Granco FM Tuner and LA Radio Station Rant

100.3 KFAIL

[@originalbluebuddha]

My uncle (who was a preacher) used to say listening to Christian rock was about as enjoyable as listening to Buddhist jazz.

[@ned8880]

You can't let that little gem go unused. You should immediately go out and buy a convenience store.

[@Masterkill45588]

Welcome to 711 we dont sell cigarettes because you will not go home and destroy your electronics what else can i help you with

[@tedbell4416]

Do all that then get fined for playing the music

[@JR-yl8qi]

Neilson works like this: You get a booklet in the mail. It says "if you hear a radio, write down the time and station" Everyone picks the safe channels, so those get written down. So their "ratings" go up. Here they play the same 11 songs day in, day out on a loop. Listen long enough and you'll hear them over and over again... perfect for a cube farm.

[@radiotvphononut]

We have not one; but, 2 KLOVE stations in my area in MS. I think one is at 92.5 and is out of Forest, MS and the other one is 98.9 in Quitman, MS. Both of these were country stations that were sold and I ended up with one of the turntables from the Quitman station, just before they sold out. It's a good thing I got there when I did because when the station was bought, they probably went in and trashed all the old stuff. As far as what KLOVE plays, it really does not do anything for me; but, I know of people (mainly 40's and younger) that listen to it and think it's the greatest thing since indoor plumbing (whatever floats your boat). If I want to listen to gospel music, I'll go with older material (same goes for secular music). I don't care if it's religious or secular music, the majority of what gets played on the radio is dreck.

[@Masterkill45588]

Sounds like fortunately where you are you still have a much better selection then what i have in western mass. We used to have wlzx (lazer 99.3) which at one time was a good rock station for newer stuff and now says "lazer 99.3 everything that rocks" yet inexplicably plays garbage id never consider rock such as rap songs by post malone. Though ive never been a serious country music fan i will state that 100.9 our local country channel has been destroyed by i heart radio and does things like play top country hit songs up to 3 times in one hour and submit us all to the horrible Bobby bones show. Rock 102, call sign waqy was the classic rock station sister station to Lazer 99.3. They now play classic rock for sure but you can right about set a clock by the play list its so damn predictable. Then you have mix 93.1 and kiss 95.7 which just play generic crap pop hits. On the am band all you've got is talk radio realistically. I can get 102.9 the whale out of hartford ct under the right antenna conditions with the right tuner and that is a quality classic rock station. Thats how i judge how well a tuner works in fact if its at my house with no antenna it should at least pick up some sort of signal from 102.9 although probably not in stereo and probably very weak. If even with an antenna it won't pick that up its weak. If without an antenna it cant pick up that way overdriven junk on 99.3 or 95.7 the tuner has issues.

[@Musicradio77Network]

And now, WPLJ is flipping to Christian Rock this Friday. Say goodbye to this iconic radio station in New York City after 48 years.

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

I live with someone who's in their 70's. All she plays is the god awful klove'esqe music. Its miserable.

[@jdod64]

as a Christian in the Bible belt. I can say swapping a loved oldies station for a contemporary christian rock station is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

[@BlankBrain]

8:27 By tuning to this station, you just boosted the listenership by 50%.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

Commercial FM and AM radio stations, along with their *constant* commercials, have had their *decades* in the sun. As we speak, they are being replaced by Internet streaming and MP3 players. At least *we* can build little Part-15-compliant transmitters and broadcast our favorite material into our vintage AA5 radios--and bring back those *wonderful* memories!!

[@mrjohhhnnnyyy5797]

That's what I do. I cobbled a simple FM transmitter, limited the range to easily pick it up where I want and not transmit far away. On top of that, I chose an empty frequency. Works a treat, and doesn't interfere with anything.

[@mrjohhhnnnyyy5797]

@@basketballjones6782 Oh my, what have I done! So scared now. I don't give a shit, chinese FM modulators for the car have the same range, nobody bans those.

[@Masterkill45588]

Id just like to kick back with a nice old am receiver and listen to quiet please.

[@Masterkill45588]

@@basketballjones6782 depending on wattage output level which it sounds as though he has ensured is very low, he is doing nothing wrong. Please tell me whats wrong when for under 20 dollars i can buy a pre made china special fm transmitter at walmart target or from Amazon.

[@mrjohhhnnnyyy5797]

@@Masterkill45588 It barely goes out of the house, through walls that is. And I live in rural area, I went around my property and the signal is diminished well within my property.

[@jeffking4176]

Just south of Jacksonville Florida, there’s a little town called Palatka. In that town there’s a little radio station, WPLK. “We play ANYTHING “- Is their motto. It’s a great oldies station ❗️ And they really do play just about anything. You have to have a “SuperRadio” or something to get it, But now they simulcast on FM her in Jacksonville. Very cool ‼️

[@garymckee8857]

I used to work in Jacksonville sometimes and when I got off work on Friday morning I would take the back roads to St Cloud were I resided at that time and I've been through there it was more relaxing than fighting traffic on 95.

[@oscarflores1980]

If the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is ever repealed it would be the end of corporate radio!

[@oscarflores1980]

@@misterhat5823 hey it's Mr hat How U been?

[@basketballjones6782]

@@dadsvespa Please show us those pictures of this person holding a weapon to your head, forcing you to listen to him.

[@OlegKostoglatov]

As opposed to the corporate oligarchs at ABC, NBC, and CBS or George Soros, or Tom Styre, Bloomberg, Zuckerberg, and the boys at Google? As for dividing the nation, where do you think that Antifa and BLM fit in?

[@wickerbill7793]

I grew up in LA and I just turned 76 yrs old. In the late 50’s AM rock n roll radio in LA was KFWB, KRLA, KHJ, and in Orange County KWIZ. GREAT DJ’s, Bill Balance, Don Steel, Joe Yocum, Elliott Fields, Jimmy O’Niel. All played top 40 hits of the 50’s & 60’s. Then came FM stereo, KNX, KLOS, KMET, then came metal. Those were fun times listening on my Emerson $5 AM tabletop. So now it’s my old vinyls on my old Pioneer sx535, hooked up to my 12” JBL’s. And they sound great with big bass too.

