Talk about odd marketing – I was listening to WRDU-FM trying to straighten which station is which (Boston’s WTKK call sign was taken by Clear Channel and moved to North Carolina)
Then I hear this odd promo for the iHeartRadio about someone who was found dead and he died from getting the iHeartRadio with its 1,500 station selection, and he ended up boogying himself to death.
The station plays geriatric music (aka Classic Rock) so that’s more than a hypothetical outcome. Move over grandpa.
That’s the bogeyman… “Did Jesus Die for Klingons Too?” You paid for the answer, so click here:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-16/homeland-security-agencies-wasted-money-seminars-%E2%80%9Cdid-jesus-die-klingons-too%E2%80%9D
That crazyass “Iheartradio” crap. I try to find stations that don’t use it.
Liquidcompass, and my favorite, “streamtheWorld” Loads fast, no video commercials and very little graphics.
I like the simple ones, even V5.Player.abacast isn’t too bad.
go away (*heartradio) and take flash with you , LOL
parrott
I like your idea…..and always choose Windows Media, Liquidcompass, or StreamtheWorld.
iHeart SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!
I’m with youse guys. I always look for independent streams. One of the reasons I surf the interweb to listen is that i can pick up shows from across the nation and part of the experience is picking up their own stream from their web sites.
Hey Art, I swear I think we listened to WRDU a couple years ago on the way to Wilmington NC , while going by Raleigh. I thought they were a country music station? They played a Kellie Pickler song, and I asked my wife , “what happened to her?”
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3066/3006474484_206a34b725_z.jpg?zz=1
Taylor, Brad and Kellie
Oh well,
“…They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, call me Deacon Blues,”
Parrott
That sounds plausible and that’s where the station was. Rush Limbaugh used to be on heritage station WSJS-AM, and Clear Channel wanted to pull the show “in house”, so they changed WRDU-FM to “Rush Radio” about two years ago.
When WTKK-FM in Boston gave up on talk radio, clear Channel scarfed up the call sign and moved it to a music station, and last week swapped the call signs. Rush Radio is now WTKK-FM and WRDU is now classic rock
“KYW Radio Cleveland Changes to WKYC-June 19, 1965 ”
“Another Piece of History..Portions of the last 20 minutes of the Jay Lawrence Show from KYW-AM Cleveland..At 5AM The Change is made to WKYC-AM 1100 due to FCC order of NBC and Westinghouse switching markets, KYW moved back to Philadelphia while WRCV Radio and TV moved to Cleveland as WKYC..Lawrence is at his best, with comic references to both Westinghouse and NBC..KYW-1060 Philly sign-on is included also..”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z3Moxn1p0Y
BTW- WRCV was owned by RCA through its ownership of NBC (before GE bought RCA). Here are two interesting reader comments on youtube:
” BobWXXI 11 months ago
The comic remote bit Jay Lawrence was doining referred to the studio as “the WTAM building.” What goes around comes around–the station is now WTAM once more.”
… . and:
“John Fenner 1 year ago
NBC didn’t learn there lesson from the extortion they pulled on Westinghouse, as they would screw Conan O’Brien out of the Tonight Show in favor of chinboy Leno 54 years later. The FCC should order that reversed too.” 😉
Correct, for many years (starting in the mid-1980’s) WRDU was a classic/hard rock station. They then switched to Country for a time (part of 2006 through part of 2009) before moving to the all talk “Rush Radio” format.
Hey: what happened to WotBoa ? Hadn’t seen any of his/her polls lately
They were quite funny.
Parrott
Tunein App works much much better..
I only use Iheartradio when clearchannel blocks the stream everywhere else..
This is a product I saw on television for unblocking streams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKgSv0JIqok
Nice, but it makes your nose run
If the streams in that clip were blocked near near the mighty Des Plaines, you’d be up a creek without a paddle… the TARP would overflow and Rosemont would be in deep doo doo.
http://www.lakedistricttourist.info/wp-content/uploads//2012/06/1c46ac1ee8df4eb845f0c0369a87f2b8.jpg
I have another picture where there is a walkway that is probably designed as a flow limiter – it was about 2 inches from the top. It would have taken very little more to quickly overflow the marble sitting areas which are really there to contain a flood
It’s raining again today