Category Archives: About the Guide

The Incredible vanishing Crystal Media Networks Player

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Fred Stiening

It’s the first of the month, always a time for great adventure. Although I’m no longer publishing player information, I use the data for my own testing purposes. I was shocked about half an hour ago to get a 404 … Continue reading →

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Visibility of Redundancy Data

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Fred Stiening

If you have signed up as a volunteer, on the “What’s on now page”, you should now see a link like this one: Clicking on that link will bring you to the complete list of stations presented in the way … Continue reading →

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New Station Format – Native Tribe

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Fred Stiening

This is long overdue. The Democrats have been pushing the FCC for a very long time to hand out radio station licenses to Indian Tribes and those have slowly been showing up. I’ve put them variously under “ethnic” (if they … Continue reading →

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The huge coming “data purge”

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Fred Stiening

I’ve decided to go forward with the big data purge mentioned by me a number of times over the years, although I’m still refining the rules. The basic concept is that most visitors realize after a while that when listening … Continue reading →

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The next big idea

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Fred Stiening

I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while – it isn’t all that complex, but would require lots of changes to make it work. Currently (going back to almost the beginning 10 years ago), you can ignore a show … Continue reading →

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The Wacky World of Simulcasting

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Until there is peace in the Middle East, don’t expect to be reading much politics on this blog. I’m actively not listening to “right wing” talk radio. If you’re interested in volunteering to help the web site, read on – … Continue reading →

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Safer Browsing

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Fred Stiening

On the path to making using this web site more secure, the Security Filter has been integrated into the “URL Caution Notice”. It provides the URL, a link to ARIN to see who owns the IP, and who we think … Continue reading →

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The coming Internet war

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Imagine that you’re a volunteer and trying to determine if this is the real web site for WABY-AM, which last we knew was a nostalgia music station on AM 900 in the Saratoga area called Saratoga Moon, but for some … Continue reading →

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Station Web Site load times

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Fred Stiening

A while back, I started logging how long it takes to load a station’s home page. It’s important to be clear this is just the HMTL text for the home page, not the 57 things a web browser goes and … Continue reading →

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FCC data problem

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Fred Stiening

For reasons I haven’t yet identified, the update of FCC license data has not been working for some time. While looking at a station that had its web site vanish, I noticed that the Licensee was still set to the … Continue reading →

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