Clear Channel announces HD Rollout on Miami Stations

[954]

Clear Channel announces HD Rollout on Miami Stations and 27 other markets...

Miami (starting 1/30)
WBGG-FM | Classic Rock | HD2 Channel: AAA
WHYI-FM | CHR | HD2 Channel: New CHR
WLVE-FM | Smooth Jazz | HD2 Channel: Classical
WMGE-FM | Hurban | HD2 Channel: Adult Standards
WMIB-FM | Urban | HD2 Channel: Urban Variety Oldies

from http://www.clearchannel.com/Radio/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=1502

More about it in Feb Radio News, coming soon....

73s from 954<P ID="signature">______________
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[bossmsx]

Dale Don Ho Dale!

Does this mean Don Omar will be doing a free concert at Century Village??

> WMGE-FM | Hurban | HD2 Channel: Adult Standards

 

[954]

Dale Don Ho Dale! Hidey hidey hidey ho!

> Does this mean Don Omar will be doing a free concert at
> Century Village??
> > WMGE-FM | Hurban | HD2 Channel: Adult Standards

Only if he sings Minnie the Moocher.

"Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
Hidey hidey hidey hi! Hidey hidey hidey ho! Oh yeahhhhhhh!"

Unfortunately, some lyrics are still relevant today:
"She loved him though he was cokey."

I think Classical on Love94's HD2 is even funnier.

I'm not going to double the value of my car by
putting a HD radio in.

And when I'm at home with my PC and CDs and even
beethoven.com, who needs Clear Channel for classical
music? Too little too late.

Had multicast HD radio become affordable before web
radio got so big, it might have had a chance. But why
invest that money in a car radio unless you're either
rich or in a car-intensive job?

CC's 5 will bring the total to 8 multicasts in the
Miami market. Big Deal.

73s from 954<P ID="signature">______________
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[Ai4i]

Re: Dale Don Ho Dale! Hidey hidey hidey ho!

I Emailed Glove-94, asking them when more infor about their classical HD-2 stream will be posted on line.
It would have been adorable if 93.1 HD-2 had gone classical.

Does anyone know if any stations plan on degrading their audio qualities more by adding HD-3...HD-999 streams at this time?
I would suggest low bandwidth streams for HD-3 news/talk and extremely low bandwidth streams for HD-4 continuous traffic/weather.<P ID="signature">______________
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[bossmsx]

Re: Dale Don Ho Dale! Hidey hidey hidey ho!

> I Emailed Glove-94, asking them when more infor about their
> classical HD-2 stream will be posted on line.
> It would have been adorable if 93.1 HD-2 had gone classical.

The problem here is, 91.3 is already doing Classical on their HD-deuce..And it's actually a pretty good fare of music, they just have alot of technical mess ups..So WLVE doing Classical is, um, redundant.

 

[954]

Rosalie and WHDR

> > I Emailed Glove-94, asking them when more infor about
> their
> > classical HD-2 stream will be posted on line.
> > It would have been adorable if 93.1 HD-2 had gone
> classical.

The format doesn't start 'til end of month.

> The problem here is, 91.3 is already doing Classical on
> their HD-deuce..And it's actually a pretty good fare of
> music, they just have alot of technical mess ups..So WLVE
> doing Classical is, um, redundant.

Maybe what ai4i meant is IRONIC... because the potty
music format they used to replace classical WTMI didn't
last long ... about 1/10 as long as WTMI lasted.

What I'd like to see is Schlub94-HD2 (I couldn't resist
after the name you used) picking up Jazz on HD2.
<font size='+1' color=red?REAL Genuine Jazz.</font> Not smooth tripe.

FYI: http://www.bartleby.com/61/76/S0137675.html

Listening to some scratchy 78s tonite. They'll never
replace CDs. The only one I liked so far (after about
10 of 'em) was Rosalie by Artie Shaw. "It's got a
beat and you can cance to it!"

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[954]

Re: Dale Don Ho Dale! Hidey hidey hidey ho!

> I Emailed Glove-94, asking them when more infor about their
> classical HD-2 stream will be posted on line.
> It would have been adorable if 93.1 HD-2 had gone classical.
>
>
> Does anyone know if any stations plan on degrading their
> audio qualities more by adding HD-3...HD-999 streams at this
> time?
> I would suggest low bandwidth streams for HD-3 news/talk and
> extremely low bandwidth streams for HD-4 continuous
> traffic/weather.

