Clear channel Puns

Lately I’ve noticed some channels have gotten more scratchy and harder to hear. What are your favorites that balance clarity with traffic volume?

So I’m trying out fubo as s result of the YTTV Disney situation, and I’m liking it so far, but something I’m having trouble figuring out is, if I’m watching a channel, then start browsing around in the guide or the movie list or some other menu, how do you quickly just clear that all away to go back to the show that you’re watching full screen? If I keep hitting the back button on the AppleTV remote it doesn’t clear the guide away for example, it just sends me back to the AppleTV Home Screen. In YTTV from pretty much any menu you could keep hitting up and then click on the name of the program you’re watching. In fubo it seems like you have to go and find the program that you’re watching again and click on it?

Hello,

Sorry if this isn't in the right place. This question is geared most specifically to people who have worked with CCB/IHeartMedia, but anyone in the radio broadcasting industry would probably have great insight. My father worked at several different CCB locations in the late 90's/early 2000's and mentioned to me that each CCB location was "closely monitored by some government agency" that had remote access to a kill switch that could cease all transmission from the station at will. When I Google this, I found an FFC license document for CCB detailing protocol for stations that have "received a Notice of Apparently Liability" which subject broadcasts to a delay of up to 5 minutes so that FCC monitors may cease transmission in case of content violations. (Link to doc: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-04-128A1.pdf). The wording seems to specify that this protocol applies to EMPLOYEES (i.e. DJs, hosts) who have committed content violations in their segments, as it also outlines how such employees would be reprimanded and the protocol would only be put in place if and when the employee is on air again.

My father also mentioned that if the signal/link(?) to the kill box and the monitor was interrupted for whatever reason, even when "robot DJs" were playing, the employees at the station would receive a call within minutes to re-establish the connection.

My confusion lies in that my father says this was the case at every station and the kill box was monitored constantly (hence the calls "within minutes" if the connection was ever interrupted and not segment/employee/station-specific.

Is it possible that all of the stations in that region (he was in the West U.S.) had received these Notice of Apparent Liability and they were implemented thoroughly despite the document wording? Or is there something I'm missing about how radio broadcasts are monitored?

Thanks!

This is in a 2019 Nissan Frontier. I primarily listen to 4 main channels: Lithium, Liquid Metal, Ozzy’s Boneyard, and Turbo.

Sometime in August I noticed that LM and Turbo would cut out every couple seconds, but Lithium and Boneyard would be fine. I started checking some other channels and noticed the same issue, but only with random channels. Every other two or three channels would keep cutting out, but the others would be good, even when just sitting parked.

Was thinking the issue would resolve itself, but it’s definitely not going away. I can’t imagine it’d be an antenna issue when half of the channels work perfect. The weather doesn’t seem to matter; it happens when it’s raining, cloudy, or sunny.

Any ideas?

I'm subscribed to a few gaming LFG channels, and while I want notifications, if they're older than an hour (sometimes much less than that), they're effectively useless. Unfortunately, the notification icon persists despite the age.

Is there a configurable way to clear notifications older than 1 hour from these channels?

Once again Hilary implying she's Spanish... The audacity to say "I nEvEr SaId I WaS SpAnIsh"

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