Category Archives: About the Guide

How I spent Festivus

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Every radio station web site has now been visited if it was over 320 days old. Going into the shopping season, there were around 1,000 radio stations without any indication of a web site at all – some had not … Continue reading →

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End of tracking sporting events

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Last night, while “checking” to see if John Bachelor was still on WABC-AM in New York, I noticed the entry said Seaton Hall College Basketball might be on the air instead. It occurred to me that I haven’t heard live … Continue reading →

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Live by Google, Die by Google

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Well, it happened today. Google sent me a notice of malware infection – it has nothing to do with StreamingRadioGuide.com, but rather with a radio station owner in Hawaii whose server was infected. Google partly suspects my web server could … Continue reading →

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New Feature – TraceRoute

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Fred Stiening

This morning’s project was to add an ability to “TraceRoute” to the server hosting a radio station’s website. Particularly if you are interested in “Net Neutrality”, seeing how the Internet works behind the scenes will help you have an informed … Continue reading →

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Update to Redundant station page

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The purpose of dropping the goal of listing every station carrying a program was to reduce the work required without substantially limiting the ability to hear a specific program at a specific time – just perhaps not the station you … Continue reading →

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Verification update

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Fred Stiening

It has been about 6 months since I asked for help specifically to go through the 14,000 or so radio stations to confirm the web site and station format, with the target of doing this check on every station every … Continue reading →

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It’s Holiday Music season on radio

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Some stations already have started – not a surprise since WalMart moved Black Friday a week ahead of Thanksgiving this year. Each year – like clockwork – radio stations will begin broadcasting “Holiday Music Season” – songs about reindeer, trees, … Continue reading →

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Facebook Counts are broken

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Fred Stiening

For several years, I’ve gathered Facebook “like” counts using a published API for this purpose. They provide an interesting comparison of popularity. The counts are updated only when the station is pulled up in the station editor or when someone … Continue reading →

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old blogs

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The pre-2009 blogs are offline, perhaps forever. I noticed that one of them was full of comment spam, and is probably an ongoing security risk since the version of wordpress is very old. It isn’t clear why I can’t upgrade … Continue reading →

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New artwork

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

This version of WordPress now supports randomized images in the header. Today’s new radio station of the day is WHNR-AM in Cypress Gardens Florida. The station has a 3 tower directional array- one of the towers collapsed in 2010, has … Continue reading →

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