[@franklynpolster8949]

It's an FM receptor. Disigned as a way to add FM to an AM only consoles with a record changer. It's connected between the record player and chassis. Turning it off allows the phonograph to be used. Turning it on disconnects the phonograph as it inserts its self in circuit.

[@budandbean1]

Good call, exactly correct! I’ve also seen them used with the pre-war Radios with the weird early FM Bands so you could get FM. Long before stereo FM...

[@jordandoe2768]

Great commentary, honestly I haven't listened to commercial radio for years now, iheart has F****** up classic rock stations so badly by trying to "cookie cutter" the format of just playing the most well known songs by great bands. Yea, I don't wanna hear "Rock and Roll" anymore, can I get a song from maybe the Presence album, and yes we all know how in love the world is with "welcome to the jungle" but is it just out of the question to hear "Rocket Queen" ? Can I hear "Seasons of wither" instead of "love in a F****** Elevator??

[@JohnSmith-qz7jx]

The sad fact is that we are getting older and classic rock is eventually destined to disappear off the airwaves like the big band music and non-christmas music from crooners such as Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby have faded away because the people who liked to listen to it are now either dead or in nursing homes.

[@Musicradio77Network]

John Smith Unless you get oldies all the time. You should get Rewound Radio online. rewoundradio.com Or you can get other choices if you have your TuneIn app like WGNY's "Fox Oldies", this can bring a lot of LA rock and oldies listeners to hear it in the Hudson Valley from loss of KSWD's "The Sound", and WLUP's "The Loop" in Chicago. I have a link to share with you guys. wgny.tunegenie.com In addition, they got "The Best of Wolfman Jack" on Saturday nights, plays great music from the days when the Wolfman was king of the airwaves. He was from LA when he did his show from syndication. BTW, KSUR's "K-Surf" was down than WGNY in the Hudson Valley, because of low ratings, and WROW's "Magic 590/100.5" in Albany did pretty well over "K-Surf" and "Fox Oldies", thanks to "Disco Saturday Night", the most successful dance music show on Saturday nights playing the music from "Disco 54", "Paradise Garage" and other great clubs playing disco and club classics from the days of WKTU's "Disco 92" and "92 KTU" and WBLS from the 1980's. I listened to "Disco Saturday Night" every Saturday from 10 PM until 3 AM the next morning in the east coast which would be my late night dance music after hours.

[@kevinsvideodump]

It depends on the market. In Philadelphia, the highest-rated station is Classic Rock (WMGK). In NYC it also does very well (Q-104.3).

[@Musicradio77Network]

@@kevinsvideodump Alongside with that, there's WPDH in Poughkeepsie playing classic rock along with another classic rocker WBWZ's "Z93".

[@matthewbestdfghy]

Im thankful we have the oldest rock radio station in the world in St. Louis. Voted #1 in the city. Not going anywhere.

[@atschirner]

Spent a lot of summer nights in the '70s listening to KSHE-95

[@TonyFleetwood]

thats what we said about 106.9 wccc hartford. howard stern was a dj as well as a lot of other good people over the years. now its christian rock and the long history of wccc is dead as a result.

[@jeffking4176]

matthewbestdfghy Oh Yeah ❗️ K.S.H.E.-95‼️ Sweet Meat, and Ruth Hutchinson ‼️

[@jeffking4176]

atschirner You, And about half the teens in the St.L. Metro area ‼️

[@markmarkofkane8167]

51 years and counting!

[@craignehring]

That Granco sort of reminds me of a set top UHF tuner. Them were the days, prior to1963 me thinks then the FCC mandated all new TV's had to have a built in UHF tuning

[@brianfletcher9774]

My Dad had an AudioVox FM converter for his 1973 Mercury Grand Marquis Brome. I also had a VHF TV audio converter for my cars. That thing was bought in 1998 from RadioShack. Both converters required slug tuning them to 1400 AM. Thank goodness we don’t have a station on 1400 around here.

[@ESDI80]

I've really given up on radio. Even our good classical station has gone down hill which plays mostly solo instrumental type classical music. Like I want to listen to strait piano or classical guitar music for hours on end. I've noticed that the sound quality on most stations either lacks bass response, or is so compressed that it sounds tinny and muffled. It's really sad when the audio is tuned for streaming over cell phones rather then for listening on a good Hi-Fi tuner. I feel some stations lack so much bass to where I have to turn the bass all the way up and it sounds flat! Then the repetitiveness is so bad you end up being in a bad mood because it's over played and everyone else's music. Oh and some stations play more commercials than music and seems all stations play commercials at the same time. Here it's Clear Channel, Max Media, and I Heart Radio that own all the stations. This is probably the reason I am in such a lousy mood driving into work in the morning! I miss the radio of the 90s that I grew up with when there was variety and good music being aired.

[@billb6029]

I-Heart Radio is so chock full of ads it's getting annoying to listen to.

[@MrBillmcminn]

You mean the Spanish catholic talk station on 87.7 with the low power analog video carrier gets higher ratings than K-LOVE?

[@7c3c72602f7054696b]

"Bring back a classic rock station." Hell yeah brother.

[@JacGoudsmit]

Step 1. Keep them dumb, sick and poor Step 2. Provide entertainment for free and make them think that's what they want Step 3. Make more money Rinse lather repeat.

[@TerryMcKean]

Well, just say "Get thee behind me, Satan!!", and really mean it, and then listening to that music won't seem so bad. ;-) The Granco radio's really nice... thanks for sharing.

[@superhet7281]

Shango, BTW, Granco was the trade name of W. T. Grant, a discount department store chain in the eastern US. Not sure if they were national. Enjoyed the rant. Always enjoy your videos.