& HD-5 for atonal rap
... and stations that play Johnny One Note.

73s from 954<P ID="signature">______________
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[Ai4i]

Re: Rosalie and WHDR

>
> > I Emailed Glove-94, asking them when more infor about
>

Yes, IRONIC, that's the word, IRONIQUE!
I got the name, "Glove-94" from Neil Rogers.
I don't know what any of the other stations are doing with their HD plurals, as I can not justify dropping five bills plus for something I would consider a novelty compared to what I've been listening to for the past four years (see signature).<P ID="signature">______________
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Ai4i is always on the trailing edge of technology
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[The-Major]

POTTY Vs. PAR-TAY

> Maybe what ai4i meant is IRONIC... because the potty
> music format they used to replace classical WTMI didn't
> last long ... about 1/10 as long as WTMI lasted.

Hey 954. Greetings from 305. I'm back from out-of-town. I was up in Hot-lanta and 'Middle Georgia' listening to STAR-94 (Atlanta) and B-95.1 (Macon). I listened to "Steve & D.C. In The Morning" every morning while I was near Macon. That's a pretty good morning radio show they've got goin' on there. It actually originates out of St. Louis, and it's syndicated across much of the eastern U.S. But I digress.

Anyway it's great to be back aqui en El Sur De Florida, and it's good to see that 954 continues to look for any available opportunity to trash the legacy that was 'PARTY-93.1' - 'South Florida's Pure Dance Channel' (2002-2005), or as I refer to it (2002-2003).

Keep up the great work 954. Really - it's fun to read all of the new posts on here since I've been away !

THE MAJOR

 

[954]

As for late adopter...

> > > I Emailed Glove-94, asking them when more infor about
>
> Yes, IRONIC, that's the word, IRONIQUE!
> I got the name, "Glove-94" from Neil Rogers.
> I don't know what any of the other stations are doing with
> their HD plurals,

WPOW, WLRN, and WKIS webcast their HD2's.
I'm sure CC will do the same when the time comes -- Jan 30?

> as I can not justify dropping five bills

I can tell you a single web site withalmost as many channels:
accuradio.com

> plus for something I would consider a novelty compared to
> what I've been listening to for the past four years (see
> signature).

As someone pointed out, I can't see spending $12 a
month to escape AM/FM radio by subscribing to a
service partly owned by a #@%$& company (CC) that
is the principal reason for disliking local AM/FM.

73s and guten morgen from 954

As for late adopter, I always said I wouldn't spend $300
on a VCR... There's nothing on TV worth spending that kind
of money on. Then we got one as an anniversary present.

Years later, I have drawers and boxes of videotapes
recorded from TVLand and Nick at Nite and PBS and AMC
(back when they showed classics I'd never seen from before
I was born, not junk movies from since the 70s) that I've
never gotten around to watching. Although I used the
accursed WinDoze at work since 1990, I avoided using it
on my home PC until I couldn't avoid it any more (mid 90s?)
and I still haven't learned enough Linux to have a totally
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[954]

Re: POTTY Vs. PAR-TAY

> Anyway it's great to be back aqui en El Sur De Florida, and
> it's good to see that 954 continues to look for any
> available opportunity to trash the legacy that was
> 'PARTY-93.1' - 'South Florida's Pure Dance Channel'
> (2002-2005), or as I refer to it (2002-2003).

Thank you. I try.

Three years is a legacy to you? (WJNA broadcast promos about
"our new neighborhood" after the move to 640 for a full
two years.) Potty never even got established in the market.

The first song WPYM they played says it all... "Shut the
F*** up and dance." That puerile potty music (what else
could you call it?) established their attitude towards
listeners of legacy WTMI (whom they evidently wanted
to ditch quickly).

WTMI had been broadcasting classical since Nixon was in
his first term and this old fart was in college:

http://www.univox.com/radio/wtmi1971.html

That's a legacy!

And my negative attitude towards the f***ers [hint: a
derivative of the word in the above paragraph] at Cox
management for doing so is perfectly justified.

And the music sucks anyway.

> Keep up the great work 954. Really - it's fun to read all of
> the new posts on here since I've been away !

Muchos gracias, Major. And welcome back.
We like reading your stuff, too.<P ID="signature">______________
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[RadioGuy2004]

Re: As for late adopter...

