[BC] Neural/Omnia/etc.

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Other than the just AWFUL fake stereo when BTSC was adopted (and the  
automatic switching from real stereo to comb "stereo"), I don't think  
TV audio has slipped.  Sure, there have been some pretty badly failed  
experiments with multi-channel sound, but most isn't that bad.

Other than the crowd being too loud some of the time, I didn't hear  
much wrong with the Super Bowl, but I maybe watched 15 minutes  
total.  The sideline mics really add to the pain.

Radio, on the other hand, has really let the quality of the audio go  
to crap.  I cannot believe entire programs are done via a cell-phone  
to a dial up coupler!  Entire sports broadcasts are done that way in  
DC, and some state they are, "The WHATEVER Sports Network."

I find it amazing that remote broadcasts are done via cell phone when  
a wireline phone is available just feet away.  Sure, that still  
sucks, but not nearly as badly.  I once asked a promotions department  
person why she was doing the drops via her cell, instead of the RPU  
in the van.  It was just too much trouble to plug in the mic!   
Needless to say, the jerk from corporate was sitting in the (idiot)  
GM's office the next day!

Then there are the STLs of today.  I cannot believe what is being used.

Fortunately for me, I have never been forced to make those kinds of  
quality compromises -- not that we haven't beat the heck out of the  
pristine audio once it hits the processing, but that is another  
discussion.

On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:01 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 27
> From: WBRadiolists at aol.com
> [...]
> Normally, I tolerate "less-than-stellar" sound from the Idiot Box,  
> as that is
> what I am used to getting, and thus, what I expect from the thing.  
> Sad, but
> true.
> [...]
> Willie...