[@Wenlocktvdx]

FM tuners were sold in Australia during the FM trials from '49 to '60. The trials were only in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. They were shut down in 1960 to use the FM band to expand TV and in 1967 station VM3Y was licenced in Melbourne on 534.5mhz to test FM broadcasting on UHF. Reason prevailed and FM launched on 88-108 in the early 70s. None of those tuners seem to have turned up anywhere and would be very rare if they did. Australian radio stations seem to be owned mainly by a very few networks which don't offer anything of much value to listen to. Austereo, Southern Cross, Nova, KIIS, TripleM, Pacific Star, Fairfax, MacQuarie Media

[@gravis346]

Entercom sold 100.3 KKLQ to Educational Media Foundation, which is K-LOVE. Cumulus Media did the same thing to classic rocker 97.9 WLUP "The Loop", which was a heritage station here in Chicago. They sold it to Educational Media Foundation, back in March of this year. It's now K-Love. It's also at the bottom of the ratings (and they don't care about ratings) but since they national and mostly funded by donations, they won't be going anywhere anytime soon. In my opinion, K-Love should be on an HD side channel.

[@Musicradio77Network]

gravis346 I agree with these two stations. I remember KSWD's "The Sound" and WLUP's "The Loop", the two great rock stations in both Chicago and LA. I'm in New York, and I listened to the last day of "The Sound" back a year ago until the station flipped to "K-Love" at 4 PM EST And then, a month later in December, WGHT which was an oldies station in Pompton Lakes, NJ ended after a 25+ year run playing the music from the 50's, 60's and 70's. At 3 PM, the station signed off forever when the last song "Dance to the Music" by Sly & the Family Stone faded away into radio history. I have scoped airchecks from WGHT's final day as an oldies station. WGNY's "Fox Oldies" and WROW's "Magic 590/100.5" are the two competing oldies station are still continues to do battle. I might share dozens of scoped airchecks sometime later.

[@gravis346]

@@Musicradio77Network ,WLUP last song, ironically was "Highway To Hell", lol. 97.9 WCKL-FM K-Love (former Loop) doesn't even show in the top 30, persons 6+. // Chicago’s top 30 radio stations from 6 a.m. to midnight Monday through Sunday, as measured by Nielsen Audio in October, followed by format and average quarter-hour share of listeners age 6 and older (with September share in parentheses): 1. WVAZ 102.7-FM urban adult contemporary, 5.7 (5.7) 2. WBBM 780-AM/WCFS 105.9-FM all news, 5.6 (4.8) 3. WOJO 105.1-FM Mexican regional, 5.3 (5.0) 4. WLS 94.7-FM classic hits, 5.0 (5.4) 5. WTMX 101.9-FM hot adult contemporary, 4.6 (4.1) 6. WSCR 670-AM sports talk, 4.2 (4.3) 7. WDRV 97.1-FM classic rock, 4.1 (4.4) 8. WUSN 99.5-FM country, 3.7 (3.7) 9. (tie) WXRT 93.1-FM adult album alternative, 3.5 (3.6); WLIT 93.9-FM adult contemporary, 3.5 (3.2) 11. WRME 87.7-FM soft rock oldies, 3.4 (3.8) 12.(tie) WGCI 107.5-FM urban contemporary, 3.1 (3.1); WKSC 103.5-FM Top 40, 3.1 (3.1) 14. WBMX 104.3-FM classic hip hop, 3.0 (3.3) 15. WGN 720-AM news talk, 2.8 (2.8) 16. (tie) WSHE 100.3-FM adult contemporary, 2.6 (3.1); WKQX 101.1-FM alternative rock, 2.6 (2.7) 18. WBBM 96.3-FM Top 40, 2.4 (2.4) 19. (tie) WLEY 107.9-FM Mexican regional, 2.3 (2.2); WPPN 106.7-FM Spanish adult contemporary, 2.3 (2.6); WBEZ 91.5-FM public radio news talk, 2.3 (2.3) 22. WPWX 92.3-FM urban contemporary, 1.7 (1.9) 23. (tie) WEBG 95.5-FM country, 1.5 (1.6); WLS 890-AM news talk, 1.5 (1.7) 25. WMVP 1000-AM sports talk, 1.4 (1.2) 26. (tie) WCKL 97.9-FM contemporary Christian, 1.2 (1.0); WFMT 98.7-FM classical, 1.2 (1.0) 28. WVIV 93.5-FM Spanish contemporary, 1.1 (1.1) 29. WMBI 90.1-FM Christian ministry, 1.0 (1.2) 30. WERV 95.9-FM classic hits, 0.8 (0.9)

[@w8lifter1]

W L U P sucked and I am glad its gone. The same 50 song playlist over and over and over for the last 30 years

[@Musicradio77Network]

w8lifter1 Yeah right! This is why i don’t listened to that stuff these days. WGNY-FM “Fox Oldies” plays the same 100 songs over and over and over and over again according to Tunegenie, but it lacks 80’s hits. WROW’s “Magic 590/100.5” plays more oldies than “Fox Oldies” but it adds a lot more 70’s and 80’s hits that you can find on any classic hits station mixing with oldies from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. And let’s not forget, WABY in Watervilet dumped the oldies format back in March where it flipped to AAA as “The X”, and that format didn’t last long until the station finally went dark by May, because Empire Broadcasting to pull the plug, and that brought WABY to an end. WABY was a great oldies station than WGNY and WROW, one of the competing oldies station where they play oldies, plus a bunch of MOR standards that you can’t find on any station that they used to play them anymore like WNEW-AM and WQEW in the 1990’s. And of course, by the end of 2017, around New Year’s Eve, WLIX out on Long Island went off the air, and so did KQV in Pittsburgh when it was an all-news station finally pulled the plug after almost 100 years when it was a originally a top 40 station than WABC did in the 1960’s.

[@gravis346]

@@w8lifter1 That what they do, got to keep the playlist safe and familiar. I worked in radio for 24 years as a music director and my hands were basically tied. Kept a tight ~300 songs in rotation and did music testing two time per year. When I first started, it was not as bad as it is today. If you take one of the large owners of radios stations and pick a format, the music is most likely scheduled by one person and played on all of their stations across the country, same with talent and with voice tracking. It all screwed up.

[@racecar_spelled_backwards868]

Christian rock doesn't make Christianity look any better, it just makes real rock-and-roll look worse!

