Category Archives: About the Guide

Off topic thread

This is a placeholder for your favorite off topic topics. Accordingly, if you post a comment that is not off topic, your post would be on topic, which makes it off topic. Good luck!

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We get letters!

Hope that isn’t a trademark! “Why does Progressive Talk get its own category under Station Format but not Conservative Talk?  It’s almost impossible to search.  There are 33 stations for Progressive Talk and 810 stations for News/Talk.  Your bias is … Continue reading →

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“In plain sight” rule

This web site has existed in its current form for roughly 10 years. One of my guiding principles is that I only publish the same streaming player links that can be found if you follow the link and visit the … Continue reading →

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Beware Misleading download advertisements

This is more directed at radio stations than it is at visitors, but be alert this is going on. Stations that use graphics ads from AdSense are going to be targeted with highly misleading advertisements This happens to be for … Continue reading →

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It’s playoff time

It’s that time of year – the NBA and NHL playoffs have started – stations that don’t normally carry sports (neither hockey nor basketball are really radio sports) will start having periods of time where streaming is down (or they’ll … Continue reading →

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Keeping track of the past

I just added a new feature, that about 3 people will find interesting, and he rest will go “huh?” Let’s say you know that Dr Laura Schlessinger used to have a radio show, and left a year ago to move … Continue reading →

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Dead Program Cleanup

The other day, I was looking at the show list that appears on the right side of the “What’s on now page” – more there for Google’s use than for visitors, although I’m sure the curious find it interesting. I’m … Continue reading →

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Why I removed Conservative Talk from the directory

Got your attention? Maybe a year ago, I split apart “Conservative Talk” stations – stations with 12+ hours a day of syndicated conservative talk stations from those with more varied talk programming. With all of the changes in syndication, this … Continue reading →

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Beware of Seedabutor

http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/entry.aspx?name=Trojan%3aJS%2fSeedabutor.B&threatid=2147678632 One of the reasons my database is deteriorating is that I’m at the point of being scared to test stations. I may ultimately have to stop or seriously limit the streaming links as they become a danger to people … Continue reading →

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IPad tweak

Today is my first full day using an iPad on the web site. Up until now, that meant making the web site functioned like an iPhone with its smaller screen – but in reality the iPad is a full size … Continue reading →

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