>
> As for late adopter, I always said I wouldn't spend $300
> on a VCR... There's nothing on TV worth spending that kind
> of money on. Then we got one as an anniversary present.
>
> Years later, I have drawers and boxes of videotapes
> recorded from TVLand and Nick at Nite and PBS and AMC
> (back when they showed classics I'd never seen from before
> I was born, not junk movies from since the 70s) that I've
> never gotten around to watching. Although I used the
> accursed WinDoze at work since 1990, I avoided using it
> on my home PC until I couldn't avoid it any more (mid 90s?)
>
> and I still haven't learned enough Linux to have a totally
> Microsoft-free PC.

>
Simple, 954: Get an Apple Mac. Runs faster, your MS programs will run on it for the most part, no more pesky right button mouse clicking, AND a lot fewer viruses.

And OS X is Linux-based if I'm not mistaken. Well worth the investment.

 

[954]

Mac? Ptui!

> > and I still haven't learned enough Linux to have a totally
> > Microsoft-free PC.
>
> Simple, 954: Get an Apple Mac. Runs faster, your MS
> programs will run on it for the most part, no more pesky
> right button mouse clicking,

Half or a third of the functionality is an asset now?

> AND a lot fewer viruses.

No Way, Jose!

> And OS X is Linux-based if I'm not mistaken. Well worth the
> investment.

Unless Mac has changed substantially since systems 6 and 7,
just about everything (except Senor Gates, of course) I hate
about WinDoze is even worse in the Mac environment.

My first exposure to Mac was in '87, at a new weekly
newspaper I was freelancing for. My impression, "what
the **** is this?" is still correct. The paper lasted
5 weeks. I'm not necessarily blaming this on Apple, though.

1. Written to the lowest common denominator, to be annoying
or inconvenient to prople who know what they're doing.

2. Even more mouse-intensive than WinDoze, with fewer hotkeys.
Last time I used a Mac, you couldn't get past booting without
using a mouse.

3. Grossly overpriced and proprietary.

4. Championed by people who think they are smarter than
everyone else. (No, that's WinDoze. Mac people think they
are cooler than everyone else.)

5. About a hundred times more cute annoying things than
WinDoze's stupid Clippie and his brethren!

6. Favorite of knowitalls like Limbaugh.

Please tell me if any of these observations are obsolete.

73s from 954<P ID="signature">______________
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[Ai4i]

Re: Mac? Ptui!

I assume:
http://204.13.1.19/wlrnclassicstart.htm
is their HD-2 stream, though their website doesn't quite specify this.
I will listen to these HD multicasts as they materialise on line, although I think the dual band (XM & Sirius) radios will come out (just for me) before I add HD to my portfolio.<P ID="signature">______________
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[The-Major]

Re: POTTY Vs. PAR-TAY

> > Anyway it's great to be back aqui en El Sur De Florida,
> and
> > it's good to see that 954 continues to look for any
> > available opportunity to trash the legacy that was
> > 'PARTY-93.1' - 'South Florida's Pure Dance Channel'
> > (2002-2005), or as I refer to it (2002-2003).
>
> Thank you. I try.
>
> Three years is a legacy to you? (WJNA broadcast promos about
>
> "our new neighborhood" after the move to 640 for a full
> two years.) Potty never even got established in the market.
>
> The first song WPYM they played says it all... "Shut the
> F*** up and dance." That puerile potty music (what else
> could you call it?) established their attitude towards
> listeners of legacy WTMI (whom they evidently wanted
> to ditch quickly).
>
> WTMI had been broadcasting classical since Nixon was in
> his first term and this old fart was in college:
>
> http://www.univox.com/radio/wtmi1971.html
>
> That's a legacy!
>
> And my negative attitude towards the f***ers [hint: a
> derivative of the word in the above paragraph] at Cox
> management for doing so is perfectly justified.
>
> And the music sucks anyway.
>
> > Keep up the great work 954. Really - it's fun to read all
> of
> > the new posts on here since I've been away !
>
> Muchos gracias, Major. And welcome back.
> We like reading your stuff, too.

Actually 2002 was the 'legacy' - in my own world (IMOW) - that was 'PARTY-93.1'. Nothing like it had ever been tried before aqui en el Sur de Florida - that is - a 100% European-style trance and techno station. In my own humble opinion (IMOHO) it lost its luster in 2003, and then it lost its listenability in 2004. It finally lost its (heart)beat on Valentine's Day in 2005.

