Joni Mitchell and Neil Young??????
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WBLS HD2 Stunting
- Thread starter JoeBenjamin
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That tree is growing in the forest before it falls.
Not BIN. That was (and still is) on iHeart's WWPR-HD3.
how can we listen online?
Technically this would be program testing as opposed to stunting. Mediaco likely just preparing the signal for a potential broker (or showing off its coverage to someone who is interested). Same thing going on right now with 93.1 WPAT-FM which is running the primary feed programming on about a minute delay.
Some broadcasting companies put their HD streams online, others don't. Wait and see.
I recall there used to be an HD2 in New York that broadcast in Chinese. I'm surprised this no longer exists. I realize there are a couple of weak AM signals (one in Mandarin, the other Cantonese), but the population of people from China in this area is quite large. It seems many of the older immigrants from China are not fluent in English.
Radio can't wait to pull the plug on older listeners. If the Chinese-dominant listeners are all elderly, they're not salable to advertisers. If the long-term goal is still to monetize HD, the last thing they'd want to put there is a format with 75-to-grave listeners.
Why couldn't they have kept airing WLIB on HD2, as noted above, to accomplish the same thing though?
So radio shouldn’t focus on paying the bills?
WLIB is no longer co-owned with WQHT/WBLS. Emmis owns 1190. Mediaco owns 97.1/107.5. While Emmis is a minority owner in Mediaco, they are no longer involved at all in the operations of the FMs.
I always thought of "Program Test" as a description of broadcasts by a station with a CP prior to regular broadcasting and application for license.
An HD is a tacitly licensed function of a station, and would not need a Program Test. Maybe "demo mode" is better.
It's almost as much of a stunt as a demo. They seem to be playing virtually the entire catalog from both Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. They alternate one random album cut from Neil, then one from Joni, back and forth between the two with silence between the songs, no talk or liners, not even a TOH legal ID on last check. Every song has the appropriate Artist-Title info displaying on the screen but no album art or station logo.
Maybe they're planning a new format of all Canadian folk artists. 🥱
Or artists who don't get played on Spotify any more? 🤔
Maybe they're planning a new format of all Canadian folk artists. 🥱
Or artists who don't get played on Spotify any more? 🤔
The album art on WBLS-HD2 is still showing the logo of 1190 WLIB, which it used to simulcast.
WBLS-HD2 seems to have finally transitioned to new programming with a Notorious B.I.G. tribute, including imaging for it. Oops, f-bomb just dropped in the lyrics. No station name heard yet. Neil Young is still scrolling as the artist name on the display.
Are HD subchannels subject to the same content limitation -- language, primarily -- as the main signals?
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