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THE WMGK HD-2 FORMAT DEFINITELY NEEDS TO BE STREAMED ONLINE

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towernews

When I emailed the webmaster to WMGK, he told me WMGK stopped steaming their HD-2 stream as of 5/31/13. That's a darn shame, because unless you have an hd-2 radio you're not going to be able to hear it. Very few people in the Philadelphia area have an hd radio receiver. It's not like tv where you can buy an hd box and connect it to your analog receiver. I tried to contact the Greater Media Philadelphia office, but the contact portion of their website is not working right, it keeps getting stuck and freezing on me. Can someone, by someway contact Greater Media and tell them that the new hd-2 oldies format definitely needs to be streamed online, or else their listernership will be zero listeners or very very few listerners. What a discrase. Here we finally have an oldies format for seniors in the Philadelphia market, and practically no one will be able to hear it, because Greater Media here will not even re-consider and start streaming it. Why is it when something good or great starts up with Philadelphia Radio, somehow it always manages to get discontinued.
 
Or, "selling UHF TV adapter boxes to convert present sets that only had channels 2-13" so folks could pick up Channel 17 and watch RJ's new disco show. ;)
 
DToTheJ said:
Or, "selling UHF TV adapter boxes to convert present sets that only had channels 2-13" so folks could pick up Channel 17 and watch RJ's new disco show. ;)
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Not funny and makes no sense.
 
On the older GM iPhone apps, you used to be able to stream the HD2 subchannels. It seems they took that ability away on the newer apps.
 
towernews said:
When I emailed the webmaster to WMGK, he told me WMGK stopped steaming their HD-2 stream as of 5/31/13. That's a darn shame, because unless you have an hd-2 radio you're not going to be able to hear it.
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This flies in the face those who feel unique programming, such as this or the new smooth jazz station on HD2, will drive sales of HD radios. It should, and if this was the 1970s, it would. But it's not, and even great programming apparently isn't enough to get people to spend $50 for an HD radio. The radios are cheap and easy to buy, but nobody cares. I can understand Greater Media's view. The HD channel costs them nothing. Streaming the station costs a ton in royalties with no income. It's an easy call for the station.
 
TheBigA said:
towernews said:
When I emailed the webmaster to WMGK, he told me WMGK stopped steaming their HD-2 stream as of 5/31/13. That's a darn shame, because unless you have an hd-2 radio you're not going to be able to hear it.
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This flies in the face those who feel unique programming, such as this or the new smooth jazz station on HD2, will drive sales of HD radios. It should, and if this was the 1970s, it would. But it's not, and even great programming apparently isn't enough to get people to spend $50 for an HD radio. The radios are cheap and easy to buy, but nobody cares. I can understand Greater Media's view. The HD channel costs them nothing. Streaming the station costs a ton in royalties with no income. It's an easy call for the station.
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The HD channel costs them over $10000 plus the additional electricity and engineering expense, for zero listeners (outside this site).
 
Nick said:
The HD channel costs them over $10000 plus the additional electricity and engineering expense, for zero listeners (outside this site).
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Compared to how much money the site costs in royalties for the stream site?

Also, I question your $10K figure. The main cost of the HD channel is the royalty paid to iBiquity. Jerry Lee at WBEB thinks HD Radio is better than streaming.
 
If HD radio is better than streaming, then how come streams regularly appear in the ratings but not a single HD2 without a translator appears in the ratings? Every smartphone can stream, but less than 1% of new radios are HD radios.
 
My only complaint about the music is that the playlist is EXTREMELY short. I've been listening the last couple of days and I've heard some of the same songs played twice in one day!
 
Many new stations start off with a short playlist, hoping to build an audience. However, this is an HD2 that doesn't stream, so no one's listening. The PD should just program it to his heart's content.
 
they should use KLUVHD2 as a model.
Advantages of KLUV:
1. More of there library is in true stereo.
2. they use jingles!
3. better voiceover guy.
Disadvantage of KLUVHD2
Elvis every hour and the same elvis library.
from what i can tell WMGKHD2 stick mostly to 60's and if any 50's appear, its elvis. Its new though so who knows.
i wonder if at some point when HD becomes more viable if PD'S will think about putting personallities on HD?
 
John Holcomb II said:
i wonder if at some point when HD becomes more viable if PD'S will think about putting personallities on HD?
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That's a big "if." HD has been around for ten years and has 10% of the national usage of satellite. My sense is it wouldn't matter if they put personalities, or if they have live sex on the air...the hardware problem still keeps HD from being viable.
 
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