The playlist of the late '60s/'70s/'80s music of the old WODS Classic Hits format as it was just before the switch five years ago is still playing automated on the 103.3 HD2 channel. Don't know if anyone there is listening to it, the audio processing has been sounding muddy for at least a few months now.
but, for those of us - and I suspect this is a rather large number - who have neither HD radios nor the ability to pick up a stream in our vehicles.
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because there's no way the Department of Justice will allow Entercom to own both WEEI and The Sports Hub
The DOJ does not get to decide which station you can keep and which one's you must dispense of.....
They did decide in Denver when Entercom bought out Lincoln Financial Media, so they may do so again in Boston.
Can you source that claim?
Can you source that claim?
Wimmex, you're always such a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. LOL
Well, if you like the music/format that much...sounds like a fixable situation on your part.
Up here in the Merrimack Valley, reception of the Boston HD subchannels is usually hit or miss. It takes a while for the radio to acquire and sync to the signal, then, only seconds later, the signal disappears. And that's when the signals are being broadcast. Many a time I tried tuning in an HD subchannel on either 103.3 or 100.7 only to find it not there at all.
As for liking WODS-HD2's "oldies" offering: fuhgeddaboudit! With no personalities like Paula Street, Patrick Callahan, Mike Finnegan the music is lifeless.
For my part, the best oldies are available on Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel (TOC). KFRC.com isn't too bad, but delves way too much (for my tastes) into the 80s, more so than Scott's TOC, at the expense of the 60s.
There were many a days in the summers of the mid 2000's I would be cruising around the back roads of New Hampshire on my Harley, the radio tuned to 103.3. Miss those days.
The insiders on this and that other radio site tell those like me who "know nothing about the business of radio" that Oldies 103.3 can't draw listeners, can't make money, is never coming back, so we should just get over it. But I'd like to ask them this: how many of the hip-hop crowd actually listen to all those Boston stations that go out of their way to cater to them? Would any hip-hop fans frequent a site such as this to justify the number of stations playing hip-hop or some variant thereof? At least there are a small number of us who bemoan the loss of Oldies 103.3 unabashedly.
Up here in the Merrimack Valley, reception of the Boston HD subchannels is usually hit or miss. It takes a while for the radio to acquire and sync to the signal, then, only seconds later, the signal disappears. And that's when the signals are being broadcast. Many a time I tried tuning in an HD subchannel on either 103.3 or 100.7 only to find it not there at all.
As for liking WODS-HD2's "oldies" offering: fuhgeddaboudit! With no personalities like Paula Street, Patrick Callahan, Mike Finnegan the music is lifeless.
For my part, the best oldies are available on Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel (TOC). KFRC.com isn't too bad, but delves way too much (for my tastes) into the 80s, more so than Scott's TOC, at the expense of the 60s.
You ought to try streaming the WWOD/WFYX simulcast at koolnh.com. It's an oldies station up in the Vermont/New Hampshire Upper Valley (White River Junction/Hanover area) that's still '60s and '70s only except for syndication on weekends. They even have a daily "class reunion" hour (songs from one year) and a Top 4 at 4 (Billboard chart toppers for that week). A real throwback of a station, with a deeper playlist than most -- reminiscent of WBOQ 104.9 before it shifted its focus to '70s and '80s and threw out the stiffs and non-testers.
Thanks for the online link to these guys!! I've listened to WWOD-FM (93.9) when I've traveled through Woodstock (COL) on the way to Killington/Rutland.....IMHO, not too shabby!!