[@jeffking4176]

racecar_spelled_backwards Depends. Much of it, yes is garbage, but a lot is also actually edifying.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Here's something that's better than Christian rock. Have you listened to WGNY-FM? It's an okay oldies station, but I prefer WROW's "Magic 590/100.5", because it has oldies than WGNY-FM did, but they add plenty of 70's and 80's hits thrown in like the one you hear on any classic hits station. Listen to a little bit of Bob O from September 3rd. kzbin.info/www/bejne/onK9qYtraL5jpZo As you listen carefully, you can hear songs that you hear on "K-Surf", and on the former 100.3 "The Sound" which was KSWD. You hear "Love Me Two Times" by the Doors, and that song was usually heard on "The Sound" when it was a classic rock station prior to "K-Love". How about some Richie Norris for ya! He's still on "Magic", but it plays the same as it was heard on WGNY-FM, and the music itself is much of the same as it's being playing on "K-Surf", and some can also being heard on "K-Earth". But sadly, you can't get "Magic 590/100.5" if you are in the LA area via TuneIn and on the "Magic 590" app. If you have not heard it before, take a listen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5rIe6GlnKyqlbc

[@SanderOlbermann]

I tell you what...

[@kevtris]

At this point, I am probably going to set up one of those cute little $10 MP3 players off ebay with a huge SD card and a low power transmitter to listen to my radios at home. Guaranteed to have good music and no commercials.

[@jeffking4176]

kevtris I was thinking along the same line.

[@xaenon]

I'm working on such a setup now. Radio just isn't any fun anymore. Everyone's on a ridiculously short playlist of about 30 or 40 songs that just gets played over and over, in between the 20-minute block of commercials and the incessant chatter of the deejays. There are a few 'good' stations left, and there's one in my area that's awesome late at night, but beyond that, it's just crap. And don't even get me started on the AM side of things. I could listen to AM if it offered more variety, but it's all chatter and gospel in my area.

[@kenheitmueller69]

I think radiotvphononut and 12voltvids do that.

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Accidentally transmits in a 10 km radius on purpose.

[@seanaiello4984]

Same thing happened here in Chicago about 2 years ago when new ownership pulled the plug on the rock format on a Chicago radio institution, 97.9 The Loop (previously The Loop FM 98 late 70's through early 90's) Its now one of those "K Love" Christian "rock" satellite computer programmed deals. It was cool that The Loop signed off with "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC at 12:00am before the garbage spueing, dick breathed, mind controlling,subliminal message sending devils in "Christian" clothing took over.

[@stanervin6108]

Dayum! First "first" I have firsted! Love your teardowns and repairs! Sub for over a year

[@pcno2832]

I'll bet most of these ended up on top of pre-war console or tombstone radios; at least they'd be hearing it through a 12" speaker in a cabinet that was already part of the decor. I don't know what these cost, but it was probably much less of a hassle to just buy an AM/FM radio than to upgrade a typical AA5 .

[@budandbean1]

This is one of the better ones. Most I’ve heard don’t really sound too good, I’ve heard a couple of these and they work really well, wish I had one!

[@Madness832]

These days, I've drifted to the left end for the college stations.

[@w8lifter1]

Sirius X M

[@jasonthejawman5442]

I saw your previous video why replacing LA radio Rock station that's been around for Generations you know someone once told me don't mess with it if it ain't broke Shango you're awesome I'm here, Long Island City N.Y. where I'm from

[@danielbingamon3895]

I remember living in Montana right against the Canadian border and would listen to Canadian AM radio, 800 CHAB out of Moose Jaw I believe. It was awesome, I preferred it over the U.S. stations. The DJs seemed friendlier and they actually reported good news.

[@jimlocke9320]

Until the late 1960s, I think FM broadcasting consisted mainly of simulcast of a sister AM station and a few classical music stations. Some experimenting was done with stereo on sister stations where one channel was broadcast on the AM station and the other on the FM station. I don't think that worked very well. However, the FCC issued an order where sister FM stations had to broadcast different programming from their AM stations for a certain number of hours per day. In Boston, on Oct. 12, 1966, WRKO complied with the order by implementing an automated top 40 format called "ARKO-matic" with no DJs (just an automated voice), #1 song played at the top of the hour every hour, and no commercials. (With very few listeners, it could not attract advertisers, anyway.) The format was a smashing success. Teenagers bought FM (or AM/FM) radios in droves. However, the format's success was its undoing. With a significant audience, the station was able to attract advertisers. I was a college student in the Boston area at the time and had constructed the FM radio project described in "Introducing the Compactron" (Popular Electronics, Sept. 1961, p. 45). I didn't care for classical music and was very pleased with WRKO's new format. I believe that WRKO deserves a lot of credit for developing the market for FM radio, maybe spreading from Boston to other markets, but I have not done the research to confirm that.

[@waltschannel7465]

Another cool radio saved from the dustbin! Neat reference amp as well. The K-LOVE Christian stations are listener supported and ad free except for pledge drives, which are frequent and lengthy. Trust me, I know this... 😄😜 My wife listens to the Seattle K-LOVE station. All to say that despite the extremely low ratings you might be stuck with it for a while unless the K-LOVE folks don't get enough subscribers in the LA area.

[@benwinter2420]

I'd listen to Christian radio over hip hop . . hell I'd walk out of any area anytime where that garbage was playing

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@benwinter2420 My only real problem with Hip-Hop and Rap (other than it doesn't suit my tastes) is that all too often it tends to glorify violence and conveys disrespectful messages about women and African-Americans, among others.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Here in the Hudson Valley area, there's another Christian rock station which is similar to "K-Love" called "The Sound of Life". I listened to it while I was on my way to prevoke every Wednesday, but I don't care about that station. It has the same songs that you hear on "K-Love". There's also a website for the "Sound of Life" as well, including a web stream. soundoflife.org/ I don't listened to Christian rock on the "Sound of Life", because it's the Hudson Valley's version of "K-Love".

[@javierbiaggi3072]

Radio broadcast is in shambles world wide. Sweden just closed the last FM station! Fm is invaded by religious programing. Shortwave is an endangered animal, they are dropping like flies, even the Vatican closed their station. Am is ruling but they are struggling to get commercials since the service industry is shy of investing on ads on AM. And there is internet...! You are right and there is a fight to monopolize the waves by few companies just like the fight to monopolize cemeteries and funeral services. This is the realms of oligarchy that the ruling plutocracy is pushing. The forefathers of the country saw it coming and were hesitant to sign a Constitution without the Bill of Rights incorporated in it.

