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

[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

 

[WNTIRadio]

It's not streaming because of the costs involved with the stream, in the form of ransom for the artists that receive free promotion in the form of their music being played "on the air" or the internet or elsewhere.

Nobody I know is stealing music off the radio or someone's stream. It's through file sharing. Go after that and stop trying to punish broadcasters.

Personally, radio should send the record companies a bill for the airtime.

 

[nd2023]

If a tree falls and its sound is broadcast on an HD2 that doesn't stream, does it make a sound?

What's the point of programming an HD2 if no one's going to listen to it because it doesn't stream. Keep in mind that even people with HD radios won't listen because of drop outs.