What you are saying makes little sense. This has nothing to do with a "long chain of audio" processors. This has to do with the volume of the original program source. Just as I adjust the volume control when I change stations, watch a different video or put in a different CD, the volume of any source material from the broadcasting station could be changed between materials.
Everything else you said was based on unfounded speculation.
-- Rick C
Well, you're partly correct. It's been a long time since I had much to do with broadcasting and that was with AM and FM stations, not TV. I am very much out of date on station operation procedures and technology. However, you weren't getting any answers to your complaint from the perspective of the TV station, so I thought I might give it a try. I guess that wasn't adequate. If you want an authoritative answer to your complaint, there should be some forums and newsgroups related to broadcast TV. Your local TV station may also operate an online forum. Or, you can call the station again and continue to pursue the matter.
In my college days, working part time at a local FM station, nobody was allowed to tweak anything that might get the attention of the FCC or cause complications. That was reserved for the station chief engineer (or contract engineer) who signed the logs when something was adjusted. When something went wrong, I had to wake up the chief engineer and ask him what I should do. These days, automation runs, monitors, and logs everything. It is rare that anyone is on site and able to make adjustments. If the transmitted audio was as low as you indicate for an extended period, a "dead air" alarm would have been sent.
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The annoying channel is an online feed, with the commercials & promos +20dB or more than the programs, and for three to five minute blocks. I would just use it as a reverse squelch circuit. I too have rack mounted audio processors, but who wants a relay rack in a small bedroom? Who needs a processor, when a sample & hold with a half second to one second delay to trigger the muting?
-- Never piss off an Engineer! They don't get mad. They don't get even. They go for over unity! ;-)
So true...
For onsie-twosie, take whatever is laying around the shop that can do the job the quickest and simplest way I guess.
After that "whatever" device is found, then the fun can begin !
boB
Being retired, disabled and pretty much home bound, I need projects to keep me busy on the days I feel well enough to do something.
-- Never piss off an Engineer! They don't get mad. They don't get even. They go for over unity! ;-)
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