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Christmas Present

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Element9

Looks like WJYE has been beaten to the Christmas music punch, albeit on a technicality. While checking the WHTT website, I noticed they're streaming Christmas music. This is a novel approach, for sure. For the hardcore Christmas music fans, they get what they want at WHTT dot com while the station maintains its regular format over the air at 104.1 and they probably get diary credit either way.

If Joan Doe has a diary and thinks she's listening to WHTT-FM even though she's listening to the station's on-line streaming Christmas format, it's not likely she'll make the distinction. How does Arbitron handle this situation?

Smart move on the station's part. Wonder if WJYE will offer on-line streaming of their regular format when they go all Christmas?
 
> Looks like WJYE has been beaten to the Christmas music
> punch, albeit on a technicality. While checking the WHTT
> website, I noticed they're streaming Christmas music.

I think it's been running for about a week or so now, not really sure...
D'oh! AND I DIDN'T POST THAT NEWS HERE?
Thank-you for posting the info before I eventually got around to it.
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"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
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Ho-ho-ho

Interesting move on their part. I heard promos for the stream on their air today, so they're promoting it as well. Somebody over there is pretty web savvy, huh?
 
Egg Nog Went On Sale This Week

> Looks like WJYE has been beaten to the Christmas music
> punch, albeit on a technicality. While checking the WHTT
> website, I noticed they're streaming Christmas music.

I noticed our grocery stores started carrying Egg Nog this week, the earliest they've ever managed it. The Pittsford Dairy started their production the week of Halloween (they're one of those dairies that still sells milk in glass bottles). Could the Xmas music be far behind that?

Local Wegmans stores put up their Christmas trees a month ago along with a sign of explanation suggesting some people liked to do their shopping early (liars). I walked into Chase-Pitkins in Canandaigua Friday and was assaulted with Anne Murray doing Christmas music. Sears has giant blue ornaments hanging from their ceilings. Wal-Mart started stocking Christmas stuff in late AUGUST!

Christmas music formats seem to work for stations that spend the other 10 months of the year near the bottom of the FM station ratings. The major stations seem to wait longer. What used to be one station per market became two in a lot of places and I fear we could be getting into an Xmas music arms race.

Maybe they could air the Robert Goulet songs on the left channel and their traditional format on the right and sell it as multicasting!
 
WHTT Xmas Secret Revealed

Two things that make the Internet a tool of evil:

1) WHTT's Christmas music channel has a rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas made up of bad impressions of 1970s TV shows (including Archie Bunker!) That is a Saddam-like war crime. Someone at WHTT picked that song and put in on their queue. Ewwww.

2) It's a syndication-hybrid operation. You can read all about it on www.customchannels.net (note the exciting and innovative company name). You use their online song selection tool for around 100 songs in the playlist, send them some liners and promo mp3s and they generate a stream from it and deliver it through their own internal server subcontracting. They all don't run the same actual program stream - it's closer to the iPod shuffle mode concept. You pick the songs and they make a "playlist" and deliver it. They make it clear that even stations with corporate parents that forbid streaming can play because the stations don't actually do any of the streaming themselves.

The same company is also programming jukebox-style formats for HD subchannels and station website streaming. Same customization principle applies.

BTW, the stream tops out at 32kbps. Hardly a high fidelity experience. CustomChannels should be doing a lot better than that these days. Radio Romania International sounds better.
 
Sound Quality

> BTW, the stream tops out at 32kbps. Hardly a high fidelity
> experience. CustomChannels should be doing a lot better
> than that these days. Radio Romania International sounds
> better.

I'm listening to the stream right now, and I think it sounds pretty good. In fact, I think it sounds at least as good as satellite. I have Adelphia, Windows Media Player 9.0 set to autodetect speed, and the latest version of Java. Now, I don't have a surround-sound speaker system, but they're better than the $6.00 "hi-fidelity" types that come with your average Dell, Compaq, or Gateway.

100 songs sounds a little light, but I guess that's around 360 minutes, or 6 hours. That's a lot longer than I'll be listening.
 
Re: Egg Nog Went On Sale This Week

> > Looks like WJYE has been beaten to the Christmas music
> > punch, albeit on a technicality. While checking the WHTT
> > website, I noticed they're streaming Christmas music.
>
> I noticed our grocery stores started carrying Egg Nog this
> week, the earliest they've ever managed it.

This line alone was enough to crack me up. The rest of the post was optional reading by comparison. Nicely crafted.
 
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