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WCBS-880 question

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I tuned into the WCBS-880 stream this morning at 5:30 am and was subjected to 10 minutes of continuous 30-second spots before turning it off at 5:40.

Anyone know if if this was on the stream only or is it part of their on-air clock at that hour?

The spots were all 30's and most began with a question, "Do you owe the IRS ...,", "Are you tired of too many trips to the bathroom ...," etc., which makes me think they may have all come from the same source.

This was not a 3rd party stream (Streema, etc.) but CBS's own site, http://wcbs880.radio.net/.

Thanks.
 
http://www.Radio.net is a radio station curated site much like http://www.TuneIn.com and http://www.streema.com

The "official" CBS Radio site for WCBS 880's audio is at http://www.Radio.com

Specific link: http://player.radio.com/listen/station/wcbs-newsradio-880

Most likely the large block of ads was stream-only (and likely a streaming "error" - certainly not indicative of what would be broadcast on-air).

Sometimes the CBS Radio streams begin with a set of ads before the link-up to the "on-air" stream kicks in.
Of course, the link is broken every time WCBS (and most other CBS Radio stations) goes to commercial break
and the stream is unable to carry most of the on-air commercials.

Side note: for a plain, quick-opening, non-ad-based browser player to use for WCBS
(and other CBS Radio stations and other stations that use StreamTheWorld as a streaming pipeline),
use the following link:

http://player.streamtheworld.com/liveplayer.php?CALLSIGN=WCBSAMAAC

The call sign can be changed in the URL to obtain a different station stream
such as "WINSAMAAC", "WFANAMAAC", "WCBSFMAAC", "WNEWFMAAC", "WBMPFMAAC", "KROCK2AAC" (for 92.3 HD2), "WNEWHD2AAC" (for 102.7 HD2), etc.

The "...AAC" URL should work for most (if not all) of the CBS Radio streams.

Using WCBS 880 as an example, suffixes other than "...AAC" that can be used would be:

WCBSAM
WCBSAMDIALUP
WCBSAMDIALUPAAC
 
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