Category Archives: About the Guide

So what genre is this?

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Fred Stiening

http://wfpk.org/search-playlists It’s a Public Radio (not NPR) station in Kentucky. It previously was listed as Jazz, but I’m pretty sure that’s wrong

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Official FCC Silent list

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Unlike criminals, radio stations do not have a right to remain silent. The FCC maintains a list of officially Silent radio stations. The editor is now able to let you quickly confirm if the station has an official permission slip … Continue reading →

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Improved Stream detection

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The slowest part of using the Station Editor is when it tries to find the streaming link, which requires looking at every possible link of a page and asking “might this be a possible stream”? Now the editor first checks … Continue reading →

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April Madness

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Fred Stiening

America loves its sports! The last major part of the Czar Competition is in place. It’s not too late to enter the competition, but time is running out. Supplies are limited! If all the operators are busy, please try again! … Continue reading →

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George Noory’s guest Wednesday night has three heads

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Courtesy Premiere Radio Networks

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Where the young ears are listening

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Based on Facebook like counts

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Enhancements to Needs Review list

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Time for more choices… You can now set the sort order independently of which group stations you choose. Facebook likes is probably more useful than city size in finding “important” station. Format type has two new options – Only Religious … Continue reading →

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Wix.com alert

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Wix.com offers an easy to use do it yourself web hosting service that lately has been promoted heavily on streaming radio (or maybe I’m being targeted) If you are testing a web site and get back only a blank page … Continue reading →

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Server problems….

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Fred Stiening

For those who are doing the volunteer thing, the server is currently returning all servers as “invalid”. Not sure if this is temporary – in retrospect it may be that I’ve been hitting the whois API with too many requests … Continue reading →

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Lorem ipsum

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Lorem Ipsum is not just a random string of characters. It has a long history in typesetting – it is a standard sequence of nonsense words used to test how text flows without being too obvious or offensive if someone … Continue reading →

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