Regarding the very first (profane) song that they ever played that you identified above ... I'm a trance and techno fanatic, and I have no clue what that song sounds like, or who the artist is. I believe that it was only played on the station that one time as an opening stunt. I missed it.

In my original hometown of the Washington D.C. area longtime classical music fans are now pouting that their heritage station WGMS was recently shoved off the blowtorch 103.5 FM frequency up there and relegated over to two weak fringe frequencies at 103.9 & 104.1 FM. It got caught up as an innocent bystander in a MASSIVE radio station reshuffling up there involving Bonneville, (all-news) WTOP, and The Washington Post. WGMS has recently been one of the TOP 5 stations in the market based on total listener audience, but it appears that it won't happen anymore on the two weaker frequencies. This could be the start of the end for classical music in the nation's capital.

THE MAJOR

 

[JustinT]

Re: POTTY Vs. PAR-TAY

> Regarding the very first (profane) song that they ever
> played that you identified above ... I'm a trance and techno
> fanatic, and I have no clue what that song sounds like, or
> who the artist is. I believe that it was only played on the
> station that one time as an opening stunt. I missed it.

Adrenaline, "Shut the F*ck Up and Dance". The lyrics are two lines: "Shut the F*ck up and dance" and "If you haven't danced yet, what the f*ck did you come for". The song doesn't exactly use a choice word, but the lyrics have nothing to do with the more vulgar use of the f-word. The songs does fit the mood of the change, as the change was to a dance format (though it's not as though there was much talk on classical-formatted WTMI).

> In my original hometown of the Washington D.C. area longtime
> classical music fans are now pouting that their heritage
> station WGMS was recently shoved off the blowtorch 103.5 FM
> frequency up there and relegated over to two weak fringe
> frequencies at 103.9 & 104.1 FM. It got caught up as an
> innocent bystander in a MASSIVE radio station reshuffling up
> there involving Bonneville, (all-news) WTOP, and The
> Washington Post. WGMS has recently been one of the TOP 5
> stations in the market based on total listener audience, but
> it appears that it won't happen anymore on the two weaker
> frequencies. This could be the start of the end for
> classical music in the nation's capital.

The future of classical music isn't just grim in Washington. On April 1st, classical music is almost guaranteed to leave Boston when the powerful signal of 102.5 WCRB is sold to Greater Media, which has already committed classical suicides in Philadelphia and Detroit. (Though classical will live on in HD-2)

But it's as if the owner of WTMI-FM, Marlin, and the owner of WCRB, Charles River, were just holding onto these frequencies until they reached their maximum value. Bonneville is one of the only companies out there that appears to actually care about the classical music format. The demos of classical stations aren't getting any younger. The format needs to appeal itself to a younger demo or powerhouses like WQXR and KDFC will be lost. The unique slogans used a publicly-owned 101.1 WRR in Dallas are a start, but the entire format needs help... fast.

 

[954]

Potty 93.1

> Adrenaline, "Shut the F*ck Up and Dance". The lyrics are two
> lines: "Shut the F*ck up and dance" and "If you haven't
> danced yet, what the f*ck did you come for". The song
> doesn't exactly use a choice word, but the lyrics have
> nothing to do with the more vulgar use of the f-word. The

So what? It was obviously chosen to be offensive,
whether it is used as a verb or just as an expletive.
No significant difference.

> songs does fit the mood of the change, as the change was to
> a dance format (though it's not as though there was much
> talk on classical-formatted WTMI).

Yes... an in-your-face repudiation of loyal
WTMI listeners who were hoping to save the
format, by playing the most offensive song
they could find. To tell them to get lost,
that their cherished station was gone.

And to maximize p.r. from the change, get people
offended.

> But it's as if the owner of WTMI-FM, Marlin, and the owner
> of WCRB, Charles River, were just holding onto these
> frequencies until they reached their maximum value.

I don't know about the others, but Woody Tanger
seemed to be happy with WTMI, until they made
such a big offer that he'd be foolish to refuse it.

I only hope that it hasn't paid off for Cox. The
sudden abandonment of Potty 93.1 for rock almost
a year ago suggests I may be right.

Meanwhile, I think Woody is happy with his
online station, beethoven.com.