[@AiOinc1]

We used to have some good stations here... 97.7 The Peach, classic rock -> Christain rock 103.1 the Vulcan, classic rock -> pop music 106.9 the eagle, classic rock -> nonexistent or much weaker than it used to be

[@jerrycarriera8648]

When I lived in CT, the same company Educational Media Foundation purchased a popular classic rock station WCCC-FM and changed the format with the same as KKLQ and with the same ratings results. You would think they would take the hint!

[@MsCori76]

Gee I wish we had that much of a variety of stations like you have in LA, here in Mudgee! We only have 2 FM which is Real FM & Classic Gold Hits FM (similar to K-Surf) & 1 AM, 2MG unfortunately. To have a great selection like LA, we have to travel 3 hours to Sydney (the city) to hear them.

[@RedbaronYo82]

I enjoy your running commentary as much as your video subject matter.

[@andyfab65]

Here in Chicago, one of our great old rock stations was recently replaced with a Christian rock station.

[@rkmklz7562]

Classic Rock and Oldies is needed on the radio....K Earth was the best station on FM in the 1970s...it changed in the 2000s...

[@joshm264]

Here in the DC market, K-Love has 2 affiliates (as if one wasn't enough) and it replaced what used to be a good local Hot AC station (if memory serves correctly), and they even took 95.5 WPLJ in New York, which VWestlife showed on his channel

[@Rfk1966]

Well said. There are already umpteen million christian stations in the market already. Part of the reason for their low ratings may be the fact they are way up the dial from the other ones. Either way, hope they flip it to something else after another crappy ratings period. BTW, picked up 1260 k-surf north of Sacramento Friday morning. Strong morning inversion.

[@bones007able]

My brother-in-law plays in a christian rock band.....I went and listened to him once there were about 10 people in the church audience ...calling it rock is a misnomer.... they use electric instruments ... so they call themselves a rock band...sure ain't rock that I ever heard of... more like easy listening to bible verses ...sorry but it was boring....that FM tuner had a lot of sensitivity ...

[@RichardHartness]

Well... I wouldn't consider what I'm hearing right now on this channel or what you're describing as "Christian Rock", although they might consider themselves that. This is strictly "Christian Music". Back in my younger days, we use to listen to much more "underground" music (for lack of a better term.) I'm not going to say that you'll love the bands that I'm about to mention, but if you want to hear a real, diverse set of Christian Rock that's Christian Rock, look up Blindside (hardcore), Living Sacrifice (death core), Slick Shoes (old school punk), Project 86 (rap core), Saviour Machine (Euro goth/prog rock), The Danielsen Family (experimental weirdness, of which Sufjan Steven's branched out from) & Stavesacre (New Rock). Many of these bands could command crowds of 500-1000 people at any given concert and were never well known. Many of these bands that I mentioned were bigger bands in the scene back around 2000. After I graduated from college, I lost interest in keeping up with Christian Rock. My point is that if anyone happens to read this after hearing thing video, this stuff on the radio just isn't Christian Rock, it's generic "Christian Music". I might have moved on but it's still a bit tough to just let it go. Some of the above mentioned bands might not have been the best of all bands out there, but they were doing a good job forging a sound that was uniquely there own, even when compared to much of the mainstream rock of the late 90s and early 2000s.

[@DeLorean4]

Reminds me of a quote from King of the Hill: "You aren't making Christianity better, you're just making rock worse"

[@2davydo]

@@RichardHartness HAHAHAHA I remember back in the 90s I had some friends in church they used to listen to what was known as CHRISTIAN DEATH METAL. Was hilarious.

[@ckhughes5]

I work in radio and indeed 100.3 is owned by "Educational Media Foundation." They are listener funded and don't advertise so they really don't care about the ratings. However, they do have quite a fat bank account thanks to their faithful listeners. Also the ratings you saw down below look like the secondary digital channels HD2, HD3 etc

[@ckhughes5]

@All About Phil You're right. I'll have to check with our engineering. I believe we encode both the stream and our over the air the same so the numbers are combined, but I think you can do it the other way as well.

[@josephtome9600]

Music on hold (MOH) cannot carry liscensed content such as local radio programing. We used to offer a weather radio connection to clients to cheap to pay. The weather radio service is furnished to the public royalty free.

[@SeanDamonGreene]

Warning: Listening to Christian Rock is spiritually contra-indicated. :-P

[@thepatsny]

First of all they don't care about their ratings that religious station they just care about getting their brand out there and it's funny here in the New York area we have a station called 1071 the peak and they been making reference to Lost case and listeners listening to them they have a show called the 10 at 10 where they play 10 great songs from one great year which is the best thing on radio right now and the DJ says with all my West Coast listener so I should call it the 10 at 7

[@AMStationEngineer]

Among the last few jobs which I accepted, prior to retiring (2010), the station near my hometown developed what could best be termed "an internal component compatibility" issue, caused by the station's own engineering department . They were always a prompt payer, never a second notice. Within five days, that station was sold, and you've guessed it, to a 'parochial - centric broadcaster, which had received a summary of indebtedness, and an agreement which required the new owner to 'satisfy the obligations of the previous owner. I'm still waiting for that payment; In 2011, I filed a lean against both the property itself, which disallowed any attempt at sale, and the .org's ability to sell the business itself, without first satisfying that obligation. The previous owner offered legal assistance, which I accepted, to recover their unsatisfied obligation. "It's a violation of principle, that indebtedness was initially incurred by me." (meaning him) He paid almost $2,500.00 of their $9,800.00 debt, prior to his passing.

[@richardweinberger2756]

Who knew about these dinosaurs? Here I am, not thrilled with my AM-only Airline console, when on the Bay I see a wood cased Pilot FM converter circa 1947, so I hit it and now it's being shipped from Minnesota, where the seller said he had twenty of those !!

[@davewm9589]

I have one of those sets but it has a audio amp and built in speaker (same cabinet) Very nice sounding set.

