTH. I'm only about 40 miles from the transmitter and I hear the digital machine noise under the program audio constantly. A joy to listen to. 'Compatible digital' Sure. Take out the digital noisemakers and the NRSC filters. Let my AM radio go! Karl Zuk N2KZ From: rick...@shellworld.net To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:58:59 -0800 Subject: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR All Access reports that Tom Ray is leaving WOR, where he's been chief engineer for more than 15 years. He'll be running a consulting business. I suppose the writing was on the wall after Clear Channel purchased the station. He was certainly a staunch IBOC defender in its early days, although he's seemed less optimistic about its viability in recent years. -- Rick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR
Hi Karl and all I sometimes listen to WCBS 880 over the internet, but annoyingly they block the local adverts and insert public notices or music which sometimes stops abruptly. Back in the 60s here I heard the real thing on MW, far more exciting days than the internet now. Sadly there are not so many clear channels in Europe now despite many MW stations closing. The expert UK dxers still pull in US stations overnight in winter but it requires being awake overnight or early and having a decent antenna, and a lot of patience. 73s Mike, UK From: Karl Zuk karl...@hotmail.com To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 11:35 Subject: Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR It's unlikely that WOR 710 will drop HD Radio any time soon. Clear Channel is a big player in the (God forsaken) HD Digital Radio Alliance. They are the cheerleaders for iBiquity and company. Without HD Radio, how could station owners break the rules to get HD-2s and HD-3s on to the legitimate analog FM radio channels? All of this gives me a headache! You should hear my very local WCBS 880 at night at my QTH. I'm only about 40 miles from the transmitter and I hear the digital machine noise under the program audio constantly. A joy to listen to. 'Compatible digital' Sure. Take out the digital noisemakers and the NRSC filters. Let my AM radio go! Karl Zuk N2KZ From: rick...@shellworld.net To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:58:59 -0800 Subject: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR All Access reports that Tom Ray is leaving WOR, where he's been chief engineer for more than 15 years. He'll be running a consulting business. I suppose the writing was on the wall after Clear Channel purchased the station. He was certainly a staunch IBOC defender in its early days, although he's seemed less optimistic about its viability in recent years. -- Rick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org/ To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org/ To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR
Can we have the best of both worlds - keep Tom Ray and lose WOR? I had a sports station underneath to the west in the wee hours, very briefly, and the likely options would be WA CA or ND. Saul / Burnt River ON From: karl...@hotmail.com To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:35:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR It's unlikely that WOR 710 will drop HD Radio any time soon. Clear Channel is a big player in the (God forsaken) HD Digital Radio Alliance. They are the cheerleaders for iBiquity and company. Without HD Radio, how could station owners break the rules to get HD-2s and HD-3s on to the legitimate analog FM radio channels? All of this gives me a headache! You should hear my very local WCBS 880 at night at my QTH. I'm only about 40 miles from the transmitter and I hear the digital machine noise under the program audio constantly. A joy to listen to. 'Compatible digital' Sure. Take out the digital noisemakers and the NRSC filters. Let my AM radio go! Karl Zuk N2KZ From: rick...@shellworld.net To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:58:59 -0800 Subject: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR All Access reports that Tom Ray is leaving WOR, where he's been chief engineer for more than 15 years. He'll be running a consulting business. I suppose the writing was on the wall after Clear Channel purchased the station. He was certainly a staunch IBOC defender in its early days, although he's seemed less optimistic about its viability in recent years. -- Rick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR
ND the most likely Todd Skaine Woodbury, MN 2010, PL 310 or Toyota radio Chernos Saul sau...@sympatico.ca wrote: Can we have the best of both worlds - keep Tom Ray and lose WOR? I had a sports station underneath to the west in the wee hours, very briefly, and the likely options would be WA CA or ND. Saul / Burnt River ON From: karl...@hotmail.com To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:35:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR It's unlikely that WOR 710 will drop HD Radio any time soon. Clear Channel is a big player in the (God forsaken) HD Digital Radio Alliance. They are the cheerleaders for iBiquity and company. Without HD Radio, how could station owners break the rules to get HD-2s and HD-3s on to the legitimate analog FM radio channels? All of this gives me a headache! You should hear my very local WCBS 880 at night at my QTH. I'm only about 40 miles from the transmitter and I hear the digital machine noise under the program audio constantly. A joy to listen to. 'Compatible digital' Sure. Take out the digital noisemakers and the NRSC filters. Let my AM radio go! Karl Zuk N2KZ From: rick...@shellworld.net To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:58:59 -0800 Subject: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR All Access reports that Tom Ray is leaving WOR, where he's been chief engineer for more than 15 years. He'll be running a consulting business. I suppose the writing was on the wall after Clear Channel purchased the station. He was certainly a staunch IBOC defender in its early days, although he's seemed less optimistic about its viability in recent years. -- Rick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR
