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Pulse 87 Online featuring live team of DJ's

I thought Star and Buc Wild are going to be on another station soon. Their show has a high price, and didn't fit in with the Pulse dance format, so Mega Media canceled the show sometime in October 2008. I doubt an Internet station with no advertising revenue yet would hire them. I liked the commercial free music in the mornings, but Internet radio has no morning drive peak, its peak is during the day. Pulse 87 isn't competing with the New York City stations anymore, it's competing with the likes of ElectricFM, iPartyRadio, Fusion Radio Chicago, DI.fm, Energy 98, etc
 
..soo do these announcers get paid? If the do, where is the revenue coming from if there is no advertising? Surely a website can't generate the cash to fully staff this station as they say they are going to?

This is great news, but how are they doing it?

Does Energy 98 pay their talent? or is it just a hobby? Maybe there is considerable more revenue able to be generated than I can imagine with an online radio station? (and consequently more expenses more listeners that tune in?)
 
I don't know the specifics of Pulse 87, but I know that some other Internet stations pay their talent for voicetracking.

The DJs on Pulse 87 definitely have a love for the music, they didn't flee Mega Media when that ship was sinking.
 
Nick said:
I thought Star and Buc Wild are going to be on another station soon. Their show has a high price, and didn't fit in with the Pulse dance format, so Mega Media canceled the show sometime in October 2008. I doubt an Internet station with no advertising revenue yet would hire them.
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Star (minus Buc Wild, who's in some legal trouble currently) along with White Trash Helene are on www.shovio.com, Mon.-Fri. 7:30-9:00pm Eastern Time (recently expanded from their original air time of 8-9pm ET). Basically a streaming video show with a viewers live chat built in so the viewers can respond to the show's hosts & other viewers as it plays. The channel also features former NYC radio host "The Radio Chick" Leslie Gold, along with Goumba Johnny (now on WKTU), Sid Rosenberg (now on WQAM Miami), Karith Foster (formerly on "Imus In The Morning") & Valerie Smaldone (formerly of WLTW "106.7 Lite FM").

http://www.shovio.com/en/professionals/star/ & Star's podcast page dating back to his 1st Shovio.com show on January 12, 2010:
http://www.shovio.com/en/o-ondemand?

Registering for a free membership may able you to gain access to other features...looks like the podcast page is open to anyone. The quickest link to the old shows is via the "Play" button; the FLV & M4V podcasts take a while to download and offer more precise rewind/fast forward features than the "Play" button allows. One of the odd things about the video on Star's "shocast" is that it's a reverse image-everything appears "backwards" from the way it should appear.
 
I can't blame Shovio for trying with such a loaded talent roster. Hopefully, their sales department is kept busy, or they'll be laid to rest right next to eYada in the ol' cyber-cemetery...

I believe Jay Diamond is also on Shovio, or am I thinking of UBA.tv, where Bob Grant recently hosted a show.
 
Pulse 87 in NYC may soon be a thing of the past. In the FCC filings today, the station's owners filed for a flash cut on TV channel 6. That means one day it is an analog radio station the next day it's a useless digital LPTV station and all you will hear is noise on 87.7.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
 
MickeyD said:
Pulse 87 in NYC may soon be a thing of the past. In the FCC filings today, the station's owners filed for a flash cut on TV channel 6. That means one day it is an analog radio station the next day it's a useless digital LPTV station and all you will hear is noise on 87.7.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Have you read anything this forum over the past 6 months?
 
BiggieFats said:
MickeyD said:
Pulse 87 in NYC may soon be a thing of the past. In the FCC filings today, the station's owners filed for a flash cut on TV channel 6. That means one day it is an analog radio station the next day it's a useless digital LPTV station and all you will hear is noise on 87.7.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Have you read anything this forum over the past 6 months?
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Yes I have.
 
MickeyD said:
BiggieFats said:
MickeyD said:
Pulse 87 in NYC may soon be a thing of the past. In the FCC filings today, the station's owners filed for a flash cut on TV channel 6. That means one day it is an analog radio station the next day it's a useless digital LPTV station and all you will hear is noise on 87.7.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Have you read anything this forum over the past 6 months?
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Yes I have.
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Then you will have noticed that 87.7 is now a Russian and Caribbean station. Pulse 87 went off 87.7 forever on October 30, 2009 at 5PM when Mega Media went bankrupt. The current incarnation of Pulse 87 is online only and Mega Media has no involvement.
Island Broadcasting had a construction permit to flash cut WNYZ to digital well before Pulse 87 even existed. They don't have to use the construction permit. There still is no deadline for LPTV to go digital.
 
Nick said:
MickeyD said:
BiggieFats said:
MickeyD said:
Pulse 87 in NYC may soon be a thing of the past. In the FCC filings today, the station's owners filed for a flash cut on TV channel 6. That means one day it is an analog radio station the next day it's a useless digital LPTV station and all you will hear is noise on 87.7.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Have you read anything this forum over the past 6 months?
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Yes I have.
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Actually, I subscribe to teh FCC's Daily Digest and the owners just applied for the channel 6 flash cut.They were originally going to use a UHF channel. I don't know why they want to do digital TV on channel 6 it doesn't work well with high power TV stations. We have a system that doesn't work that well and it doesn't do multipath. COFDM on the other hand that the rest of the world usesworld, thrives of multipath. I was a member of NBC's committee back in the early 90's that tried to get it changed but the CEA got their way and now we have a system that doesn't work.

This is alright though because the ALL NEW FCC is planning on taking teh television spectrum and giving it the wirelsss people. So you will have to pay for every bit of information out there. No more free TV!
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Does anyone have a link to the new stream of pulse 87 for the iphone's pocket tunes app?
 
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