[@justincase3880]

As another commenter said, Granco was a house brand from WT Grant stores, aka Grants .. I remember from back in the 60s. They were a major “department like” store, with a sort of, Woolworth’s appearance, in the downtown area, back when downtown shopping was in vogue, predating malls.

[@vicmabus1532]

When this tuner was made (1950?), many people had a home "Hi-Fi" system without FM, as FM was brand new. Like the early car converters, this was a way to upgrade without buying all new stuff.

[@andymann1231]

As far as I know here in the UK we don't have any religous content on our radio as far as I know mind you we do have BBC radio's 1/2/3/4/5/ just as bad I think keep up the good work I love your electronics videos

[@danilorainone406]

true vintage that to own a tv.radio you need a license?

[@FlatBroke612]

vintage electronics repair how do you know when to pray to Allah then?

[@klafong1]

Ownership of the 100.3 license in Los Angeles transferred to the Educational Media Foundation, the same as 97.9 did in Chicago. There's no going back. :(

[@LakeNipissing]

KPWR (Power 106) used to be high in the ratings, but it looks like KRRL (Real 92) has split the listeners for current hip-hop / R&B. Respect to Power 106 for competing with both iHeart and Entercom.

[@rexoliver7780]

I am with you--sadly commercial radio today is a SEWAR!!The big station chains need to be BROKEN UP as the networks were.they are too fat for their britches and cannot serve adequately.I worked in commercial radio in its older days-70's-thru 80's.Now work for a non commercial gov't short wave transmitter plant in Greenville,NC.The adudio from here sounds BETTER than the garbage shotgunned over the air by todays commercial stations-haven't these guys learned the loudness wars ended 20 or more years ago?Radios in homes addn cars have much better sound quality than years ago-so the boom!Tick! Tizz! is no longer required.On my Toyota JBL car system the stations sound like boomy,tizzy CRAP!!!Male announcers sound like they carry their balls in a wheelbarrow-and with female announcers you hear the hiss of HVAC stuff in the background.Also stations forget that most car and home systems have CD,MP3 players.Home systems can add a record TT.I am a new subscriber and like yours and Radiotvphononut videos.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I remember a year ago this month that KSWD's "The Sound" flipped to "K-Love". I have airchecks of the last day, and if you are a fan of oldies radio, it's been a year since "The Sound" pulled the plug. I remember the last day of "The Sound" when it came on at 9 AM in the east coast, and signed off at 4 PM in the afternoon on the east. I remember the last song on "The Sound" was selections from side 2 of "Abbey Road" by the Beatles, and next year will be the 50th anniversary of the Beatles "Abbey Road", the best album ever made. If you are in to some classic rock if you are in the LA area, I recommend, WGNY-FM's "Fox Oldies". It's in the Hudson Valley area in New York, and I hope LA listeners would like to check them out. I have to link to listen to "Fox Oldies". wgny.tunegenie.com It has a playlist of songs included, along with a mixed of classic rock songs that they usually played on 100.3 "The Sound" is on there. I also prefer WROW's "Magic 590/100.5", because it's an oldies station than WGNY did, but they don't play classic rock, they play mostly oldies, MOR, and a mix of 70's and 80's hits that you hear on classic hits stations. I do have to agree on that. BTW, Ellis Feaster has airchecks from the last day of 100.3 "The Sound" is posted on his channel.

[@joeblow8593]

Out here in the Midwest there seems to be quite a bit of K-Love LPFM stations on both the commercial and non commercial FM band. In addition we have several full powered Christian stations as well. I suspect your Christian Rock station would do really well in Southern U.S. or otherwise known as the proverbial "Bible Belt" states.

[@bigsky1970]

K-Love is nothing more than satellite delivered canned radio. The K-Love in LA is playing the same thing as the K-Love's everywhere else.

[@jcurnutte2007]

KKGO is THE ONLY locally owned and operated station left in the LA market (K-Surf 1260 too) at least as far as the larger stations are concerned

[@Musicradio77Network]

John Curnutte "K-Surf" is the same station that WGNY and WROW did. The only show I listened to on late Saturday night is "Disco Saturday Night". It's on at 10 PM Saturday night until 3 AM early Sunday morning following Wolfman Jack.

[@pcno2832]

Driving through Pennsylvania with the radio scanning, I've stumbled on a few of these "Christian Rock" tracks that were worth hearing; I don't avoid them anymore than I'd avoid "Isn't Life Strange" by the Moody Blues or "Waiting on You All" by George Harrison. But religion is not my cup of tea and even if it were, listening to softish-rock with more-or-less the same "testimonial" message all day would get old. But where there is an audience, this will find it. I'm more inclined to rant about talk, news and sports radio taking up the limited space on the FM dial for no reason. If people can't listen to that stuff on AM, either the FM band should be doubled (how about folding the Armstrong band into it for a 44-108 range) or we should just switch over to HD.

[@jasonthejawman5442]

K-Love. Educational Media Foundation. Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit organization that operates radio networks broadcasting contemporary Christian music, including Air1 and K-Love. EMF is based in Rocklin, California, a suburb of Sacramento, California.

[@Sandwiches2713]

Hey @shango066 I found a pretty rare crt tv in a small store that sells a lot of old music and tech, it was a samsung celebrity model TC9140M. I found one on ebay selling for almost $200, but the one I found in the store only cost $30. I looked it over and it was in a great cosmetic condition, remarkably clean aside for some dust (it had been there for a while). I asked the store owner to plug it in and turn it on, and it worked perfectly, aside for not having an antenna. Do you think it's a worthy investment for my money? I really like the little thing and I want it to have a good home. Let me know if you think I should adopt it.

[@ssboot5663]

Just tune it to something else and let it go....No wories that way.Probably better than hearing all the political adds we have right now though,LOL! You are an amazingly tallented repair guy!

[@rkmklz7562]

L A stations were good in the 1960s and 1970s....KHJ. KRTH. KRLA.....KIQQ....KJOI....KNOB . from Long Beach.....KBIG from Avalon.... just to name a few....it was a lot of good times back than

[@call5sam]

How do you find the technical specifications for the two IF cans 28-1-574-58? I have a number of these types of cans and have not been able to find ANY specs on them anywhere.