All Access reports that Tom Ray is leaving WOR, where he's been chief engineer for more than 15 years. He'll be running a consulting business. I suppose the writing was on the wall after Clear Channel purchased the station. He was certainly a staunch IBOC defender in its early days, although he's seemed less optimistic about its viability in recent years. -- Rick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR
I'm sorry to hear that Tom Ray is leaving WOR. Although I disagreed with his feeling about iBOC, I know he was a good chief engineer. I wonder if Clear Channel will bring in a contract person. They have done that at other stations in there clusters. Larry - Original Message - From: Rick Lewis rick...@shellworld.net To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:58 AM Subject: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR All Access reports that Tom Ray is leaving WOR, where he's been chief engineer for more than 15 years. He'll be running a consulting business. I suppose the writing was on the wall after Clear Channel purchased the station. He was certainly a staunch IBOC defender in its early days, although he's seemed less optimistic about its viability in recent years. -- Rick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR
Last Friday Tom Ray put out a press release saying he resigned from Clear Channel and WOR to start his own consulting business. In todays Northeast Radio Watch Scott Fybush says: ** Begin Quote ** NEW YORK coverage begins in lower Manhattan, where one of the city's longest-serving broadcast engineers has parted way with the station he completely rebuilt last decade. Tom Ray's time at WOR (710) lasted just over 15 years, and what a decade and a half it was: he oversaw the station's move from its (very) longtime 1440 Broadway address downtown to the financial district, shepherded its New Jersey transmitter relocation through a veritable swamp of political and physical obstacles, and made himself a national lightning rod with his vocal initial support for HD Radio on AM.(Tom literally wrote the book on the topic, in fact.) Ray had been serving as national director of engineering when Buckley Broadcasting sold WOR to Clear Channel last year, and he gave up the remaining Buckley stations to stay with WOR. Now he's stepping down from that post to launch his own independent consultancy, Tom Ray Broadcast Consulting, with another big announcement coming tomorrow. ** End Quote ** ** Your Message ** All Access reports that Tom Ray is leaving WOR, where he's been chief engineer for more than 15 years. He'll be running a consulting business. I suppose the writing was on the wall after Clear Channel purchased the station. He was certainly a staunch IBOC defender in its early days, although he's seemed less optimistic about its viability in recent years. -- Rick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR
Interesting. I wonder since Tom Ray has not been much of a QSLer for WOR, I wonder if the new CE will be more pro DXer? If I ever log WOR from the West Coast, I would love to get a QSL from them. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin Seaside OR KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Tom Ray Leaving WOR
Well that's too bad that he's leaving but for better pastures. Any way he can do a parting dx test? ;) Todd Skaine Woodbury, MN 2010, PL 310 or Toyota radio Tom Dimeo a...@pa321.net wrote: Last Friday Tom Ray put out a press release saying he resigned from Clear Channel and WOR to start his own consulting business. In todays Northeast Radio Watch Scott Fybush says: ** Begin Quote ** NEW YORK coverage begins in lower Manhattan, where one of the city's longest-serving broadcast engineers has parted way with the station he completely rebuilt last decade. Tom Ray's time at WOR (710) lasted just over 15 years, and what a decade and a half it was: he oversaw the station's move from its (very) longtime 1440 Broadway address downtown to the financial district, shepherded its New Jersey transmitter relocation through a veritable swamp of political and physical obstacles, and made himself a national lightning rod with his vocal initial support for HD Radio on AM.(Tom literally wrote the book on the topic, in fact.) Ray had been serving as national director of engineering when Buckley Broadcasting sold WOR to Clear Channel last year, and he gave up the remaining Buckley stations to stay with WOR. Now he's stepping down from that post to launch his own independent consultancy, Tom Ray Broadcast Consulting, with another big announcement coming tomorrow. ** End Quote ** ** Your Message ** All Access reports that Tom Ray is leaving WOR, where he's been chief engineer for more than 15 years. He'll be running a consulting business. I suppose the writing was on the wall after Clear Channel purchased the station. He was certainly a staunch IBOC defender in its early days, although he's seemed less optimistic about its viability in recent years. -- Rick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
