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100.3 translator finally on the air?

I don't know anything about royalty rates or anything but it wouldn't surprise me if paying lower rates is the motivation to keep these mostly unheard subchannels in operation.

The format wheel has spun again, and we're on to "Classic Country" but it's not a feed that matches Foggy Mountain or anything else in the Format Lab or iHeart Radio lineup. I've only listened for a little bit but the mix of music is more upbeat and more modern than Foggy Mountain. Maybe late 70s early 80s country only? That's what it sounds like.
 
seedless said:
Isn't iHeart putting those 140 Format Lab streams on somewhat random HD2s and translators around the country in order to pay lower streaming rates?
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IIRC, the Format Lab was shut down a number of years ago.

Changing formats on HD-2 channels and translators has nothing to do with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC fees. Fees are based on the station, not the format.
 
tomservo said:
AI think Premiere Choice is offered as a standalone, fully commercialized product to other radio stations and HD2 channels,
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Premiere Choice is a menu, not a set of formats.

Premier Choice menus include specific voice track talents for different formats for insertion into the local station's own music, commercials and service elements all the way to full shows.

An example is the Ryan Seacrest product, which is offered to stations that play anything from CHR to AC music. The integration of the Seacrest material into the individual station's format is quite customizable, and can even allow for using the "show" in different dayparts.
 
Thanks for setting me straight on Premiere Choice and Format Lab. I figured I had it all wrong, lol.

I'm actually enjoying the format of the day roulette wheel. You never know what will be next.

If nothing else it turned me on to the Real Oldies online format that I didn't know existed.
 
tomservo said:
Thanks for setting me straight on Premiere Choice and Format Lab. I figured I had it all wrong, lol.

I'm actually enjoying the format of the day roulette wheel. You never know what will be next.

If nothing else it turned me on to the Real Oldies online format that I didn't know existed.
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Tomservo, I am sorry Real Oldies had to go. Who knows, maybe Classic Hits will be on the cards! Or Hip Hop! When you think about it, I kinda think this Format Wheel spinning is makes radio a bit more interesting...lol
 
In the past when a station spun the wheel of formats they would get to a point where one or two obvious holes existed... foreshadowing what the new format would be.
 
On a different topic, anyone notice TK101 lately? There music has seem to be all over the place. They play Classic Rock to Hard Rock to Alternative. The have been playing a lot of the same music 96.1 the Rocket is playing. Also, I have notice a lot of the DJ's have been removed from the the webpage. They no longer have any local dj's on their website anymore.
 
Alex_0490 said:
On a different topic, anyone notice TK101 lately? There music has seem to be all over the place. They play Classic Rock to Hard Rock to Alternative. The have been playing a lot of the same music 96.1 the Rocket is playing. Also, I have notice a lot of the DJ's have been removed from the the webpage. They no longer have any local dj's on their website anymore.
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Huh. It always sounded that way to me but I'm not a regular listener.

iHeart probably got around to cutting all the local talent and replaced it with one of their generic rock formats, which would explain the shift in tone of TK had been programmed locally before.

If that's the case, I don't think any of the big corporate stations have any local programming anymore. I know Cumulus finally killed off local talent on 94.1 and 102.7 after they bought them.
 
tomservo said:
Huh. It always sounded that way to me but I'm not a regular listener.

iHeart probably got around to cutting all the local talent and replaced it with one of their generic rock formats, which would explain the shift in tone of TK had been programmed locally before.

If that's the case, I don't think any of the big corporate stations have any local programming anymore. I know Cumulus finally killed off local talent on 94.1 and 102.7 after they bought them.
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As for Cumulus, the same thing goes for 97.5FM with the exception for the morning show. It's unfortunate but I guess it's just how things are done in the smaller markets.
 
tomservo said:
Today it's back to Real Fun Beach Radio.
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I'm one of the few folks that can listen to WDIZ and WMXC-HD 2 over the air simultaneously. The Real Fun Beach Radio formats they are playing have the same music but it's not a simulcast.

Edit to add - Have you considered that they could flip flop formats for a month then take a 1 year silent STA?
What kind of odds will you give me on that, Zach?
 
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I get my "local on" by listening to 99 Rock, WNRP 1620, Cat Country and WAAZ.

I throw in The Rocket, WUWF, 92 Zew, Wave 102.1, and Choice 106.9 for music when I'm bored.

WCOA, WEBY, WCSN, WXBM and even Jet 100.7 no longer interest me.

KSJ, WMXC, WMEZ, DLT, BLX, WRRX, WABD, TK, and Kiss haven't been on my radar in 20 years.

Oh, I have such high hopes.
 
seedless said:
I'm one of the few folks that can listen to WDIZ and WMXC-HD 2 over the air simultaneously. The Real Fun Beach Radio formats they are playing have the same music but it's not a simulcast.

Edit to add - Have you considered that they could flip flop formats for a month then take a 1 year silent STA?
What kind of odds will you give me on that, Zach?
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I wouldn't think iHeart would go through the trouble to string up an antenna on the WKRG TV tower, then do it all over again at Shelton Beach Road if they didn't have some sort of plan for this. But the format wheel thing has been going on for, what… a week now? I wouldn't bet on it one way or the other. Too risky for my blood. ;)
 
Zach, are you convinced that iHeart pulls all the strings on 100.3 and the other Red Mountain translators (BHam)?

Red Mountain isn't an independent or semi independent company that leases HD-2 space to feed THEIR translators?

Popped into my head because 99.5 isn't licensed to Red Mountain and nothing seems to be getting done with that old CP.
 
seedless said:
Zach, are you convinced that iHeart pulls all the strings on 100.3 and the other Red Mountain translators (BHam)?

Red Mountain isn't an independent or semi independent company that leases HD-2 space to feed THEIR translators?

Popped into my head because 99.5 isn't licensed to Red Mountain and nothing seems to be getting done with that old CP.
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I'm 100% convinced they're joined at the hip somehow. A lot of broadcasters use different names in different regions, or for different purposes. For example, Radio Assist Ministry is the same as Edgewater Broadcasting, and Valleydale Broadcasting is the same group of people as Reynolds Technical Associates in Birmingham. Red Mountain Broadcasting may be some third party that's closely associated with or spun off from iHeart for the sole purpose of using translators.
 
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