[@NorthRiverTV]

EMF, which owns 100.3 K-Love & 91.9 Air-1 in Los Angeles is the largest owner operator of non-commercial stations in the nation. They could care less about how they rate in the Neilsens, since they are listener supported. In many of their markets, K-Love doesnt rate well. Trust me, if Entercom didnt have to divest the 100.3 signal when they merged with CBS Radio, they would most certainly have held on to it. A full power signal in market #2, you dont just give it up on a whim. Thank the FCC's ownership caps for that.

[@Musicradio77Network]

And now, EMF now owns WPLJ in New York City when it took over from Cumulus as of last night. They are now listener’s supported rather than local radio. WPLJ ran its course after 48 years on the air when it was on 95.5 FM back in 1971. Another legendary radio station is gone forever.

[@metalmoto]

I have this same FM only unit in my collection, except it has an amplifier and built in speaker.

[@justincase3880]

I got to do a phone system upgrade at an iHeart radio studio in Waco, TX. All but one of the 10 studios were unmanned/automated …

[@justsumguy2u]

The main market for that tuner was home users who had a nice radio, and didn't want to replace it with one that had built-in FM---same market that bought the stand-alone RCA 45 players. Christian rock is not soothing to me, it makes me angry

[@jefferyb304]

Nelson has stopped rating radio stations near where I live (Beckley, WV) according to Inside Radio. I prefer my MP3's in the car. A local FM station came on a frequency in my area and knocked a long distant favorite almost unlistenable.

[@tylerrip11]

Hey Shango how do you have such a magic touch when it comes to tube radio and tube TV repair? I just picked up a GE Ultravision 21c141 and it looks like such a daunting repair. From the TV Timer clock to the array or spaghetti wire and tubes.

[@FoxeemaTV]

i dont listen to radio anymore i am north of Toronto Ontario canada its same here . i got fm transmitters for my cars and one at home play my old music ...

[@reginaldlawrence412]

Christian rock sucks I love your rant videos.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Me too! This is why WPLJ in New York City is going to Christian Rock this Friday.

[@nathanrileyjones]

living. for. this.

[@briang.7206]

KBIG the reason its no.1 is so many companies probably play it in the background for their employees.

[@damianred2003]

wow 2 videos in one day. that's good news. Thanks shango

[@loweyesah]

I listen to 100.3. It has some catchy tunes.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Remember you rant about a Christian Rock station that took away classic rock? Look what happened this week, WPLJ is going Christian Rock in NYC this Friday. That means no more music on WPLJ after 48 years. WPLJ has been a legendary iconic radio when it was on 95.5 FM in New York City since 1971 when it was a rock station, and then a Top 40 station in the early 1980’s, and a Hot AC station in the 1990’s. Say goodbye to that legendary NYC station. I hope the new ratings for WPLJ’s new format will be the same as it was before according to the Nielsen Audio ratings. No more music on WPLJ this Friday. I have the airchecks of all of the stations from WGNY-FM, WROW, WLNG, WALL, WKNY, WBPM and others in my collection (along with my favorite DJ’s) as of this past weekend, and they are all unscoped, but it has music from the glory days of WPLJ as a heartfelt tribute to an wonderful iconic radio station. I hope this weekend right after sign-off, I will record more tributes to WPLJ as part of the weekend. More to come! RIP: WPLJ (1971-2019) 😢

[@shango066]

I can't see there being a big Market for that type of programming in New York City either. You should post this comment on that video It's called something like 100.3 The Sound in the video title.

[@NickG123]

This is exactly what happened to 95.5 wplj Long Island last year, now its a klove too! ):

[@tedbell4416]

Could you talk also sometime about the never ending fake sweepstakes and contests these slimy stations run non stop.

[@zaxtor]

Iheartradio plagued my favorite radio station too. Chom FM still plays good music. Their website often acts soo glitchy.

[@josephsirois2353]

Christian rock would sound much better buried deeply beneath the deafening hum!would be cool if it were an fm stereo tuner

[@orange70383]

Tune in NPR all day long.

[@rmx77]

in the seattle area there were lots of cbs owned stations that got sold out to entercom. there is at least for what i know a few that arent entercom or iheart. the only iheart station i know for sure of is a smooth jazz station that doesnt have any on air dj at all. all they play on that station is music, some commercials and a bumper that says smooth jazz on 102 9 and from time to time they give the call letters. smooth jazz is a big thing in seattle and lots of people were in uproar when the only smooth jazz station left seattle in 2010. the problem that the station created was the audience the advertising was for and the listeners werent what they wanted. they wanted a more younger crowd for their advertising but yet got older people listening so it came down to changing the stations format and the station flipped formats 3 times since they dropped smooth jazz. as of now that defunct smooth jazz station is a country station. the country station we had ended up being flipped to soft ac. i cant really stand what is happening where formats are leaving or are being turned into computer run only stations. i want the days of actual dj's and actual on air fuck ups where a song gets misqued or u hear a skip or other live issues. its sad that dj's are going away :'( bring back old radio. oh and also 94.1 in seattle which used to be kmps is the sound which is the soft ac i mentioned

[@arthureverett8220]

I used to listen to Tom Lyekis on a Detroit fm channel and got a kick out of him. The Detroit channel is gone and no more Tom Leykis show. They did the same for most smooth jazz stations that no longer exist except for CD101.9 out of NYC I think we will eventually have to go to pay fm radio similar to Sirius XM. Most of the music on fm is garbage. I trained as a radio disc jockey back in the mid 80s. That carreer was wiped out by automation. No stations hire live DJs anymore Just talk show hosts

[@LakeNipissing]

But you still have KDAY, KRRL, KPWR, KGGI, KQIE... because LA likes BASS.

[@wyokaiju992]

Woa, that an LA staton? I got it on skip for just long enough to hear the call one day while i was DXing in rural Wyoming!

[@LakeNipissing]

Which station listed above did you receive in Wyoming? I used to frequently receive FM stations from places like Tyler, TX when I was living in south-central Manitoba, where there was essentially a wide-open FM dial. KKXL 92.9 from Grand Forks, ND was the "local" Rhythmic CHR station, and that was over 200 miles away!

