{"id":12832,"date":"2015-06-15T11:59:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=12832"},"modified":"2015-06-15T11:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:59:43","slug":"iheart-radio-is-so-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=12832","title":{"rendered":"IHeart radio is so gay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radioinsight.com\/blog\/headlines\/netgnomes\/93296\/96-7-minneapolis-coming-out-on-friday\/\">IHeart launches 24 hr\/day Pride station in Minneapolis \/ Saint Paul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t find a call sign in most of the news stories.  This is one of those &#8220;stations&#8221; (W244CS) that is really a low powered FM Translator being fed by an HDx channel that nobody can hear, but makes the translator legal &#8211; and allows an extra FM station that doesn&#8217;t count against the owner&#8217;s market cap on how many stations they can operate.   Christian radio operators who got free FM translators from George Bush about 10 years to spread the love of Jesus are making a ton of cash by selling them to commercial radio for arrangements like this.  An FM translator with a good tower can still cover a major city fairly well.<\/p>\n<p>First we had an all pot station, now an all gay station.  What next?  24 hour a day evading immigration news talk?   24 hour a day Islamic music?    One of my memories as a child was playing with my Dad&#8217;s shortwave radio and hearing these odd stations from the Middle East that seemed to exist only to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/06\/opinion\/06kristof.html\">which our President Obama surely has stored on his iPod <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IHeart launches 24 hr\/day Pride station in Minneapolis \/ Saint Paul You won&#8217;t find a call sign in most of the news stories. This is one of those &#8220;stations&#8221; (W244CS) that is really a low powered FM Translator being fed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=12832\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clear-channel","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12835,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832\/revisions\/12835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}