Category Archives: About the Guide

WMEX-AM sells for $165,000

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The temporary Boston home of Howie Carr and the station that turned down Rush Limbaugh four times has just been sold. The station was previously owned by Microsoft’s Paul Allen and was bought for around $10 million. Out in California, … Continue reading →

Posted in Station Sales / Transfers, Zombie Watch | 2 Comments

Welcome to the “new” StreamingRadioGuide.com

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Actually not much has changed. linode.com moved the server from Xen to KVM per my request. If you don’t know what that means, you don’t need to know. The DNS for the domain is currently provided by a company in … Continue reading →

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Government “Licensing” of web sites

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Fred Stiening

I’ve hinted in the past this is coming. It’s only one step away. At the request of law enforcement, ICANN is requiring domain registrars to verify the accuracy of the information contained in the “Whois” information about all web sites. … Continue reading →

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Travis LeBlanc – a person you want to know

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Travis LeBlanc is the head of the FCC Enforcement Bureau. Tom Wheeler put him in that position. He’s clearly an Obama technocrat. http://www.marcus-spectrum.com/Blog/files/LeBlanc314.html I see big changes already, and they are positive. As I’m going through the list, it is … Continue reading →

Posted in The FCC, Zombie Watch | 7 Comments

Proof

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Fred Stiening
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Fedora today, Ubuntu tomorrow

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Fred Stiening

I’ve had it. Fedora can rot in hell. For the second time, trying to upgrade Fedora using the aptly named Fedup, the “You must update every 6 months” once again gave me an unbootable system (the test system) Ubuntu promises … Continue reading →

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Testing groups

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Fred Stiening

For the dozens of you czars doing testing, time management can become an issue – along with boredom. In the upper left hand corner is a filter to select subgroups of stations. Most are only useful if you are a … Continue reading →

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Hunting Wabbits

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Even if you aren’t interested in volunteering, there is something you can do. There are about 750 stations that have so little information about them – no web page, no Facebook, no mention in a local newspaper, contact address is … Continue reading →

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This blog needs a new name

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Not saying I will change it, but I think I may have finished Starting Over. One possibility is “The Hamster Wheel”. The Hamster doesn’t care he isn’t moving, as long as he has something to do to pass the time. … Continue reading →

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Bleep me

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Fred Stiening
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