[@wyokaiju992]

KRRL.

[@2davydo]

@@wyokaiju992 I can remember also remember picking KDAY 1580 up on the skip in northern CALF. years ago mid 1980s used to be old skool Rap and beat box especially on saturday nights used to play dj mix scratch turntable 3hrs 9 to 12 midnight commercial free . Was like 12 years old back then. 42 now Way before fm stations started later. i didn't think that they were still around. Memories

[@brianfletcher9774]

Don’t like LA radio stations ? Come to South Dakota...WE HAD an awesome station, KBAD 94.5. Sadly, it’s off the air. It was THE ONLY non-corporate owned Rock station. Just can’t have good radio anymore. Even KOMA 1520 was popular here. The sun went down, KOMA was on every radio when I was a kid.

[@PelDaddy]

KPCC is decent in LA. I like a little NPR now and then again.

[@charlesclark2917]

Ha ha ha, that WAS a rant :) The Wikipedia page says that Entercom had to divest that station when they merged with CBS Radio, so it's privately owned now. Is the FM callsign KMBL taken?

[@deuteronimus750]

There is one classic rock station left in Austin,Tx. ( there used to be 4) and it is formatted to a 25 song playlist looped to play over and over, and hosted by fools like L.A. LLoyd and Genie, who have very limited vocabulary skills and imagination. I'm old and spoiled by the creative AOR radio of the past.

[@mspysu79]

Neat little tuner, I do have a couple of those AA5 radios that have a phono input, always thought it was a neat little gimmick. In the Midwest Clear Channel/iHeart is the big owner group followed by Cumulus, CBS only owned a few stations and so far Entercom is leaving them alone, at least they have with KDKA for the moment.

[@cjpwolf2436]

So you mean KDKA CBS Channel 2 Pittsburgh I just think it's confusing why has a K instead of a W

[@mspysu79]

Cole Piaget, In this case, I was talking about KDKA-AM 1020, KDKA-TV is still owned by CBS. In 1920 the conventions for W and K assignments where not yet set in stone. KDKA was a Maritime station call that had been assigned to the Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing company, and just celebrated it's 98th anniversary in broadcasting this week.

[@cjpwolf2436]

I don't live in Pittsburgh I live in Upstate New York I went into Pittsburgh in early July to go to anthrocon for the first time

[@joeblow8593]

Some stations were grandfathered in before the W and K assignments like WOAI in San Antonio, WBAP in Dallas, KYW in Philadelphia, KDKA Pittsburgh etc...

[@anselb2000]

That is a nice FM tuner.

[@danilorainone406]

bring back KMET ninteyfouhseven,,this kind of tuner was tied into machine shop,retail clothing shops radio shack stores PAs

[@Musicradio77Network]

Tom Kelly I don't think KMET is coming back. Remember back in March when WLUP's legendary "The Loop" at 97.9 flipped to Christian Rock as "K-Love"? That was in Chicago when rock was huge in the Windy City.

[@matthewbestdfghy]

@@Musicradio77Network so that is why i could not pick up the loop on the radio when i was in Chicago this summer.

[@danilorainone406]

@@Musicradio77Network I don't think they'll be back either, age of change is upon us too,most of my vinyl collection can be found on you tube,& some goldies from the 40s,people from back then would be astounded at even a tiny flipphone that plugs into systems of such power they never dreamed could exist,along with HI def big screen tvs

[@danilorainone406]

@@matthewbestdfghy next trip in the citeye try 97.1 the drive Wdrv, they used to be wnib classical public station,drv does a mix of oldtime & altrock

[@rmproute66]

The current owner of 100.3 in LA, Educational Media Foundation, doesn’t care about ratings since they do not sell commercials.

[@skuula]

I'm not Christian - but I can say, when you look at the competitors in offering people a faith, and considering that many people apparently just want to believe in religion, then Christianity is one of the least harmful options for them.

[@c.brionkidder9232]

haha "least harmful." 1 still harmful and 2 still delusional nonsense

[@jameslucas6589]

The lord works in mysterious ways. Thank you lord. First of all it’s about money, so, someone got god and went all out as usual, and if they want god music they will have to pay. I agree with your assessment of garbage music on the air. Many years ago there were great stations in LA. Before Mark & Brian and the zoo crap, there was Uncle T on KMET or Tom Donahue who played amazing music. The reason, the only reason, we have classic rock is because of those stations and jocks back then. Not because of Debbie Boone, or the other crap that fills the air. Not because of the drool from the bubble gum crap from KIIS radio or any number of crap dance rap stations. I don’t know how many drugs you need to enjoy that mindless stuff, but I doubt even Brian Wilson could listen to a measure of this schmegma. LA has about 200 stations and not one decent one. Sad. Americans must be deaf.

[@OBC-radio]

They did the same thing to WLUP-FM (The Loop) here in Chicago... Not sure what’s a bigger waiste of airspace, this or all the foreign language AM stations.

[@JrGoonior]

Can I like your comment a thousand times!!!! I was going post about "The Loop" myself. Killed after 40 years, my God, has it been that long?!?! Fortunately we still have WDRV "The Drive".

[@Musicradio77Network]

And now, WPLJ is leaving the airwaves by Friday, May 31st after 48 years of playing all kinds of music from being a rock station in the 1970’s, to the rise of Top 40 in the 1980’s, and more of an AC station in the 1990’s to the end. All three formats, one station, one frequency, 95.5. Goodbye to WPLJ!

[@Martin-io4wc]

@@JrGoonior Grow up and get a life. My God!

[@Martin-io4wc]

@@Musicradio77Network Grow up and get a life!

[@kevin2960]

If you still have it would you sell it?? I have several restored 30's radios. FM would be nice.

[@culturalconfederacy782]

Corporate radio just doesn't get it. People are tired of Top 40. It sucks. As does smooth jazz (Jazzack) and NPR.

[@donh01965]

Christian radio in L.A. isn't working?????...LOL... I wish I'd of bet on their demise

[@Musicradio77Network]

Same as with New York City. I don’t listen to Christian radio in NYC, because WPLJ dumped its format after 48 years playing Rock/Top 40/Hot AC.