WTMJ Audio Problems Tonight - 9/20/06

[SRW1000]

My wife and I tried to watch Kidnapped tonight, but ended up having to switch to the analog channel.

The rear channels sounded like they were overloaded - lots of pops, clicking, distortion, etc.  The center channel seemed to almost disappear.

Anyone else notice this?

Scott

[Mark Strube]

Same thing here... absolutely horrible. Unwatchable. My speakers sound like they're ready to explode.

There's a re-airing Saturday night at 9pm. Hopefully they'll have this problem fixed by then.

[AndrewP]

I was thinking that my new Toslin switcher did not work. Glad it is not the case. What a horrible audio. I just turned off rear speakers and watched it with stereo.

[GBK]

Continues to happen on my end today as well looks like the tech's at TMJ are not doing their jobs... wish I had a job where I could just show up and do nothing at all.

[Mark Strube]

I just watched The Office... it was listenable this time, but there were still annoying cracks in the sound.

[GBK]

try ER is completely unbearable

[LoadStar]

Has anyone called WTMJ?

[kermtfrg]

At least the commercials sound good..... :bang:

[LoadStar]

Hmm. Sound so far seems better. They apparently had to blow off two :30 spots to get it working though, which is bound to annoy some advertisers.

Edit: nope. Still crackly. So they blew off two :30 spots for nothing.

[SRW1000]

I just watched The Office... it was listenable this time, but there were still annoying cracks in the sound.

I noticed the same thing.  I hope they fix this soon.

Scott

[jd91]

Told my wife that the first thing I was going to do was check this forum after an unwatchable ER... couldn't switch to analog as we had DVR'd it.  That was horrible.

On a separate note... is the "new post" ticker working for everyone?  For some reason tonight I don't get the pop up box anymore showing the latest posts.  It worked for me just a couple days ago... and no, I don't have a popup blocker on.

Thanks

[msofan]

Now NBC has more reason to be in last place. ER was just horrible. Couldn't understand most of the dialog. Did eventually switch to analog.  :bang:

[oflaherty]

I don't have any answer yet to our audio problem.

I still have not heard back from engineering on the problem earlier this week with "Kidnapped."

Tonight I was in master control during "ER" for a different problem (Comast lost the SD feed in Oconomowoc.)  I know master was not aware on the 5.1 audio problem.

On the AVS forum no one else mentioned any problem with ER, so it was just a Milwaukee issue.

Call me directly (414) 967-5398 or the assignment desk (414) 963-4444 if problems are not getting fixed. I can't guarantee results, but we can at least try to fix the problem.
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-Sean at TMJ

[hormy_83]

I also noticed on 'My Name is Earl' last night - all the music and stuff was way louder than the dialog.  It was hard to hear what was going on most of the time as I had to have it turned way up to hear the dialog - then when background music or something would come on it would blow me out of my chair...

And I also noticed the crackling in 'The Office'.  And both of these were just through the speakers on my TV.

[GBK]

I don't have any answer yet to our audio problem.

I still have not heard back from engineering on the problem earlier this week with "Kidnapped."

Tonight I was in master control during "ER" for a different problem (Comast lost the SD feed in Oconomowoc.)  I know master was not aware on the 5.1 audio problem.

On the AVS forum no one else mentioned any problem with ER, so it was just a Milwaukee issue.

Call me directly (414) 967-5398 or the assignment desk (414) 963-4444 if problems are not getting fixed. I can't guarantee results, but we can at least try to fix the problem.
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-Sean at TMJ

Thanks Sean we may gripe a lot here about these issues but at least we know YOU got our back.  :wave: