WABC Rewound 2011

[mary]

Radio truth, they could have the ones that are living to call up!! and air old cks of the ones that died thanks Bruce, I know about that site. I don't intend to pay Have a good day everyone!!!

 

[pjc1961]

Here's the complete info for Memorial Day Weekend 2011 WABC Rewound:

Starting on Friday 5/27/11 at 4pm ET and ending sometime early on Tuesday 5/31/11, Rewound Radio will be playing random airchecks from the various Rewound programs that aired on WABC radio from 1999-2008 plus the online-only podcasts that were originally made available in 2009.

Rewound Radio home page: http://rewoundradio.com/

Rewound Radio Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rewound-Radio/301024123206

On this page: http://musicradio77.com/ - general Rewound 2011 info at top of page. Scroll down to near bottom of page to see detailed 1999-2009 listings of Rewound aircheck lineups to use as a reference guide.

WABC radio has reactivated their Rewound 2009 online-only podcast page: http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=33049 where podcasts are available for listening and downloading. Most likely this page will be active for awhile...a week, a month...maybe until Labor Day as in past years.

However, since there are podcast description errors and one podcast that's duplicated and one podcast that's missing on the WABCRadio.com Rewound 2009 page, here's a link to the Rewound 2009 page on musicradio77.com with accurate aircheck descriptions and podcast links: http://www.musicradio77.com/rewound2009.html

Rewound Radio Listen Live URLs to plug into various media players and listening devices: 

http://www.musicradio77.com:9000/listen.pls  128 kbps 44.1 khz stereo (iPhone)
http://www.musicradio77.com:8000/listen.pls  128 kbps 44.1 khz stereo
http://www.musicradio77.com:7000/listen.pls    64 kbps 44.1 khz stereo (iPhone)
http://www.musicradio77.com/rewoundtmp.asx  128 kbps 44.1 khz stereo
http://71.125.37.66:9000  128 kbps 44.1 khz stereo
http://71.125.37.66:8000  128 kbps 44.1 khz stereo
http://71.125.37.66:7000    64 kbps 44.1 khz stereo
http://www.musicradio77.com:9000  128 kbps 44.1 khz stereo (Blackberry)
http://www.musicradio77.com:8000  128 kbps 44.1 khz stereo
http://www.musicradio77.com:7000    64 kpbs 44.1 khz stereo (Blackberry)
http://www.rewoundradio.com:9000  128 kbps 44.1 khz stereo
http://www.rewoundradio.com:8000  128 kbps 44.1 khz stereo
http://www.rewoundradio.com:7000    64 kbps 44.1 khz stereo

 

[DToTheJ]

Rewound Radio Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rewound-Radio/301024123206

Allan realizes he can easily get the custom URL "rewoundradio" for Facebook, right?

 

[nd2023]

Love it! Hopefully he does this every year

 

[RADIO TRUTH]

Why will WABC never do it? Because the top dental audience was 198 unique listeners at one time. If the average price of a radio commercial is $5.35 per thousand listeners, this would make dental spots for WABC Rewound cost
some where between $.75 and $1.06.

 

[pjc1961]

If I'm assuming correctly, you're probably going by the Shoutcast.com figures for the 3 streams that can be seen on their webpage. There is the additional Windows Media stream available through the RewoundRadio.com homepage (the "click the Jukebox" link: http://www.musicradio77.com/rewoundtmp.asx, which probably a decent amount of listeners used) which added to the total. Granted, probably not that many to raise a ruckus about.

For what it's worth, Mr. Sniffen announced (live online) at the close of the weekend that there were more listeners this year than last. Earlier in the weekend he also announced online that he had to increase bandwith to accommodate the larger amount of listeners. There had been a couple of occasions when buffering was a problem, more so on the 128 kbps streams than on the 64 kbps streams.

 

[DToTheJ]

Also, kudos to Rewound Radio's Facebook page reaching 1,000 "likers"!

 

[musichead1029]

Why will WABC never do it? Because the top {internet} audience was 198 unique listeners at one time. If the average price of a radio commercial is $5.35 per thousand listeners, this would make {internet} spots for WABC Rewound cost some where between $.75 and $1.06.

Apples and oranges. Terrestrial radio - maybe 20 channels of interest to choose from. Internet - thousands of channels of interest to choose from. Terrestrial radio: lowest common denominator programming for a mass audience uninterested in checking out anything more adventurous. Internet: niche formats for engaged but small audiences.

If you want to make money on the net via ad support, you need tens or hundreds of well-programmed branded niche channels to do it. And good luck with those multiple royalty payments per stream.

Terrestrial radio serves those who are left. Outside of a once or twice a year local (usually catastrophic) event drawing some interest in terrestrial radio, the audience consists of remainders who don't comprehend the other options or who just don't care.

Specialty programming like Rewound was used to draw attention to WABC and its heritage. The program has likely run its course in that respect. There are still a handful of substantive programs, like John Batchelor's show, but that's the exception, not the rule.

 

[KFodor]

Why will WABC never do it? Because the top {internet} audience was 198 unique listeners at one time. If the average price of a radio commercial is $5.35 per thousand listeners, this would make {internet} spots for WABC Rewound cost some where between $.75 and $1.06.

Apples and oranges. Terrestrial radio - maybe 20 channels of interest to choose from. Internet - thousands of channels of interest to choose from. Terrestrial radio: lowest common denominator programming for a mass audience uninterested in checking out anything more adventurous. Internet: niche formats for engaged but small audiences.

If you want to make money on the net via ad support, you need tens or hundreds of well-programmed branded niche channels to do it. And good luck with those multiple royalty payments per stream.

Terrestrial radio serves those who are left. Outside of a once or twice a year local (usually catastrophic) event drawing some interest in terrestrial radio, the audience consists of remainders who don't comprehend the other options or who just don't care.

Specialty programming like Rewound was used to draw attention to WABC and its heritage. The program has likely run its course in that respect. There are still a handful of substantive programs, like John Batchelor's show, but that's the exception, not the rule.

Yep...terrestrial radio serves those who are left. And "those who are left" represent, I believe the figure is 93 percent of the country....

 

[musichead1029]

Yep...terrestrial radio serves those who are left. And "those who are left" represent, I believe the figure is 93 percent of the country....

Say 'hi' to the tooth fairy next time she stops by your place. I'm one of the "93%" that "uses" radio each week... in my case for traffic and weather. Total time tuned in: 3 minutes a week. I might hear an ad or two during that period too.

Other 99% of my time spent consuming media per week: not commercial terrestrial radio.

And I'm an old guy with only a few years left in the upper demos. The youngsters don't even know how to tune in the traffic station (AM). Though they have a app for it.

Look around...... reality often doesn't comport with the Koolaide statistics.

 

[wgliradio]

WABC(AM) has now been a talk station 7 years longer than it was Top 40. Rewound was novel when it first appeared, but that has long since worn off, especially when there are plenty of places to get oldies. No need to confuse WABC's talk audience for more than a few hours a week on Saturday nights.

There isn't any confusion. It's just an excuse. Most people, on Memorial Day, aren't into their regular routine to begin with, so doing a special like this is not a huge deal. In fact, most radio stations are out of format for the weekend... what with specific specials or countdowns.

I doubt very much if Rewound on WABC had any negative ratings impact. If you ask me, I'd ditch the Saturday show in a heartbeat in favor of the once a year special.

 

[wgliradio]

Why will WABC never do it? Because the top dental audience was 198 unique listeners at one time. If the average price of a radio commercial is $5.35 per thousand listeners, this would make dental spots for WABC Rewound cost
some where between $.75 and $1.06.

IIRC, Rewound was actually sponsored by North Shore LIJ and Hackensack University Medical Center (among others). The spot breaks were quite long on the airchecks...

Rewound Radio Online only has 198 unique listeners because it is irrelevent.

 

[musichead1029]

Rewound Radio Online only has 198 unique listeners because it is irrelevent.

Yes yes yes, then by that impeckerable logic, 99% of internet radio is irrelevant.

To you.

The rest of us are listening to it.

 

[wgliradio]

Rewound Radio Online only has 198 unique listeners because it is irrelevent.

Yes yes yes, then by that impeckerable logic, 99% of internet radio is irrelevant.

To you.

The rest of us are listening to it.

Impeckerable? LOL. Only Archie Bunker himself can butcher a word like that ;D

And, yes, most internet radio is irrelevant. The most listened to internet streams are from terrestrial broadcasters or organized netcasters like Pandora or Accuradio.

Rewound Radio plays only to a small following of people. It's the type of niche netcasting that makes listening to internet radio fun, but it never will be mainstream or could replace an over the air special of a similar type.

 

[musichead1029]

yes, most internet radio is irrelevant. The most listened to internet streams are from terrestrial broadcasters or organized netcasters like Pandora or Accuradio.

Rewound Radio plays only to a small following of people. It's the type of niche netcasting that makes listening to internet radio fun, but it never will be mainstream or could replace an over the air special of a similar type.

That's exactly the point. Internet listening, far from irrelevant, is replacing over the air listening. Yes, it's narrowcast niche formatted. That's also the point. Broadcast lowest-common-denominator outlets have been garnering less and less influence for awhile now, and this will continue. Each stream individually will have relatively few listeners when compared to old broadcast media but together as a medium, the internet is where the listeners are going. (And to file players and to cloud players etc....)

This is going to render specialty broadcasts like Rewound obsolete on broadcast media - they will be fulltime webstreams or on-demand podcasts for those who wish to "tune in". Broadcast medium will continue to be a lowest common denominator catch all for general news and generic music formats, and more popular general talk formats. Programmers will have to adjust to those realities if they aren't already. And they are - look at the more creative pubcasters and NPR. Multiple platforms and on-demand content.