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Internet ad confusion?

Unless you use third party apps like TuneIn, you are generally stuck in the ecosystem of the company/network that owns the station you are listening too. The company I work for in Australia asks you to fill out a form when you download the app. That way you are super served with location (local) specific content, even if you are listening to one of our stations in another market. It is rather annoying on my account, as I would rather hear local ads from the market I have tuned into.
 
well, there's some overlap in markets that spill over into other markets, and the New York City/Philadelphia spill over in New Jersey was covered already but here the spill over of many markets that cover the circle that is the DMA for the Dallas-Fort Worth listening area.

Northern counties overlap with Sherman/Denison/Ada, OK. Paris/Sulphur Springs/Greenville, & Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK markets.

Eastern counties overlap with Paris/Sulphur Springs Greenville, Tyler/Longview & Waco/Killeen/Temple/Bryan markets.

Western Markets overlap with Abilene/Sweetwater & Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK market.

Southern Markets overlap with Abilene/Sweetwater, Waco/Killeen/Temple/Bryan and the Tyler/Longview markets

so yeah, the only counties in the DFW market that don't overlap may be the core 5 counties (Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton & Rockwall counties).
 
So, how about, "A proud partner of this station?" Problem solved. Would that make WPHT, WFAN or Helix Wireless unhappy?

I realize that this issue isn't worthy of two heated forum pages, but it's interesting to me that the radio experts (and I mean that sincerely, not sarcastically) on this board are so insistent that no one on their side of the transmitter could never, ever possibly do something that isn't 100% perfect.

Last year I posted that, for MONTHS, there was a loud AC hum on a station's Internet stream. Again, I got pages of blowback. Eventually someone on the board contacted the station and in two days the hum disappeared.

I just don't get it.
 
wadio said:
I realize that this issue isn't worthy of two heated forum pages, but it's interesting to me that the radio experts (and I mean that sincerely, not sarcastically) on this board are so insistent that no one on their side of the transmitter could never, ever possibly do something that isn't 100% perfect
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All I'm doing is explaining why you heard what you heard. Nothing more. It is what it is.

I'm sure the advertiser appreciates all the extra attention you've given their brand.

wadio said:
Last year I posted that, for MONTHS, there was a loud AC hum on a station's Internet stream. Again, I got pages of blowback. Eventually someone on the board contacted the station and in two days the hum disappeared.
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Perfect example. Something bothers you and you alone, but you refused to do the most basic thing and contact the station. So someone in Alaska who doesn't listen to the station did what you should have done. If something bothers you, contact the person directly. Don't post on a message board and expect someone involved to know.
 
Similarly, I was streaming an Audacy Philly station on their app last night, I am visiting central Pennsylvania so I heard central Pennsylvania commercials. Makes sense to me.
 
TheBigA said:
All I'm doing is explaining why you heard what you heard. Nothing more. It is what it is.

I'm sure the advertiser appreciates all the extra attention you've given their brand.



Perfect example. Something bothers you and you alone, but you refused to do the most basic thing and contact the station. So someone in Alaska who doesn't listen to the station did what you should have done. If something bothers you, contact the person directly. Don't post on a message board and expect someone involved to know.
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My broad point is that streaming radio suffers from a lot of inattention -- just pointing it out. Excuse it if you wish. Rick Sklar must be rolling over in his grave.
 
wadio said:
My broad point is that streaming radio suffers from a lot of inattention -- just pointing it out. Excuse it if you wish. Rick Sklar must be rolling over in his grave.
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Rick Sklar didn't live long enough to see streaming radio. If he ran it the way he intended to run SupeRadio, it would have had similar issues.

The more people you get in a process, the more opportunity for things to fall through the cracks. If you knew all of the other things you use every day (outside of radio) that suffer from the same issues, you'd go crazy. Consider the shooting in Butler. Things fall through the cracks all the time.
 
I just noticed that there's a "Over-the-air stations on the internet" forum. I should have posted there. Will do next time.
 
A brief follow-up. Last week I emailed WPHT to ask about the Helix Wireless spot and received a friendly reply speculating (but not insisting) that running the spot in the NY area stream was intentional. However about a day and a half later the spot disappeared and I haven't heard it since.

My speculation is that it was moved to WFAN's NY area stream where it belongs. But of course I have no proof. What I do believe, contrary to what I often read on this board, is that people do occasionally make mistakes and that this might possibly have been one.
 
wadio said:
My speculation is that it was moved to WFAN's NY area stream where it belongs. But of course I have no proof. What I do believe, contrary to what I often read on this board, is that people do occasionally make mistakes and that this might possibly have been one.
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My speculation would be you were supposed to hear a commercial for Helix based on where you were located when you were streaming the app but you were not supposed to hear a commercial with the call letters of another radio station (which was their mistake).
 
Larry said:
My speculation would be you were supposed to hear a commercial for Helix based on where you were located when you were streaming the app but you were not supposed to hear a commercial with the call letters of another radio station (which was their mistake).
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Maybe, but the whole commercial is now gone, not just the tag. I don't listen to WFAN so I don't know if it's now running on their stream, or if it was there before it disappeared from the WPHT stream. My guess is, if they tagged it with WFAN, that's where it was supposed to be.
 
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