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Mobile What's going on with 92.5?

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In recent days, the 92.5 signal is silent, although WZEW-HD3 is still pumping out the "Soul" format, which is basically a network feed with NO local ads, liners, or even a station ID.
I know the stations have been through a lot in the last few months/years, but are they getting ready to cast off 92.5?

Radio itself is a dumpster fire, but this one especially stings since WZEW/WNSP is a local company that has been dealt some devastating blows in the last few years.
 
It's certainly their most neglected station. I didn't even know it had a Facebook page or website until I searched for contact info. Turns out someone on their FB page asked why it was off 2 weeks ago and never got an answer, so that's definitely concerning.

There's a contact form on the website so I sent a message there and via (barf) Facebook Messenger, but I doubt I'll get a response. I sent an e-mail to their GM a few years ago asking if they could put me in touch with the engineer regarding the loss of song title info on the the HD feeds but never heard back from anyone. Their 92.1 HD1 has been stuck with the same song/artist info for like six months, lol. And the HD2 and HD3 just says "HD artist" and "HD title" or something like that.
 
92.5 the Soul also have satellite issues like one time, this station has been down for only almost a week before it went back up. And on the Sound of Mobile app, thier song history hasn't been updated but its other 3 sister stations such as The Crab are still up to date.

92.5 the Soul is still a use as an escape from southern blues on WLDT during Saturdays. Speaking of switch, The Soul plays some of the songs WLDT doesn't play as usual unless you mention The Sweat Hotel.

I just want The Soul to get as much attention as The Crab with real DJs, local ads, and a new station ID. The Soul is really better than WDLT and WBLX (during Steve Harvey Morning show).
 
at one time Tim Camp was the engineer. He had friends in the market who would help if he was out of town. With Tim's passing, no idea now.
I should move back to Mobile and help....
 
kokoroanime said:
I just checked the HD Radio of WZEW. The Crab seens to show the song and artist info while The Soul only has "The SOUL" on both song and artist info.
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Does your radio show album art on HD stations? I can't quite figure out if ZEW is sending that information like the iHeart stations do, or my car's radio is filling it in with Soundhound. I know it does this occasionally because sometimes I get album art on analog stations (!) out of the blue, and I'm like 99% sure it can't be done with RDS.

I ask because I was getting artist/song and cover art off and on even when the HD subchannels were just saying "hd2 artist / hd2 song" or whatever. It wasn't consistent but I couldn't tell if it was WZEW or my radio.
 
tomservo said:
Does your radio show album art on HD stations? I can't quite figure out if ZEW is sending that information like the iHeart stations do, or my car's radio is filling it in with Soundhound. I know it does this occasionally because sometimes I get album art on analog stations (!) out of the blue, and I'm like 99% sure it can't be done with RDS.

I ask because I was getting artist/song and cover art off and on even when the HD subchannels were just saying "hd2 artist / hd2 song" or whatever. It wasn't consistent but I couldn't tell if it was WZEW or my radio.
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My truck doesn't show the logos and the album covers.

I haven't checked the FM translators for The Crab and Soul. I was focusing too much on HD.

Yeah the RDS for The Soul isn't fixed yet and on the Sound of Mobile App, the album color, artist name and the song name aren't even appearing while the station plays. This has been like that for a few months since the last album cover shown.
 
Since "The Soul" is a canned format, that information is either not available or being translated to the RDS feed. And there are still no local liners (or even IDs) either.

The Crab is still run and programmed locally, so all that lines up.

Before the "hack" in 2021 that took down their stations, The Soul functioned well with RDS info and album art on HD. I want to say it came back at some point in 2022, but I can't recall...
 


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