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Sinatra On WPHT - Streaming Coming Soon?

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Effective this weekend, WOGL will be streaming their popular "Elvis & Friends with Rockin' Ron Cade" show as well as "Breakfast With The Beatles" on their Internet stream. The station's website doesn't say it, but the reason why WOGL didn't stream those two programs was likely due to SoundExchange mandating that a webcaster play "no more than 3 songs in a row by the same artist" and "not more than 4 songs by same artist in a 3 hour period" (source: http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/tags/nab-soundexchange-agreement/). So there must be a loophole allowing CBS to now stream these two shows online.

So, now that The King and The Fab Four are cleared to be performing worldwide for an extended period of time out of Philadelphia, how soon until we can hear Ol' Blue Eyes? WOGL's sister station WPHT has the long-running "Saturday with Sinatra" and "Sunday with Sinatra" shows hosted by Sid Mark that are blacked out on their Internet stream. But would this decision be just as easy to make for Sinatra as it was for Elvis and The Beatles? As a talk station, WPHT doesn't normally pay any royalties to the RIAA. Let's hope that they make an exception for The Chairman Of The Board.
 
DToTheJ said:
Effective this weekend, WOGL will be streaming their popular "Elvis & Friends with Rockin' Ron Cade" show as well as "Breakfast With The Beatles" on their Internet stream. The station's website doesn't say it, but the reason why WOGL didn't stream those two programs was likely due to SoundExchange mandating that a webcaster play "no more than 3 songs in a row by the same artist" and "not more than 4 songs by same artist in a 3 hour period" (source: http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/tags/nab-soundexchange-agreement/). So there must be a loophole allowing CBS to now stream these two shows online.

So, now that The King and The Fab Four are cleared to be performing worldwide for an extended period of time out of Philadelphia, how soon until we can hear Ol' Blue Eyes? WOGL's sister station WPHT has the long-running "Saturday with Sinatra" and "Sunday with Sinatra" shows hosted by Sid Mark that are blacked out on their Internet stream. But would this decision be just as easy to make for Sinatra as it was for Elvis and The Beatles? As a talk station, WPHT doesn't normally pay any royalties to the RIAA. Let's hope that they make an exception for The Chairman Of The Board.

First of all it is silly that a talk radio station is devoting time to Sinatra on the weekend. This was a bad tradition started by WWDB years ago. Your format is "spoken word". Keep it at that.
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Seltzer said:
it is silly that a talk radio station is devoting time to Sinatra on the weekend. This was a bad tradition started by WWDB years ago. Your format is "spoken word". Keep it at that.
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Uh, no. Sinatra continued to bring in-demo ears to 'DB after it switched from Jazz to Talk and brings them to PHT. And it sure beats more infomercials.
 
Seltzer said:
DToTheJ said:
First of all it is silly that a talk radio station is devoting time to Sinatra on the weekend. This was a bad tradition started by WWDB years ago. Your format is "spoken word". Keep it at that.
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Silly? Tell that to WPHT big wigs and Syd Mark are who making huge money over this show. Ever listen to all the sponsorships Syd Mark has? Believe me, CBS wouldn't allow anything that's not making them money. Tradition or not.
 
Easy. Just mix in a whole lot of Nancy Sinatra songs too.
 
Interstate 78 said:
...Ever listen to all the sponsorships Syd Mark has?
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I'd like to, but I'm outside the area... I'll take your word for it, though!
 
The bigger question here is how old is Sid Mark and how much longer can this show last? I've heard he is so feeble that he can hardly press the buttons on the console.

I wonder if anyone will continue the show after Sid is no longer available to host it.
 
Radio Wreck said:
I wonder if anyone will continue the show after Sid is no longer available to host it.
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It wouldn't be the same. Anyone can play a bunch of Sinatra records. Not everyone can tell the stories that Sid does in between them. I'd rather hear replays of old shows than have someone else hosting, but even that isn't really the best idea.
 
Radio Wreck said:
The bigger question here is how old is Sid Mark and how much longer can this show last?
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A little googling says Sid is 78 ... a guy at WSNJ just retired at 92. Who knows.
 
Outside of Rush, Sid's show is the only one I listen to on WPHT. It is a welcome change of pace on the weekends. Haveing an internet feed would make it even better.

And I really cannot understand the mindset of people who think a talk station "cannot" have a music program on during off peak hours.
what's your problem?
 
Didn't the old WJFK in Washington run smooth jazz on the overnights back when they had their "hot talk" lineup of Stern, Don & Mike and The Greaseman during the day?

@Tom: And now we have Andy Rooney calling it quits at 92 years old... Let's hope Sid can grace us with his Sinatra knowledge for at least another ten years!
 
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