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[HCDX] Two hard rock radio stations reviewed in local FM with UPDATE
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You surely know my interest in Malaysian music. But you possibly don?t kow that
on 80s I was a fan of hard music .
How I got contained with hard rock is here out of the question but I will just a
little history of rock music stations Thessaloniki in only one paragraph. .
The first radio station in town is Rock Radio on 104.7 mHz from ?Joe Joe?
Vaccaros. This station started in mid 90s with light and easy rocks Later near
to the end of 90s 1055 rock has been started on the freq of 105.5 MHz . Tha later
station is located opposite to FM 100 same street with ERA 958 (close to the
International Trade fair)
Since last year 1055 added a ?wild? brother on 106.5 under the name ?Extreme?
or ?1055 Extreme Edition? . This station airs only hard core music such as heavy
metal hard rock , gothic death speed thrash symphonic etc
This year with the closure of Mythos FM 93.4 on Feb 13 a rock bar named Woodstock
Bar, in the western part of the city?s centre , took the facilities of Mythos
(including their live stream more recently ) and refurbished it under the name
ProckA FM (proka means big nail notice the capitals !). The new station includes
many kinds of the rock scene as old hard rocks , heavy metal , etc but still is
lighter than Xtreme .
Below you will read a lot of fun due to the amateurish technical approach of both
stations together with program updates
Extreme in its start was with a very bad and muddy audio (read: equalization curve )
comparing to its brother 1055 and for a very lengthy time
This April ProckA was still experimenting with their audio fidelity and modulation .
Their volume was very low (more than 15 db sometimes comparing to other stations )
and very very trebly . And also during May /June they had connection problems
(namely loss of a channel !!)
On May Extreme separated from ProckA due to their thrash program and added punk
rock and some Greek alternative rocks and metals . But also Extreme had problems
in their transmissions . First with some gaps in their playbacks up to 1 minute
(!!) in June ? July And on mid August changing to monophonic audio . That means for
me as ?killing? their music
And another funny now with ProckA FM. As noticed above ProckA is held by a bar and
located inside this bar. Visiting them mid August on the noon I found the bar
closed, As a neighbor told me the bar opens on evenings / nights . That means
ProckA uses play list most of the day Found that there is live program everyday
after 2000 till 0100 or 0200 .
Procka meanwhile , was very fast on May top respond to messages . IN just 2
minutes they could reply . BUt more recently they could respond to music requests
very late. I have two examples . The first on the start of September was 45 minutes
after the call (requested a song from their advert )and the second never (a song from
two groups that possibly they dont have as KIz and Great Kat)!
and the audio gaps in ProckA still continue . The bronlem seems tobe mainly from
their computers ...
As for Xtreme it is sure they do play listing
Both stations during late nights (as eg after 00 or 01 ) calm their music . ProckA
plays classical rocks and ballads while Xtreme plays hard rocks or hard ballads
Advertising in both stations is minimal
ProckA has about 6 adverts played in between 2-3 songs which is for me quite
annoying. Two self adverts and two adverts for the bar.
Extreme has only 4-5 adverts played on 30 min intervals. One of them is the
craziest advert heard ever. There are two short ID s (ca 5 secs ) played between 1-2
songs
MY verdict : ProckA gets a higher rate than Xtreme 7.5 vs 5 for two reasons :
The later killed stereophony and plays sometimes too hard music (thrash gothic )
that gets me quite tired but ?.not always! I can add a third reason as in my
house its signal is low and has strong QRM from the western part of the city.
ProckA can be heard in the intenet via this link
http://184.154.202.243:8042/listen.pls
(the stream from Mythos FM )
There is also a web page (only for sending messages ) and a page in Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Procka-FM-934/119475064898190?ref=br_tf
Unfortunately Extreme has not a stream.
Unfortunate update: Since 17th of November ProckA has been replaced by the
Synaspismos (left party) station ?IN red? with mostly political content. But ProckA
continues to transmit via internet only in the above link
my radio shack: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/zliangas/album/282394
http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak (all my pages )
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