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- TheChairman said So I did some follow-up: the station is KVOI. Apparently, the station has been taken over by democrat aliens. They removed L Elder, D Prager, M Medved, and D Loesch, among others. Replaced with fluf...
- CC1s121LrBGT said “NC State rolls out Ph.D. in ‘social justice education’” … ““The goal of the program is to help educators recognize and disrupt systems of oppression… ” from https...
- TheChairman said Along similar lines, my wife wants to express her gratitude for SRG. In the wee hours of the morning she had been listening to a station in Tucson (while we are in MI) and said: “a couple days p...
- Fred Stiening said From today’s Plaza Midwood crime blotter http://www.wbtv.com/2018/11/15/crime-stoppers-undisguised-unarmed-man-robs-gas-station-plaza-over/?outputType=amp
- Fred Stiening said Just today I reminded Countess about the existence of Craigslist and how it has devestated classified ads, both in conventional and alternative newspapers. It is real time ad placement and obviously...
- TheChairman said Well, hello Countess! Good to see you here on the blog… my wife really enjoyed those photos of the Greek Orthodox church. Last time I picked up and perused a weekly alternative paper was probab...
- CountessRobini said Dear Parrott: never ate at a Bojangles before the sale was announced so I went yesterday. Great country ham biscuit — light and fluffy biscuit (nicely greasy)and salty thin-cut ham. Enjoyed e...
- CountessRobini said Yup. Thanks Haiti for terrific article.
- CC1s121LrBGT said He also rounded up some American citizens by race and concentrated them into camps. He was the master of “Intersectionality”.
- CountessRobini said Dear Jersey Devil. You are welcome. It was our duty to stand up. We had planned to go to the Trump rally (I was so hoping I could maneuver my way into the press area and talk to some of the people co...
- CountessRobini said Dear Parrott: thank you. It was the principle. But I must say the shrimp and grits with spicy mango sauce was excellent.
- Fred Stiening said The first Harris Teeter supermarket was in Plaza Midwood back when being a mile from downtown was the suburbs as well as the first Family Dollar store. Since moving back, the two news stories I rememb...
- CountessRobini said Chairman: Did you really buy space in this publication? With my working background I try really hard to support any print publication I can by 1. Reading it and 2. Patronizing the advertisers and doi...
- Fred Stiening said So Mr Harris did win by a little under 2,000 votes. The pattern was very interesting. Absentee and early voting skewed heavily toward Mr McCready, the Democrat who lost. As I suggested, Union Cou...
- Fred Stiening said By that definition, FDR was a fascist, too – but we tolerated it because we had a war to fight. FDR installed censorship in Hollywood, hired Hollywood to produce propoganda, directed private co...
- TheChairman said Parrott, here’s one for you… freighter spotting is the ‘sport’ at our new place. If a vessel is close enough to shore, I grab the camera and snap a few photos. A few weeks ago...
- Parrott said A few days ago, & 43 years, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975. I remember seeing that on news when I was a kid. I didn’t get to go see the Great L...
- TheChairman said The images of Obama hosting a dinner for ‘tech titans’ (Media’s term) from Google, FB, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, etc –to cement the Socialist Surveillance State–...
- briand75 said Definition of fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government heade...
- Fred Stiening said Not really. These are major market papers, targeted at people spending money on booze, tatoos, drug paraphernalia, escort services, strip clubs and the like. Typically they are full of left wing po...
- haiti222 said This restaurant closed two months after this article partially due to an informal boycott. I ate their once, it was popular and open several years. http://www.blacdetroit.com/BLAC-Detroit/November-201...
- TheChairman said The Metro Times will need a new ad source. Voters approved Proposal 1 (recreational marijuana) and the new democrat governor is ready to expunge records for past offenders. Welcome to the Twilight Zon...
- TheChairman said Notice the immediate belligerence by the left, the day after the election. It doesn’t matter if they lose or win, the liberals want to agitate and terrorize.
- TheChairman said Hey Parrott. Yeah, the irony is John James (black conservative) lost mostly in the Detroit/Lansing areas. We voted for him, as did most of northern Michigan. It seems the ‘racists’ are on...
- Parrott said Just heard on Rush Limbaugh, some radical protesters posted Tucker carleson’s home address gooberbook or some message board, and they showed up and rioted in the street demanding he move ou...
- Parrott said Just looked at the map in Real Clear politics for the senate race in Michigan chairman. All red for John James except the higher density areas. So he looses. Same here in Virginia. NOVA , Virg...
- TheJerseyDevil said Thank you Fred and Countess
- Parrott said This is super awesome ! “With my “I Voted” sticker on my forehead, we walked in their door, and without blinking an eye Countess announced “We are here because of the Boycott”. The owner imme...
- Parrott said In other Charlotte NC news, “Bojangles’ announced Tuesday its plans to be sold, WRAL reports. The Charlotte-based company has entered an agreement with Durational Capital Management LP and The J...
- Fred Stiening said Just an odd coincidence – a few years ago I was called for jury duty. It was the day of the “riot” (I wrote about it at the time). One of the people randomly selected identified himself as the...
- TheChairman said About 15 years ago, I labeled them as ‘social fascists’ when they began using email, early social media, and group tactics to manipulate, intimidate, and ostracize others. This is an examp...
- haiti222 said Glad you went there…..Here medical marijuana ads seem to be keeping the alternative weekly afloat, although it is definitely declining. They lost their sleazy, liberal political commentator due...
