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For some reason, both of our radios were getting poor reception of 107.7, so the switch was made to 88.1 (WBGU). I could be negatively critical of the coverage, but I'll decline the opportunity.

I got to listen to the game for a little bit...sounded alright, I guess...I was a little disappointed to not hear Mike Castellano chip in very much...would've liked the student perspective...maybe I didn't get to listen to enough of the game...was Mike doing much?

107.7 is still on a back up transmitter...after 2 weeks. It's only running at 80% power. Hopefully, it'll be fixed soon.

bgbill wrote:For some reason, both of our radios were getting poor reception of 107.7, so the switch was made to 88.1 (WBGU). I could be negatively critical of the coverage, but I'll decline the opportunity.

Was in the stands and didn't hear the game, but I still have no choice but to defend student radio:

Preparing to call a football game is the most time consuming and difficult thing to do in the business. (Besides looking for a job.) You have 22 guys to keep track of at all times. There are two-deeps you have to pour over. And then all of a sudden a player pops in that's not on the two-deep, and you better be on top of it. Coaches mess around and change kick returners all the time. There are media notes to read, press conferences to go to between classes. You're far away, it's hard to see. (Especially orange numbers on white). Then you have to badger the opponent's SID, so you call, email, call back and hopefully you get the interview with the opponent's coach by Friday. Preparing to broadcast a football game begins on Monday, and ends about 10 seconds before kickoff. Any broadcaster will tell you, calling a football game is mentally and physically exhausting.

Point is, WBGU is 100% student run. So take everything above, and add it in with a full course load, and all the other time commitments that come with being a full-time student. Some broadcasts on WBGU are better than others, but none are bad. It's like pizza, just varying degrees of good. All the students at WBGU put a ton of effort in to be as professional as they can. That, and every position is volunteer. Todd Walker is a great broadcaster that I always enjoy hearing, but WBGU does a great job as well.

NY-BG-FAN wrote:

bgbill wrote:For some reason, both of our radios were getting poor reception of 107.7, so the switch was made to 88.1 (WBGU). I could be negatively critical of the coverage, but I'll decline the opportunity.

Was in the stands and didn't hear the game, but I still have no choice but to defend student radio:

Preparing to call a football game is the most time consuming and difficult thing to do in the business. (Besides looking for a job.) You have 22 guys to keep track of at all times. There are two-deeps you have to pour over. And then all of a sudden a player pops in that's not on the two-deep, and you better be on top of it. Coaches mess around and change kick returners all the time. There are media notes to read, press conferences to go to between classes. You're far away, it's hard to see. (Especially orange numbers on white). Then you have to badger the opponent's SID, so you call, email, call back and hopefully you get the interview with the opponent's coach by Friday. Preparing to broadcast a football game begins on Monday, and ends about 10 seconds before kickoff. Any broadcaster will tell you, calling a football game is mentally and physically exhausting.

Point is, WBGU is 100% student run. So take everything above, and add it in with a full course load, and all the other time commitments that come with being a full-time student. Some broadcasts on WBGU are better than others, but none are bad. It's like pizza, just varying degrees of good. All the students at WBGU put a ton of effort in to be as professional as they can. That, and every position is volunteer. Todd Walker is a great broadcaster that I always enjoy hearing, but WBGU does a great job as well.

+1. Until someone's had to prepare for a broadcast and had to put up with all the difficulties of being a student trying to get all the information, you have no idea what goes into a broadcast. People really don't understand how big it is to have the student organization on campus. Without it, you don't get Women's Basketball, Hockey, Baseball and Softball games on the radio.

I'm strongly censoring myself, because frankly I get pretty pissed off when people take swipes at BGRSO and all the work they do. It's a constant uphill battle where they don't get a lot of help from those who are higher up.

FWIW,
I couldn't get a clear sound on my headphones of 107 either...either last week or this week...in fact, last week I couldn't get them at all. I thought the kids did an OK job on the game last week...found myself not listening as much this week as I was explaining things to my granddaughter a lot...and enjoying the game itself a bit more.

Our BG RSO kids do a wonderful job. Admittedly, I have been guilty of complaining about stupid little things like the lack of score updates at points in the past, but once I force myself to think about it for about five seconds I understand that these kids are doing the absolute best that they can while also being students. Something that I think everyone needs to bear in mind is that none of us performed to our true potential in any situation in college. Being an undergraduate student simply spreads your time too thin.

I am truly very thankful for all of the hard work that these ladies and gentlemen put in every year, especially when it comes basketball and hockey season.

As long as they can pronounce all our guys' names correctly, I'm pretty happy.

Sadly, this hasn't always been the case. Usually pretty good though, given everything that was listed above.

Is there an up-to-date affiliate list somewhere? All i can seem to find is the 2006 list, and most of them pre-empt for the bucknuts.

dstubb wrote:Is there an up-to-date affiliate list somewhere? All i can seem to find is the 2006 list, and most of them pre-empt for the bucknuts.

Per the magnetic schedule on my fridge:

107.7 BG and Findlay
1230 Toledo
1280 Defiance
107.5 Lima
1230 Columbus
1420 Cleveland
1220 Cleveland
1350 and 96.7 Celina