Chip Franklin comes up short in the Breakfast Binge

Morning mouth couldn’t shovel it all in.

Chip Franklin was denied last Friday in his quest to consume 4,000 kilocalories at the KOGO studios. Cliff Albert writes about Chip’s quest: “He didn’t make it..could not handle all of it..was ready explode after about 2,000 calories.”

Chip wanted to eat like Olympic super star, Michael Phelps.

As the food settled down during the morning broadcast at KOGO, Chip “went golfing after the show to work it off!” Cliff adds.

Pictured are some of the dishes that awaited Chip — the tasty bytes of headphones/radio desert were not included in the breakfast quest.

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Leo Laporte, heard on KOGO Sunday afternoon, talked about the digital broadcast future. While the cut off date for analog television is early next year, he also indicated that it is a matter of time before AM and FM face the same future: analog will be out, and pure digital will be in. He predicts that shortly HDRadio will come down in price and the availability of radios will be more common.

In a related note, the company behind the standard for HDRadio is pushing to have a power increase on the FM side. Currently, the HDRadio broadcasts are about ten percent of the present effective radiated power (ERP). For example, Star 94.1’s HDRadio broadcast is about 10,000 watts. So the reach and depth of reception is limited. The FCC has been asked to permit broadcasters to raise the HDRadio broadcast power levels.

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