Category Archives: About the Guide

Need Music help

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Specifically, the tool used to presort a radio station into a likely category – I’m looking for both positive and negative words and phrases appearing on a web page that would make it extremely likely that the station belongs to … Continue reading →

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Indecision

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Fred Stiening
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Realignment of religious programming

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The programming format/category “religious programming” is a bit muddled at the moment – the fairly distinct music formats – gospel, Contemporary Christian and Christian Rock were fairly obvious – and I’ve grouped the Christian sects who have a large radio … Continue reading →

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Summarizing

Posted on September 1, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The Station Counts by format page now has an option to summarize station counts – now that there are over 100 “formats”, the listing was getting tedious The “no category” category currently includes “Local Full Service”. Do you think they … Continue reading →

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New testing platform taking shape

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The new method of testing completely shields you from bad stuff unless you make a deliberate choice to be unprotected Let’s say you decided to be in charge of “Full Service” radio stations – stations (mostly AM) that don’t carry … Continue reading →

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Tunein goes Premium

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Tunein introduced a new paid subscription service. The main feature is 600 channels will be available without commercials, with carefully selected filler music covering the commercial breaks, along with Baseball. http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/25/tunein-launches-tunein-premium-with-ad-free-radio-audiobooks-mlb-games/ Tunein is a much bigger deal than SRGuide is … Continue reading →

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Translator Overhaul

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Fred Stiening

FM translators have become really big business – because the rules are relaxed for non-commercial licensees, it is fairly easy for them to relocate a translator as long as it doesn’t interfere with an existing station. In a major market, … Continue reading →

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FCC computer systems held hostage!

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The FCC’s computer systems will be down for almost a week – probably related to implementing the FCC’s move of their systems “to the cloud” in the Robert Byrd Confederate memorial data center in West Virginia. The systems will be … Continue reading →

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What would you like to know?

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The page to describe a radio station isn’t currently very interesting nor very visible in Google. I’m mostly asking for opinions of people who don’t work in radio and have no idea what HAAT means. So let’s say you arrived … Continue reading →

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Zombie watch in Lakeland Florida

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Fred Stiening

WWAB-AM slipped off the Internet – It’s an AM radio station in Lakeland Florida playing Gospel Music. The owner died earlier this year, but the story takes an unexpected twist. legacy of Richard Hughes Richard Hughes lived to age 87, … Continue reading →

Posted in Talk Radio, Unique Stations, Zombie Watch | 1 Comment