It's just a reworking of the stunting. Heard Keith Urban's version of Guitar Man followed by..."Get ready, something BIG is coming to 105.1 HD3". Then Back in the Saddle again Now it's Tennessee Ernie Ford "16 Tons". It's country not Yacht Rock.
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Stunting on KKGO HD3
- Thread starter ercjncpr56
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Bass Boat Country?🤣
Don't forget "Summer Place '76"!
What type of items are needed to capture, get the total #, rotation math, parse sort?
Hardware, Software?
Are you going off the stream or HD directly? I'm hearing songs from Keith Urban's new Yacht Rock inspired covers album on the stream.
And now one of the "Something Big is coming to 105.1 HD3" sweepers.
I use the M3U stream, then copy & paste into text, play in VLC as a playlist; or I could play in a browser. I prefers apps. I have thousands upon thousands of streams I inspect to get the current stream myself. I get every format's stream, since I'm already doing the labor.
#EXTINF:1,KKGO HD3 105.1 Big xSurf Levine Los Angeles, CA
#EXTINF:1,KKGO HD4 105.1 Jazz xBeatles Los Angeles, CA
#EXTINF:1,KKGO HD2/KMZT/KKOI/KOII 105.1/1260/88.3/90.1/98.3 Los Angeles/Kahului/Holualoa, CA-HI
I like a good station stunt as much as anyone, but is there really a purpose for one on an HD-3 channel that will basically be run as a public service, since advertising is likely to be minimal?
I don't understand what the holdup could possibly be. All of Saul's other HD flips usually happen fairly quick after any announcement of it. Which leads me to speculate if it's health related. He is 100 years old.
I was listening to 105.1 HD3.
maybe they are waiting for the Go Country app to be updated. It only has the main stream on it.
I use self-made batch scripts that invoke tools like curl, wget, xidel, head, sed, grep, and tr to fetch and process track data from the metadata URLs each daemon provides.
Shoutcast servers can be politely queried (e.g. without influencing listener counts) for current track information via their publicly-accessible status pages (e.g. http://47.179.46.169:8000/) or from their Shoutcast Directory API URLs, which are always /7.html (e.g. http://47.179.46.169:8000/7.html).
Icecast servers can be likewise politely queried via their xpsf XML URLs, which are always the stream mountpoint name plus .xpsf (e.g. http://ice8.securenetsystems.net/KYNO.xspf).
I rarely run these scripts except when I'm curious about a new station. And I'm not after information like rotation patterns or other programming director secret sauces. I simply code the scripts to ask every 45 seconds what's currently playing, check if it is or isn't the same song received during the last query, and if not, append it to an ASCII log file. For the pastebin link I posted earlier, I sorted the raw KKGO HD3 log file followed by deleting duplicate lines from the result to arrive at the station's total playlist.
I tuned in a few times this week. I didn’t hear enough to be sure, but it seems like they are now on a one-hour loop that features the new Keith Urban Yacht Rock album as Lance says, but also a few other classic country songs, my favorite being "Sixteen Tons" by Tennesse Ernie Ford.
The sweeper says something BIG is coming to the HD-3 channel soon. Fine and good, but at this point whatever comes will be ANTICLIMATIC at best. More than that, is it even possible to bring something BIG to an HD-3 channel? Seems somewhat contradictory to me.
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I seem to have located the answer on Youtube.
Unfortunately no date information on the reel box or in the video description. Someone in the comments section thinks it's from 1983, though.
Got SurfersEar
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My high hope is the return of truly loved KSURF that was ripped away from my number one top station preset whenever venturing onto the crazy insane streets of So Cal. Minimum yap and more 60s, 70s R&R, R&B (86 the Disco please) . KKGO FM105.1 get your head on straight….agreed?
I mentioned this a while back on another thread: You want great oldies- stream KYNO 940! Or listen on air, at night, their skywave covers most of California. Not to mention The Wolfman can be heard Fri and Sat nights 6-11. Talk about memories...
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KYNO hands down has the best oldies playlist for my tastes. They're as close to classic KRTH as it gets -- in fact better, since they play even deeper cuts. I e-mailed the owner several years ago to ask if a higher stream bitrate might ever be possible. He responded in the affirmative, saying it was an eventual goal. But alas, they're still running at the same scant 32 kbit/s they were back then. I so wish they would up their acoustic ante to 160 kbit/s AAC-LC or 192 kbit/s MP3.
How do you expect them to pay for it when its pretty clear the rest of the cluster carries the weight for the AM?
They had the money to buy a brand new 50 KW transmitter, as you know is not cheap.
Also they found the money to rebuild their ground system after some yayhoo(s) stole the copper out from under a working 50KW transmitter. Hopefully they now pull in enough revenue to amortize those investments and also pump up their bitrate.