Category Archives: About the Guide

Triton Digital slips away

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Fred Stiening

This is still a little murky, but Tom Taylor reports that Triton Digital has been sold of by OakTree Capital. OakTree also owns Townsquare Media, whose business model seemed to be to acquire non-viable radio stations and hope that selling … Continue reading →

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People still like radio!

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Fred Stiening

This is from a Cumulus Station in Grand Rapids playing Contemporary Hits (CHR) music. With the disclaimer this appears to be a local issue, not showing up on other Cumulus Stations. Grand Rapids has a potential radio audience of about … Continue reading →

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New old Station Format – Local Full Service

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Fred Stiening

“Full Service” radio is radio jargon not necessarily understood by the general public, and a full service radio station is one the least likely to stream on the Internet, hence up until now I named the format “Local News / … Continue reading →

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Feel the Power!

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Now you can accurately sort the “Radio Stations Near Me” by signal strength, and it should work. Click on the blue Signal link in the header. http://streamingradioguide.com/findme.php Some browsers on Desktops will guess where you are, mobile devices will tell … Continue reading →

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Volunteer Status update

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Fred Stiening

It’s been a month since I pointed out that stations were slipping back into being > 180 days since being given the cursory review I asked people to help with. With about 14,000 stations now with websites or at least … Continue reading →

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Possible outage on the 8th

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Fred Stiening

It was only a matter of time before this happened. Now that “the web” is migrating to “the cloud”, The hackers and the NSA Will try to break into “the cloud”. This server is no longer a “real” server, but … Continue reading →

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New Countdown

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Few people probably notice, but the footer of the directory has a JavaScript countdown clock. It had been counting down to the 2014 November election when our budget problems would be solved by electing a Republican Majority in the Senate. … Continue reading →

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Chicago’s only black owned mall

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Story from 2003 I was searching for a 10 watt zombie in South Chicago named WSSD-FM on South Halsted Street when I spotted this huge empty parking lot. Such things just don’t exist in Chicago WSSD-FM is an odd zombie. … Continue reading →

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Anyone live near Fresno – zombie watch!

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Fred Stiening

So in 2011, multicultural radio said this station just had too many issues, and needed to run at 25% power, but never notified the FCC it was fixed. The owner of this empire is a Chinese guy who has an … Continue reading →

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I found a zombie!

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Now that I have a more accurate way to know what radio stations you should be able to hear, it was time to test it in the real world. Back around Christmas time, I sat in a parking lot with … Continue reading →

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