WHVW 950 Streaming

[DXingRadio]

Caught this on shortwave WBCQ's website, WHVW 950 is now streaming. They also have a new-ish website.

http://www.whvw.com

Stream -> http://www.splatterbox.us:6950/listen.pls

Felt the station could use any promotion it can get ;D

 

[CKNF]

Listening to this station is like taking a step back in time. You'll be hard pressed to find anything else like this in the 21st century. They're a 500 Watt Day/57 Watt Night locally owned independent station with LIVE presenters!

They play a very interesting eclectic mix of music mostly from pre-1970 going as far back as the dawn of the electronic recording era. Most of what gets played is off CD or carts and they don't always behave.

All their programming is local. Nothing is piped in from anywhere and they do not use voice tracking. They have a few recorded liners and a jingle that sounds like it was produced 50 years ago and that's about it. Any other voice you hear is live.

I've really been enjoying listening to this neat little radio station and I am glad they are streaming online.

After listening to the online feed, it quickly becomes apparent that the web stream feed is coming straight off the board from one of the auxiliary outs. It's mono (which is perfectly fine considering the format and the terrestrial signal) and it's not processed in anyway and I hope that at some point they at least consider adding some light processing to the web feed because the levels are all over the place. Yesterday I was listening at work and when the mid morning guy was taking live phone calls, the phone audio was extremely loud forcing me to turn it down but then I could hardly hear anything else over the background (office) noise. This morning listening in the car, the studio mic was significantly louder than the music, so fiddling with the volume knob was necessary as well. I'm sure that these are just little growing pains as these folks get used to the setup of the online feed but I would say that adding some light compression would be essential.

Anyways, great station and is something truly unique and interesting to listen to.

 

[cspence]

I just noticed also that WBCQ has a link on their site to WHVW's stream. Must be a connection with Weiner and WHVW. The music on WHVW has to be the most campy stuff on the air.

 

[oldies4ever]

WEINER??? There's a book about this, Weiner and whvw owner JP Ferraro, maybe these 2 kissed and made up, as The book doesn't throw a favorable light on ferraro..ill see if I can find the name of the book

oldies4ever ;D

 

[cspence]

Friday night Weiner sang praises about 950 in the Hudson Valley for several minutes. He includes WHVW and his own operation as the "Last free speech stations in America" . A question about Alan,if he's always begging for money what is he doing down in the "land of fla" six months a year????

 

[DXingRadio]

Shortwave WBCQ will be carrying an hour of Pirate Joe's show starting today (3 PM) on 7490 KHz. It'll be a nice change of pace from WBCQ's normal weekday fare of "BUY GOLD ECONOMONY COLLAPSING END TIMES AHHH" show and Brother ScareStair.

http://www.wbcq.com/?p=621

 

[DXingRadio]

WEINER??? There's a book about this, Weiner and whvw owner JP Ferraro, maybe these 2 kissed and made up, as The book doesn't throw a favorable light on ferraro..ill see if I can find the name of the book

oldies4ever ;D

Access to the Airwaves

The book paints Weiner almost as a hippy who just wants to do radio. Today he sounds more like a raving teapartier, probably listens to his stations programming too much ...

 

[283rich]

"...Weiner almost as a hippy who just wants to do radio. Today he sounds more like a raving teapartier..."

And J.P. "Pirate Joe" Ferraro is a raving, anti-corporate, socialist occupier. Sounds like a match made in heaven.

 

[oldies4ever]

perfect, 283rich, we could go on for hours, still trying to find out the name of the book Wiener wrote about JP.....sta tuned


oldies4ever