I was playing around with the Audacy app this evening and I've noticed that the Audacy Original stations that recently turned off their HD streams have now also been removed from the app itself and redirects to curated stations of similar formats...i.e. KFRC now redirects to The 60s, KIFM San Diego is now Soundscapes Smooth Jazz, The Angry Playlist, which was harder edged classic rock is now Metal Mayhem, and both Classic Live 105 San Francisco and Classic Alt San Diego both redirect to Roots of Alternative. While their logos and branding still show the original stations these are now just like Pandora stations with up to 6 skips. The problem is that the skips do nothing so you are just stuck with Audacy's choice of rotation. If you leave the station and come back, it just drops you right in the same place that you were when you left. I noticed that KROQ's "Roq of the 80s" is still streaming live. I'm not sure if that's still on HD in Los Angeles or if they just haven't gotten around to butchering it off the app yet. Audacy is messing everything up pretty bad.
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Audacy has dropped a lot of original stations from their app (in addition to turning them off on HD)
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Roq of The 80's is one of the few music HD2's left. It was dropped in Phoenix, but still on here in the LA area.
Thank you for letting me know. In San Diego I am too far away to get KROQ in HD, but I always listen when in the LA area.
I used to listen a lot at work to Dale! HD3 online, which ID's itself as Fort Worth/Dallas, but recently I found that channel has resorted to simply playing the same songs repeatedly 24/7, with no new adds that I can detect. I tested it for a few days & I heard the same exact songs at the same exact time every day! Most of the time the "last played" list doesn't update or just lists the title of the song without the artist.
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