Don't look now, but just in time for the Holiday season, 101.1 More FM has added a "Listen Live" button to their webpage http://www.morefmphilly.com
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More FM- WBEB Streaming Once Again
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This is the first time I've heard it post-1970s. After years of hearing tape-recorded aircheques from the mighty Stereo 101~One's beautiful music golden era, it's really sad to hear what WDVR has devolved into. (R.I.P.) Anyways, for purposes of completion more than anything, I'm currently downloading a block of the stream for the collection. Might as well.
Must be low-bitrate AAC. The high end sounds nice and metallic.
This is the first time I've heard it post-1970s. After years of hearing tape-recorded aircheques from the mighty Stereo 101~One's beautiful music golden era, it's really sad to hear what WDVR has devolved into. (R.I.P.) Anyways, for purposes of completion more than anything, I'm currently downloading a block of the stream for the collection. Might as well.
Must be low-bitrate AAC. The high end sounds nice and metallic.
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The long-time owner, Jerry Lee, discontinued the audio stream several years ago, saying the royalty costs were too high. WBEB is an unusual stand-alone major radio station, not owned by any big corporation. I suppose now that Lee is no longer the one in charge of day-to-day operations, the new co-owners have decided that they'll miss some office listening if they're not streaming.
So full stream ahead, despite the costs.
I admire WBEB for tagging the end of each song with a pre-recorded artist and title. For the life of me, I don't understand radio stations that play song after song with nobody telling us who's singing what, either because the DJ isn't supposed to (too mundane? too time-consuming?) or there's no live DJ on duty. Yes, I guess you could look it up on the website, if the website carries the info. And some radios have read-outs that list the song and title. But if you're working or otherwise distracted, who's going to remember to look it up later?
So full stream ahead, despite the costs.
I admire WBEB for tagging the end of each song with a pre-recorded artist and title. For the life of me, I don't understand radio stations that play song after song with nobody telling us who's singing what, either because the DJ isn't supposed to (too mundane? too time-consuming?) or there's no live DJ on duty. Yes, I guess you could look it up on the website, if the website carries the info. And some radios have read-outs that list the song and title. But if you're working or otherwise distracted, who's going to remember to look it up later?
It's not so much about office listening, as it is all about the app! You're really going to stay the lone radio station in a major market without joining IHeartRadio, or having a phone app of your own? When even the smallest 10-watt College or High School radio station has one?
Regarding the streaming of this station, went to my home country in South America to spend the Holidays, tried to listen to WBEB from there and the streaml seems to be geo restricted as all I could hear was an announcement saying "WBEB More FM is not available in your current location".
Makes you wonder how much a website knows about us, just from our clicking it. I know some CBC audio streams aren't available to Americans. And KFMB-FM in San Diego restricts its audio steam to only San Diego County. How could it know that? Do people in Fallbrook get the stream but those in Mission Viejo don't?
They use the location data on the connection by the user.
They are geofencing. Some do it to avoid liability for foreign music licensing fees, and some do it to restrict streaming to just their local market to avoid listeners who are not of any value to the station.
Exactly, and actually it's quite easy to do, only thing is I found it weird coming from a major market station like WBEB.
Since few stations get any benefit from out of market streaming, and the cost could be considerable for well-done "famous" stations, they must figure that the savings are more important than any out of survey area listening.
It worked fine for me over the weekend in Hanover. NH. Apparently WBEB's geofencing is only for out-of-US listeners. The playlist is pretty much standard AC. I have no idea why out-of-market listeners would even want to tune in, unless they were ex-Philadelphians longing for a taste of home.
Beleive it or not in some countries radio sucks big time. In my particular case I wanted to show some broadcaster friends an example of a clean station.
What country would that be?
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