104.3 HD2 is now "The Alt Project"

[DToTheJ]

You mean, the old WNEW Fm talk/rock hybrid from 1999?

 

[Johnny Rock]

Wow is it sad that seemingly no one who has any programming authority on the FM radio dial cares about today's hard rock. Rock Nation 104.3 HD2 was the only breath of fresh air in the NY Area for good foot stomping music. The alt project, still offers a fair selection of some good tunes, but you know you'll rarely hear anything heavy with this format. When the station starts mixing in Bon Jovi and the Beatles, you know that the programmers aren't on the same wavelength as you. Losing Rock Nation on HD and WRXP 101.9 almost simultaneously, is a one two punch that dedicated hard rock radio listeners in NY may not recover from. Not everybody wants to stream and download their music you know.

 

[uncamark]

Wow is it sad that seemingly no one who has any programming authority on the FM radio dial cares about today's hard rock. Rock Nation 104.3 HD2 was the only breath of fresh air in the NY Area for good foot stomping music. The alt project, still offers a fair selection of some good tunes, but you know you'll rarely hear anything heavy with this format. When the station starts mixing in Bon Jovi and the Beatles, you know that the programmers aren't on the same wavelength as you. Losing Rock Nation on HD and WRXP 101.9 almost simultaneously, is a one two punch that dedicated hard rock radio listeners in NY may not recover from. Not everybody wants to stream and download their music you know.

Do you really think that advertisers want to buy spots on a station whose listenership is also their prime shoplifters? Since when are Beavis and Butt-Head the target customers for advertisers?

 

[Barry]

WAXQ 104.3 HD2 is playing a mixture of alternative and mainstream rock (and even some electronic rock). But I have not heard anything less than 2 or 3 years old. It is not rocking nearly as hard as it did just a few days ago.
Fans of alternative are now perhaps better served by K-Rock on 92.3 HD2. They play plenty of current material, have dj's, and generally don't mix in other types of rock.
Unfortunately for fans of active rock, there does not seem to be any station offering it in New York, now that Clear Channel's Rock Nation is no longer being broadcast on 104.3 HD2. The digital display does say Rock Nation, but it is not the same programming.
Of course, fans of metal still have WSOU 89.1. They have been broadcasting very hard rock for a long time.

 

[mikerock]

You mean, the old WNEW Fm talk/rock hybrid from 1999?

Speaking of WNEW I tried listening to the wnew.com feed, what a disaster.  First try a few weeks ago there was some other format seemingly having nothing to do with the channel with a non-matching "Playing now" which is likely what should have been playing.  Seems to be working today but you must sit through a 15 second commercial upon entering and after 3 or 6 songs. (sometimes more than one commercial)  If you exit and go back, you are stuck sitting through the long commercials all over again.   The stream seems to be different for anyone that tries it.  Looks like each user get a random shuffle of songs.

Just did not like it however I do like the "The Alt Project" whose audio quality streaming sounds better than RXP's stream.

 

[frozenfiresb]

When the station starts mixing in Bon Jovi and the Beatles, you know that the programmers aren't on the same wavelength as you.

Bon Jovi and the Beatles don't fit on alternative or active rock IMHO.

 

[Johnny Rock]

Do you really think that advertisers want to buy spots on a station whose listenership is also their prime shoplifters? Since when are Beavis and Butt-Head the target customers for advertisers?

Sure sounds like a very stereotypical description of hard rock listeners to me. Don't you think that lots of middle aged adults just enjoy keeping up with the times? I'm over 50 now and I've heard every dynamite rock tune ever recorded probably a thousand times over. There's nothing like keeping up with today's fresh innovations. The beauty of HD Radio are the subchannels, which are commercial free! Advertisers are paying for the main broadcast channel where at least 15 minutes of every hour is packed with their commercials and other senseless gab. Rock Nation had the correct formula for listening pleasure-quick witty inserts from a DJ-and right back to the music!

 

[BrandonVegas]

I asked this question on the Cleveland board but they didn't understand it. Since you guys found the alt project and rock nation direct links. can anyone find the DL for the new 99X? It's WMMS-HD2 and thanks for those other links they come in handy.

 

[pjc1961]

Besides the iheartradio player link: http://www.iheart.com/live/5382/?autoplay=true (which seems to be a "simulcast" of iHeart's "The Alternative Project" with 99X local sweepers/drop-ins) -

this is the link that URL snooper gives: rtmp://cp156419.live.edgefcs.net/live which if could somehow be converted to a usable, working URL, there'd be some happy folks out there.

Full URL: rtmp://cp156419.live.edgefcs.net/live/Cle_OH_WMMS-HD2_OR@s10757?auth=daEd2axcjc7bWczbOcadMd4c2dlbnc0cFbL-bpW7u5-4q-PL0X9_aotFFom3CDvmBtAs&aifp=1234&CHANNELID=5382&CPROG=_&MARKET=CLEVELAND-OH&REQUESTOR=WMMS-HD&SERVER_NAME=p2.wmms-hd.ccomrcdn.com&SITE_ID=14894&STATION_ID=WMMS-HD&MNM=_&TYPEOFPLAY=0

Without the numerical codes embedded in the usual Clear Channel/iheartradio streaming URLs for a new stream such as WMMS-HD (99X), it's hard to come up with a working URL.

List of iheartradio streaming direct URLs as of December 2010: http://pastebin.com/YYamKGgr

 

[wpb1999]

I asked this question on the Cleveland board but they didn't understand it. Since you guys found the alt project and rock nation direct links. can anyone find the DL for the new 99X? It's WMMS-HD2 and thanks for those other links they come in handy.

Radio-Locator has all of the CC stations' direct url streams. This is WLTW's: http://www.surfmusic.de/media/wltw-fm.m3u.

So..... it is [[http://www.surfmusic.de/media]], then the station's call letters [[/wltw]], then the station's on-air band [[-fm]] and [[.m3u]]. This works on most CC station streams, in iTunes and Winamp.

 

[BrandonVegas]

Wow that pastebin link is better than the other link. Most of them work perfectly in Winamp. Thanks and happy streamripping