{"id":15160,"date":"2016-05-15T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15160"},"modified":"2016-05-15T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:49:02","slug":"call-to-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15160","title":{"rendered":"Call to listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of &#8220;call to listen&#8221; seems to be growing.   This started on ethnic stations and apparently is widely used in Asia.   Rather than needing a smart phone with a data plan, if you have any phone with unlimited long distance, you just dial an ordinary phone number and the radio station audio server answers.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, if you call <a href=\"Tel:\/\/202-380-9977\">202-380-9977<\/a>, you will start hearing All News WTOP in Washington DC.   <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-2-e1463345105983.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"43\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15164\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The motivation for radio stations isn&#8217;t very clear.   They probably can insert targeted ads.  I don&#8217;t know (yet) if calling the number then allows the radio station to call or text you back.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audionow.com\/\">AudioNow<\/a> Seems to be the folks behind much of this.<\/p>\n<p>Any opinions?  Guesses?<\/p>\n<p>It would not take a lot to add the numbers to the directory (other than finding the numbers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of &#8220;call to listen&#8221; seems to be growing. This started on ethnic stations and apparently is widely used in Asia. Rather than needing a smart phone with a data plan, if you have any phone with unlimited long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15160\">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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160","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=15160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15166,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions\/15166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}