- Parrott said Yeah I heard that whitey bite the dust. I seen that movie Johnny Depp did on him. He was believable. I think he continued to act like whitey afterwards. Supposedly Disney dumped Depp in the Pi...
- Parrott said User error . freaked out to soon.
- TheChairman said There is hope: https://BLEXIT.com
- Fred Stiening said If CC was here, he would probably point out that since we are looking at Union County, we won’t see streets in Mecklenburg County. That is true but except in the city of Mathews, there is li...
- Fred Stiening said Boston’s Howie Carr has had a potentially career ending development to his radio career. The Mob Boss / FBI informant Whitey Bulger has been killed in Federal Prison in West Virginia. He was 8...
- Fred Stiening said My preliminary guess is possible user error, like having a filter enabled by accident. The station and program are still in the database
- Fred Stiening said Hopefully, no more show up while he is in jail
- Parrott said whoa, something happened on SRG this morning . Mornings on the Mall, wmal is gone. in fact a whole bunch is gone. Does this have something to do with IBM buying red hat ? parrott
- Parrott said Cool Fred. That is it. The part about Syrian refugees, still bothers me. I remember a interview with a Christan Syrian family that was trying to get to the U.S. and they applied, but were rejecte...
- Fred Stiening said Turns out that angle was a lie, too. He pretended to be a Seminole, but his parents are Italian and Filipino
- Fred Stiening said They are bogged down investigating shoe companies giving money to athletes https://articles.oregonlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/10/feds_release_revealing_wiretap.amp And verifying Tesla vehicle prod...
- Fred Stiening said Connecting dots between George Siros and HIAS https://capitalresearch.org/article/refugee-resettlement-the-lucrative-business-of-serving-immigrants/
- Parrott said well o’le October has turned out to be a blast. Fake Bombs and fake news. Dave Hodges southern ‘Red Dawn’ invasion is losing steam. Gosh he has been predicting that for I know t...
- TheChairman said Vaguely. I lived in AZ from 1985 on, and didn’t return to MI until 2009. I do recall the Michigan Militia making the news on a few occasions. Of course, AZ had border militia making news as we...
- Fred Stiening said And the name of the state was spelled incorrectly on the return address. The Seminole tribe were pretty successful at defending their home territory from European colonizers.
- Fred Stiening said Remember the Hutaree?
- Fred Stiening said Not of any real significance, but he played soccer for UNC-Charlotte, and nearby Brevard college. He did not graduate, though.
- Parrott said Best part of all this ‘stupidity’ was the use of ‘Debbi Wasserman Schultz’ as the return address. That part was hilarious. How do you get ‘Lunch-bucket Joe’ ou...
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Category Archives: Player Metrics
2% of streaming is done using Internet Exploder
December’s results are in. The trend to stream using mobile devices rolls on. Triton Digital Report Triton Digital is the biggest platform for radio streaming and has “instrumentation” for other streaming services. It isn’t measuring everything, but most of the … Continue reading
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Desktop streaming is dead
Maybe the FCC has saved AM radio, but nothing will save desktop computers. The just released metrics from Nielsen’s Triton digital is that 73.8% of all streaming is now done from mobile devices, mostly iDevices and Android.
73%
Streaming is changing extremely fast http://www.tritondigital.com/press-releases/triton-digital-releases-march-2015-top-20-ranker In March, 73% of audio streaming is happening on mobile devices, and Pandora, Spotify and Slacker are crushing Terrestrial radio. SiriusXM doesn’t use the Internet (although streaming is available) so their 25 million paying … Continue reading
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The future of Mobile Streaming
Up until recently, if you wanted to listen to a radio station on your cell phone or iPad, you need an app like ooTunes, iHeartRadio or tuneIn. With the introduction of Internet connected entertainment systems in new cars, over the … Continue reading
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Triton Digital snares Salem Radio streaming
Triton Media is the folks owned by Oaktree Capital – the Private Equity folks with their hands in a lot radio. Triton Digital is the part that runs StreamTheWorld and Ando Media – providing a complete end-to-end solution for … Continue reading
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Introducing “Hide All Players of this Type”
Bow before the new mighty icon So you don’t ever want to see a Clear Channel Player? uStream? Flash? Wherever you see that icon, you can make every station using that player vanish with one click (if you have an account … Continue reading
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SecureNet w/no video ad – ~200 kb
List of examples: http://streamingradioguide.com/adm/player-type.php?playerid=9&action=listall What it does: Loads up about 40k of Javascript and 40k of graphics (a Flash app would download all of that in one file) If you don’t have a cookie for the station, it pesters you … Continue reading
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StreamTheWorld LivePlayer – 1.6 MB
http://streamingradioguide.com/adm/player-type.php?playerid=24&action=listall Liveplayer is the Targetspot version of the basic STW player. What it does: Downloads a 219k “General Ad Server” Flash App Says “Hi” to Google Analytics Gets configuration info via XML loads the player Flash App (144k) downloads a … Continue reading
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Player Bloat – Cox Radio – 6 MB
http://streaming.y100fm.com/_players/coxradio/index.php?callsign=KCYYFM&referringsite=johngalt.streamingradioguide.com Cox Radio is doing their own thing. They used to use StreamAudio, now they are using StreamTheWorld for the actual stream – but not using the lean mean STW player, but instead the TargetSpot streaming ad insertion with extra … Continue reading
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The first anti-bloat victory!
I claim no credit for this, but I certainly am cheering. Clear Channel is going to stop running those damn prestreaming ads on a large part of the day. According to the story at Tom Taylor’s newsletter, CC’s new policy … Continue reading
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