Some of the blog readers never visit the guide, but to keep you in the loop… I’ve incorporated the concept of format categories
This allows subdivision of huge station formats like “country” into smaller, more manageable (and hopefully more useful) groupings. It will take time to break up the huge old groups and sort out what the different types should be. If you know one of the categories well enough to organize them, your effort will be appreciated.
You can now “acquire” stations and move them into a format you control. Let the battle of czars commence
Great new look, but requires too much mouse clicking to see all the talk shows on at any one time.
Please allow preferences to select the format(s) (plural) that the user is interested in.
It seems that where ever I go to find a stream, there is Jennifer Wilde with “Tech Trends” and Judith Light, age 66, pretending she is a young 65 as she promotes flu shots for the elderly. I am starting to miss Smokey Bear. 🙂
The “this weekend at the box office” also leaves me cold. Not only am I not interested, why would a radio station promote a competitor. The fairly obvious answer to my question is – because radio destroyed people listening on weekends except on Saturday morning and late on Sunday night.
Here is a plug for the “Export to CSV” link on the bottom of radio shows pages such as this one: http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-show.php?showid=51
I wanted to find and save a stream that had the Moneytalk show on weekends, the John Batchelor show evenings and anything other than Sean Hannity at 3-6 pm weekdays.
I downloaded the CSV for the Moneytalk and Batchelor shows, made each a tab in an Excel workbook. Did a VLOOKUP to find the stations that had both shows, filtered the start/stop time columns to the times I was interested in listening, and saw a short list of stations.
I know the CSV files are not up to date for many smaller market stations, so I tuned in to each to verify they had the shows I was expecting. Most did buy several did not. For those that did, I clicked on the stations web pages themselves and found WXLM in Art’s former homestate of Connecticut.