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Cumulus/CC/iHeartradio deal and smartphone blackouts

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mp3trojan

It was announced in December that all Cumulus stations are going to be on iHeart...cool. But in the interim it seems that all Cumulus stations have blocked their streams from being heard on TuneIn and Wunder USING 3G or 4G only. They still work when connected to WiFi(unstable at best) but it still loads. I am about to go nuts not being able to hear The Ticket at work. I live east of Rockwall and cannot pick up any of their terrestrial signals inside the building...or outside.

I sent an email to Cat asking whats up and thats when I learned of this iHeart deal. He wrote :

Yes, sorry. The company has entered into an agreement with iHeart Radio. SO
in advance of that, all other third party streaming apps are being closed
off. However, I don't have a hard start date on when Ticket and all the
other Cumulus stations actually start streaming via iHeart Radio.


Anyone have any info on this? Missed the Musers campout this time because of this. Such radio gold!

PS: Why don't the Ticket just get a full power license instead of that unstable cocophony of signals that no one east of Ray Hubbard can pick up?

Thanks for having me on the boards. :)
 
There must be some sort of holdout from Cumulus, because Greater Media stations announced this in February and were on iHeart within two months.
 
Thanks for the reply

But I don't get the reason for cutting off a large section of their listeners. Aren't they losing revenue by doing this, or is this a way to get ppl to talk about it like when a new station comes on or changes formats they play the same song over and over for weeks? Who's winning in this deal? Cell carriers I guess. Conserving bandwidth? It just doesn't make any sense on any level of thinking.
 
wpb1999 said:
There must be some sort of holdout from Cumulus, because Greater Media stations announced this in February and were on iHeart within two months.
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It has to do with SweetJack. The deal requires Clear Channel to start promoting SweetJack while Cumulus goes onto iHeartRadio. My understanding is that SweetJack hasn't been completely rolled out yet. The original plan was that Cumulus would go onto iHeartRadio around the same time Greater Media arrived. Then, they said it would be sometime this month. I guess they're technically still on schedule, but I was under the impression it would be closer to May 1.
 
I knew about the Sweetjack thing. Good, I hope they make a lot of money, but why is the listener being punished for this?

Steadily depressing, low-down, mind-messing, working without the ticket blues. 8)
 
Thanks for the info. I've been trying to get an explanation from the station for over a month now but no one seems to know anything. I was on vacation in Florida last week and missed the campout as well. I had to work remotely for this first two days so I was able to stream from my laptop but I wasn't about to bring it to the beach Wed-Sat. Instead, I tuned into 95.9 and listened while drinking beer and soaking up rays. One good thing about this was Thursday morning after one final and failed attempt at the Ticket I went to 95.9 just as Justin began to interview one of my good friends about his music and an upcoming show that weekend.
 
No problem. I suggested to Cat that perhaps they massage the stream help page on the site. So far nothing. Because of this I bought Wunder for $8 for nothing. Told him $8 was wasn't gonna break me but it would have gone a long way buying 1 beer at Gexa ::)
 
Weird, I was in Vegas last week and listened to the camp out on Wunder using 3G, but I did have to re-start the stream a couple of times.
 
I'm surprised the Cumulus stations aren't on IHeart already. Univision, EMF and the non-com stations they made deals with are there. WGN went on right away after they were announced.

Perhaps it's Cumulus' streaming infrastructure, and they have to change it to accommodate IHeart. The main advantage in this case would likely be that the Cumulus streams will be more stable and sound significantly better (the streaming CC stations on IHeart sound great!). I don't mind so much stations being on IHeart, since I think it's a really good, stable and well-organized phone app, and I have it (along with TuneIn) on my phone already.
 
easttxtv said:
mp3trojan said:
@easttxtv

System will not allow me to reply to PM's

Thanks. A bunch!!!!!!
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I have a solution for you, how can I message you about it if no PMs at your work?  Sorry about that, just trying to help....
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I got your PM. I was replying to you here. This board will not let me reply. New user, it says "SECURITY WARNING".  I got it, and again...many thanks!!!
 
I'm thinking much of this is due to cumulus dragging their feet into the 21st century. Its taking something they really don't like to spend after they acquire a station...money.

Like a wise man once said "It takes money to make money". I've been listening to iHeart streams at home on my iPod Touch and XBOX360 for quite awhile and the sound quality is excellent. Why mess around and alienate their loyal listeners around the country? If this is all about sweetjack, which is turning into a cluster you know what for Cumulus already, why even continue w/ it?
 
Can you pick up the station at your home? If so, download shoutcast and you can stream it to yourself using your own computer. Then connect to your home, and listen away.

But yes I agree with Lancer. ^^^
 
radi0avenger said:
Can you pick up the station at your home? If so, download shoutcast and you can stream it to yourself using your own computer. Then connect to your home, and listen away.

But yes I agree with Lancer. ^^^
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No I cannot. If it were a full power station sure no prob. Have a FM/HD tuner that's connected to a deep fringe TV antenna on a 50' tower with a pre-amp and still cannot reliably receive their signal...I know, right? I'm only 65 miles from Cedar Hill. ???
 
mp3trojan said:
No I cannot. If it were a full power station sure no prob. Have a FM/HD tuner that's connected to a deep fringe TV antenna on a 50' tower with a pre-amp and still cannot reliably receive their signal...I know, right? I'm only 65 miles from Cedar Hill. ???
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You are not able to pick up The Ticket on 1310 AM? According to the station's coverage map, it should come in more than fine during daylight hours and should still have a strong signal throughout Rockwall and even into Hunt counties at night. See: http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=ktck&x=0&y=0&sr=Y&s=C
 
dismuke said:
mp3trojan said:
No I cannot. If it were a full power station sure no prob. Have a FM/HD tuner that's connected to a deep fringe TV antenna on a 50' tower with a pre-amp and still cannot reliably receive their signal...I know, right? I'm only 65 miles from Cedar Hill. ???
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You are not able to pick up The Ticket on 1310 AM?  According to the station's coverage map, it should come in more than fine during daylight hours and should still have a strong signal throughout Rockwall and even into Hunt counties at night.   See: http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=ktck&x=0&y=0&sr=Y&s=C

I live in western Hopkins county but i'm on the highest point of elevation on I-30 between Ft.Worth and Little Rock. Climb my BIG tower and I can see into 3 counties...no kidding on the top of a hill. I can barely hear them during the day and not at all at night. Heard 1700 fine when they were on there. I have a full wave dipole..yeah you heard me right, a full wave inverted vee hooked to my Yaesu HF rig and still cannot hear 1310 well. But I can hear KMOX and WWL during the day. 10k watts, is 10k watts, is 10k watts. Like I said I wished they would just get a full power license...Another 50k watt AM station in Dallas is not gonna happen, so they need to pull a WBAP FM
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