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Bob Pantano Dance Party is now on 98.1-HD2

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Bob Pantano is now programming WOGL-HD2 with his Dance Party format. 60s/70s/80s rhythmic oldies. As WOGL moves further into the 90s, their HD2 is keeping their older listeners. The live broadcast is still on the main HD1 on Saturday nights.

However, it’s no longer simulcast at the shore on 96.1 and 93.1. A lot of Philly area residents go down the shore in the summer, and Bob Pantano DJs at several clubs at the shore in the summer. WOGL doesn’t quite make it to the shore towns strong enough for the average person to not tune out, and forget about the HD2 making it there without a high gain antenna.

The Philly HD2 stations are the best out of all the markets I’ve observed.
 
I'm not sure that was a good idea to discontinue the shore feeds. Did you notice the WOGL website now? It looks like any other radio.com website. Almost no identity of its own.
 
I have never listened to WOGL. I guess I've been angry at CBS radio all the way back to that fall day in 1987 when I went back to my dorm room at Trenton State College and didn't hear WCAU-FM but, instead Oldies 98. (I'm also angry at Radio One for taking away Y-100 &WDRE. I didn't like Eagle-106 going away either.) I guess my anger needs to go away for CBS-radio now that they don't exist anymore. But to tell you the truth, unless I'm listening to WMMR or KYW on the actual radio, I'm listening to Sirius or streaming WMMR's sister station, WBZ-FM the Sports Hub up in Boston. It's like listening to WIP with callers with wicked strong accents.

I find it interesting that since WOGL added the '80s songs, they're actually playing songs now that would have also been played on Hot Hits. If they start adding '90s music, they'll be playing songs that up until now, never played on 98.
 
Might be time to let grudges go. Considering it's people who make decisions (and business ones at that), and people turn over (entire companies turn over in some cases), it's a bit on the petty side to nurse grudges decades after the fact. And to seemingly be proud of that.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Might be time to let grudges go. Considering it's people who make decisions (and business ones at that), and people turn over (entire companies turn over in some cases), it's a bit on the petty side to nurse grudges decades after the fact. And to seemingly be proud of that.
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Eh, I don’t need WOGL. I got me some Siriusxm.
 
Maybe he could lease a translator at the shore to relay 98.1-HD2. It’s definitely possible to receive WOGL in HD in Wildwood with a good antenna, and off air reception would be required outside the 54 dBu.
 
I like when they mix in the early 90s stuff between midnight-2am (usually)
 
nkd said:
Maybe he could lease a translator at the shore to relay 98.1-HD2. It’s definitely possible to receive WOGL in HD in Wildwood with a good antenna, and off air reception would be required outside the 54 dBu.
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It's probably possible to receive WOGL and WOGL-HD2 down the shore on the radio.com app too.
 
Bill_W said:
It's probably possible to receive WOGL and WOGL-HD2 down the shore on the radio.com app too.
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I say if you're going to listen to the radio... then listen to the radio. Everything is an "app" now. Its annoying and not everyone actually has a "smartphone" believe it or not :0)
 
ChrisKanakis said:
I say if you're going to listen to the radio... then listen to the radio. Everything is an "app" now. Its annoying and not everyone actually has a "smartphone" believe it or not :0)
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Got a computer with high speed internet? It works on radio.com as well. I listen to WMMR on the old fashioned radio but, since I'm originally from Boston and couldn't care what they're discussing on WIP, I stream WBZ-FM to get my fix of sports talk and I live probably 300 miles from their transmitter.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Apps aren’t remotely annoying any more than a single-purpose box taking up space is.
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Most of the space in that "single-purpose box" is the speaker, which even an app needs to sound decent. Playing an app through a phone speaker sounds not much better than a transistor radio, so the space the radio took up is now taken by a Bluetooth (or hard-wired) speaker, if fidelity matters at all.
 
JBraddock said:
Most of the space in that "single-purpose box" is the speaker, which even an app needs to sound decent. Playing an app through a phone speaker sounds not much better than a transistor radio, so the space the radio took up is now taken by a Bluetooth (or hard-wired) speaker, if fidelity matters at all.
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I tend to use earphones more often. But the speaker and phone can stream books…podcasts…my music…any number of sources of news or entertainment. A radio? Not so much.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
I tend to use earphones more often. But the speaker and phone can stream books…podcasts…my music…any number of sources of news or entertainment. A radio? Not so much.
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...and the radio goes on at the push of a power and preset button, without anyone scooping up any of your data. Two different devices with their own strengths.

The reason satellite radio is strong in cars is the simplicity of operation and the relative reliability of reception. Eventually, "connected cars" will make setting up streaming easy (or simply pre-configured) and bring parity to the dashboard along with terrestrial and satellite. But not quite yet.
 
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