About Us

   About Oxford, Alabama

  Station Technical Info

Oxford, Alabama is located in Calhoun County, which is situated in the foothills of the beautiful Appalachian mountain range. Located just one hour east of Birmingham, Alabama and ninety minutes west of Atlanta, Georgia, Oxford offers a place large enough to provide every opportunity but small enough to know your neighbors. Known as the "Crossroads to the Future", Oxford has several major highways leading into it, including Interstate 20 and U.S. Highways 431, 78, and 21. The county is home to three industrial parks and more than 150 industries, but the greatest advantage is the people.

Oxford is known throughout the county as the retail capital center and has the Quintard Mall, with over 700,000 square feet. There is a wide variety of wonderful hotels that are conveniently located and many excellent restaurants for your dining pleasure.  You might want to spend an afternoon browsing through treasures of years past. Oxford is the home of three large antique stores which are located on Highway 78 East, near the I-20 188 exit.

Our city offers a wide range of recreational activities for all ages.  Bring the family out to Oxford Lake Park and enjoy the walking track around beautiful Oxford Lake while the children play at Freedom Park, which features exciting new playground equipment.  Oxford has one of the best Park and Recreation Departments and Senior Citizens Programs in the state. Those of you who enjoy golf might enjoy our beautiful and challenging Cider Ridge golf course.  Cheaha Mountain State Park is just a few short miles from Oxford, and the drive through the mountains is beautiful.

Oxford is a great place to raise a family, with many good churches, an excellent school system, and wonderful people. We would be honored to have you visit and would love to have you stay and make Oxford your home.  We believe you will find that Oxford offers something for everyone.
 

Our music scheduler is SAM Broadcaster v4.2.2 by Spacial Audio Systems LLC.  The music you hear was ripped direct from CD by Exact Audio Copy v0.95, and encoded into mp3 format at 320 kBit/s by LAME v3.97.

All our mp3 files have been adjusted by MP3Gain v1.2.5 so that they all have the same loudness without any quality loss. This way, you don't have to keep reaching for the volume dial on your audio player every time it switches to a new song.

We have chosen an Audio Science ASI5111 sound card built for broadcast.

We have selected  a DSP/Effect plugin for Winamp called ‘Sound Solution v1.31’, written by Alessandro Tomessini.  The plugin is used to make the playback volume and sound of different recordings more equal, and definitely improves our on-air sound!  Now, Internet radio stations don't have to sound like they're underwater and phasey......

It performs dynamic range compression to adapt the audio to typical listening environments like work, homes, and public places, and it ensures a consistent presentation. In radio, program material from different producers and different decades is constantly juxtaposed. Yet most successful broadcasters agree that achieving a "major market" sonic image requires an overall consistency of sound texture and spectral balance from source to source.

We also use an output plugin for Winamp called ‘Advanced Crossfading v1.75’, by SqrSoft.  This crossfader engine can analyze the sound level of our tracks and completely remove the gaps between tracks in SAM Broadcaster for a perfect mix!

Many of our promos, sweepers and liners were produced with Adobe Audition and using sound effects from RadioDaddy.

SAM Broadcaster runs on a Windows 2000 Pro computer with a genuine Intel motherboard….an S845WD, with an Intel P4  2.4 Ghz processor (no AMD or Celeron for me!) and 1GB of ram.  DSP (digital signal processing) is resource intensive and this is no place to cheap out :-)

We truly hope you enjoy your listening experience and come back often!

  About Me

 Top 10 Reasons - Why Super Country Radio?

1.  Because, while there are a number of country radio stations on the ‘net, some of them don’t play real country music.   The country music coming out of Nashville these days has strayed a long way from its cultural roots.  Pigs aren't welcome at horse shows, not because they are pigs so much as because they aren't horses.  No one is interested in holding discussions on redefining horses to include pigs, even if we had the power to enact this definition. There is already a definition that includes both horses and pigs. It's called livestock. Sorry Natalie, Emily, and Martie :-(

2.  Because I love country music and want to share that love with the world.  I want to present the most qualified work, from artists past and present, in an entertaining way.  Look back on a time when we listened to the radio for beautiful, traditional, country music. The world was safe, a friend was a friend, and life in general was great. So let me put you in the time machine and take you back to some down-to-earth, traditional country music the way we remember.

3.  Because I am a radio broadcast engineer who knows how to do more than just play music.  Programming music is as much of an art as it is a science.

4.  Because some men hunt.  Some men fish.  This is MY hobby.  My first job (in high school) was as a DJ on a 1,000 watt AM station playing country music in the early '70s.  I know my roots — the flowers of today come from seeds of yesterday! 

5.  Because there are three basic styles of current country music: Traditional, Mainstream and Contemporary (pop-country). Try looking at it like the American Political System—on the right are the Conservative Republicans (Traditional) , on the left are the Liberal Democrats (Contemporary/Pop-Country), and in the middle are the Moderates (Mainstream). Think of Alan Jackson as the George Bush of country music :-)

6.  Because I own every CD I play, and have digitized every song on my own to my very exacting standards, ensuring consistent sound quality.

7.  Because some other Internet radio stations are programmed by amateur, "this would be fun" people who, while well-meaning, end up sounding just like kids with a Casio cassette player!!!

8.  Because I know how to talk into a microphone and address an audience...not like some "DJs" who view the microphone as something that is either to be fellated or approached like their first date - not too close!

9.  Because I have a S-T-U-D-I-O where I produce the programming.  This studio consists of high-quality equipment names like Mackie, BST, and MXL.

10.  Because I know what it's like to listen to radio that sucks.