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• Groveland:
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• Haverhill: Channel 22
• Methuen, Channels 8 + 22 (Comcast) &
32 (Verizon Fios)
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Sandown, Channel 17
A special
thanks to the boards, management, staffs and members of the public
access television stations above for bringing WHAV to those without
Internet access! If you would like to hear WHAV on your cable
television system, call your cable company or public access station.
For more information, call (978) 374-2111.
Radio
(WHAV)
Tune to
1640 on your AM radio in select areas.
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Phone
Go to www.WHAV.mobi
and listen
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information Click Here.
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Tony
Seton Commentary
Author,
producer and news anchor Tony Seton provides his take on current events
in a daily, two-minute commentary. Seton is a veteran broadcast
journalist who covered Watergate, eight elections, five space shots and
produced Barbara Walters’ news interviews. He also won several national
awards for his production of ABC’s business-economics news..
WHAV
Mon.–Fri., 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. (following News)
Open
Mike Show
with Host Jack Bevelaqua
Sponsored,
in part, by Merrimack Valley Magazine
Jack
Bevelaqua hosts the popular Open Mike Show. The two-hour
program presents timely guests and gives area residents a chance to
call and discuss issues of concern. Viewers of HCTV Channel 22,
Haverhill, also have an opportunity to watch the program live from
WHAV’s Ward Hill studios.
WHAV
Mon.,
6:30 p.m. (repeated Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.)
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CBS
anchor Walter L. Cronkite, who died Friday, has been heard recently on
WHAV’s retromercials for “Answer Please,” a 1958 radio feature.
It’s
True...AM Radio Once Sounded Great
At WHAV, the
Legacy Broadcast Medium Still Does
Before you dismiss those “old timers” who
claim AM radio used to sound better than it does today, consider this: it’s true…and can
be true again.
The
sound quality of the oldest method of broadcasting is surprisingly
nearly full fidelity leaving the transmitter. To the contrary, many of
today’s receivers poorly reproduce AM audio. Years ago, manufacturers
gradually reduced the bandwidth – and therefore the fidelity – of AM
radios. This is why some old radios seem to sound better. The intent
was to reduce interference between stations as more broadcasters
crowded the dial, fought “loudness wars” with one another and –
oversimplifying – used more than their allotted space on the dial.
Radio station owners believed listeners would tune in to louder
stations. In addition, the nature of AM – amplitude modulation – means
louder stations transmit further.
“WHAV carefully balanced
these technical considerations last year when it placed its upgraded AM
operation on the air at 1640,” says Tim Coco, WHAV president and
general manager. “WHAV’s brand new AM facilities transmit higher
fidelity sound while taking advantage of the best part of the loudness
wars to achieve greater range,” he explains (see related box below).
“In this day and
age, the vast majority of WHAV listeners prefer the station’s free
CD-quality digital offerings worldwide at www.WHAV.net, on seven cable
television systems and, for portability, on cell phones at
www.WHAV.mobi. For
those, however, who enjoy “DXing” (distance listening) by AM radio,
WHAV’s AM station fits the bill,” says Coco.
Technical Advances Bolster WHAV’s
Signal
The
new WHAV operations would not have been possible absent a few
logistical and technical developments. A decision during the 1990s by
the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand the AM radio band
from 1605 to 1705 kHz helped solved the problem of too many stations
crowding the dial. An industry trade group, The National Radio Systems
Committee (NRSC), also created new broadcasting and receiving standards
called “AMAX certification.”
AMAX certification requires AM receivers to return to wide bandwidth
reception as broadcasters limit the amount of space they occupy on the
dial, allow tuning the expanded AM band and use “noise blanking,” among
other improvements.
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For
those interested in the technical details…WHAV uses the latest
multiband processing to increase the volume of its audio
without introducing distortion, takes advantage of asymmetrical
modulation to favor its signal’s positive peaks which improves
transmission distance and
utilizes a FCC type-accepted Rangemaster transmitter.
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Unfortunately,
however, only a few manufacturers (such as the RCA
RP7887 AM/FM Super Portable Radio) have
produced improved “wideband” radios. This may be because,
while the FCC
adopted the NRSC standards, the federal agency has little credibility
with receiver manufacturers and others because of two major mistakes –
AM stereo and “in-band, on-channel” (IBOC) digital transmission.
During
the early 1980s, the FCC decided to take a “let the marketplace decide”
approach to introducing AM stereo. Four competing – and incompatible –
systems were launched. Few manufacturers wanted to risk making
receivers that might become obsolete and few listeners wanted to buy
for the same reason. By the time Motorola’s C-QUAM AM stereo system
emerged victorious, few were still making the equipment.
But, FCC Bows to
Special Interests, Slowing Progress
Completely
opposite, the FCC during this decade chose a new digital standard for
AM radio called IBOC that cuts sound quality in half on existing AM
radios, greatly increases interference between stations and creates a
choppy and unusable digital signal for the very few digital radios
consumers have purchased. Many broadcasters have refused to adopt IBOC
since, for the first time, the FCC imposed onerous licensing conditions
that send listeners’ and broadcasters’ dollars to IBOC’s creator,
iBiquity Digital Corporation.
If you’re feeling nostalgic, try
tuning in WHAV’s AM signal at 1640. Better yet, try listening on an
AMAX certified radio. Otherwise, CD quality sound is still available at
www.WHAV.net.
Barbara
Walters’ Producer Tony Seton to Speak in Haverhill September 21
Event Schedule
Monday, July 20:
Michael
Gerardi, owner of Mountain Dogs Alpine Outfitters, Plaistow N.H., is
Jack Bevelaqua’s guest on the Open Mike Show, 6:30 p.m.
Monday,
Sept. 21: Save
the date! Tony Seton, Barbara Walters’ and ABC-TV senior
producer, kicks off WHAV’s distinguished speaker series. Seton, whose
“SetonnoteS” commentary airs daily on WHAV, covered five space
missions,
six elections and Watergate, among other news events.
To Be
Announced: Dedication of the “Edwin V. Johnson Newsroom”
at WHAV. Johnson joined WHAV in 1951, beginning what would be a 34-year
career with the station.
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