101.9 FM News - Now Streaming!

[DToTheJ]

http://listen.merlinmediallc.com/wemp/

 

[Bongwater]

Well, 101.9 isn't streaming, but from what everybody's saying about it, it wasn't worth killing WRXP for.

http://www.fmnewsnewyork.com/

I really haven't read up on them in a few weeks. But I didn't expect them to be a serious news powerhouse (that distinction will ALWAYS belong to WINS IMHO) So I could only assume you'd might hear more fluff and filler than hard news as WEMP's angle into this format (such as what led to our MILF controversy.) With the younger audience that FM is supposed to have, I can see why they'd want to go for stories and headlines that grab shorter attention spans.

And it seems I was right.

I could actually see this taking off in pure suburbia, like Lynnwood, Washington. Which is filled with leisurely avenues of corporate fast food joints and strip malls where nobody thinks too deeply.

But not in a MASSIVE urban center like NYC.

 

[DToTheJ]

Well, 101.9 isn't streaming...

Actually, Bongwater, on the contrary - they just started streaming 101.9 yesterday! (Chicago, too!)

 

[erwin33]

Finaly! What is the direct streaming URL for playing the stream in my own player?

 

[ThatGuyOnTheRadio]

Listening online right now-- not impressed. Anchors have a lot of starting and stopping and tripping over their words. Traffic report is the best thing I've heard yet. I'm shocked... isn't this NYC??

 

[Nightpattern]

Listening online right now-- not impressed. Anchors have a lot of starting and stopping and tripping over their words. Traffic report is the best thing I've heard yet. I'm shocked... isn't this NYC??

Ditto. Listening online in DFW during PM Drive today and there were some noticeable "where am i going" lapses. More stumbles than I thought there would be too. Just can't hear the appeal but I'm not the demo. Guess we'll see. Some of the production bumpers were pretty good...better than the product itself.

 

[nd2023]

Listening online right now-- not impressed. Anchors have a lot of starting and stopping and tripping over their words. Traffic report is the best thing I've heard yet. I'm shocked... isn't this NYC??

They have a few more weeks of experience doing traffic reports. And their traffic reports are the most comprehensive. Perhaps they should just be New York's Traffic Station: all traffic reports, all the time!

 

[radiolives]

Why is the traffic and weather on the 5's? I would figure it would be on the 9's or maybe 1's because of being at 101.9

As for the station their are a few mistakes when their talking and pauses. Also a lot of pop news, they should called the station 101.9 TMZ Radio. CBS doesn't have anything to worry about.

 

[reelyreal]

Haters always wanna hate...

Anyways,

Why is the traffic and weather on the 5's? I would figure it would be on the 9's or maybe 1's because of being at 101.9

Well, if Traffic's on the 1's on WINS and on the 8's on WCBS, it makes best sense to split the difference and do it on the fives, in between CBS New York's traffic breaks, when there's no other traffic on the air.

 

[nd2023]

Haters always wanna hate...

Anyways,

Why is the traffic and weather on the 5's? I would figure it would be on the 9's or maybe 1's because of being at 101.9

Well, if Traffic's on the 1's on WINS and on the 8's on WCBS, it makes best sense to split the difference and do it on the fives, in between CBS New York's traffic breaks, when there's no other traffic on the air.

But traffic is on the 5's on Bloomberg Radio. 101.9 should have had traffic on the 3's so that we could always be within 2 minutes of a traffic report all day (except during a Yankees game)

 

[erwin33]

Stream sounds very creaky. Lots of level issues. Sometimes the anchors hold one second of silence between the news. I don't know if this is normal or a stream issue ?
And still can't find a stream for my own winamp player. That popup is anoying. StreamTheWorld had a good direct stream URL for your own player. I don't know why they don't use it anymore because it's still a bit Emmis. Also the buffering is anoying it takes a while when the stream is playing, also on my Android Phone with TuneIn Radio.

 

[mets18]

This appears to be the URL:
rtsp://71.16.143.213/live/wemp2.stream
but I can't get it to play reliably. RealPlayer comes closest but it keeps cutting out.

 

[erwin33]

Nope, it don't work fine there must be a an mp3 or AAC stream link available.

 

[xmusicmatt]

playing fine here in VLC

 

[xmusicmatt]

Stream sounds very creaky. Lots of level issues. Sometimes the anchors hold one second of silence between the news. I don't know if this is normal or a stream issue ?

Sounds like they are taking a non processed feed from the console.. That would cause the levels to flux.

 

[erwin33]

playing fine here in VLC

That's the only player. It still strange that they not streaming in a familiar kind of streaming format like MP3 or AAC+, streams can handle every player.

 

[CTListener]

Listening here on the pop-up player, sounds fine. Unfortunately, the first story I heard was the stale Robin Quivers accident story, with a soundbite that didn't come up(!), updated with "news" of a later minor accident involving "our own Sara Lee Kessler ... thankfully, she's fine."

Sara Lee Kessler! Now there's a blast from the past...

 

[CTListener]

playing fine here in VLC

That's the only player. It still strange that they not streaming in a familiar kind of streaming format like MP3 or AAC+, streams can handle every player.

My guess is that there'll eventually be ads on the pop-up player and they want to limit the number of back doors to an advertising-free stream.

 

[erwin33]

playing fine here in VLC

That's the only player. It still strange that they not streaming in a familiar kind of streaming format like MP3 or AAC+, streams can handle every player.

My guess is that there'll eventually be ads on the pop-up player and they want to limit the number of back doors to an advertising-free stream.

For now it don't looks like they gonna use ads in that pop-up player so I don't know why it sounds so creaky, still lots of level issues and that 'ice in glass' sound effect with the travel and weather segment is too loud on the stream. For WEMP: soundprocessing isn't cheap anymore to resolve these level issues, even for free!

 

[xmusicmatt]

Listening here on the pop-up player, sounds fine. Unfortunately, the first story I heard was the stale Robin Quivers accident story, with a soundbite that didn't come up(!), updated with "news" of a later minor accident involving "our own Sara Lee Kessler ... thankfully, she's fine."

Yeah I was listening and noticed the soundbite not playing... seems like the tech issues are still there (that were mentioned prior to them streaming)... something like a sound bite is simple to get right.. don't know why their having so many problems.