WNYC Stream Added to IHeartRadio

[Barry]

IHeartRadio has recently started adding some stations from broadcasters other than Clear Channel.
WNYC is now listed, if one searches the heavily promoted website for News and Talk stations in New York.
While the local public radio station has naturally been available online through other sites, this ought to give them considerable added national exposure.
BTW, I don't think it has been mentioned on this board that WLTW and Z-100 have been rebroadcast for the past few months on XM satellite radio receivers. It is nice to be able to listen to those stations with many of the commercials removed.

 

[xmusicmatt]

IHeartRadio has recently started adding some stations from broadcasters other than Clear Channel.
WNYC is now listed, if one searches the heavily promoted website for News and Talk stations in New York.
While the local public radio station has naturally been available online through other sites, this ought to give them considerable added national exposure.

Not surprising that Clear Channel is doing this.. By getting WNYC listeners to download their iHeartRadio app, it opens up exposure to their own stations... Clear Channel recently inked a deal with EMF to add Air1/KLove to iHeartRadio... Again not a direct competitor to them but by adding their formats to the app, more downloads, added exposure for Clear Channel's content! (and for no real cost to Clear Channel .. as streaming,encoding,licensing fees... are all paid by those stations already for their webstreams that clear channel is linking.)

 

[erwin33]

I try to find the direct URL for Iheart but this link isn't working http://wnyc-fm.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/291/19974/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/wnyc-fm

 

[nd2023]

WNYC doesn't have to pay music royalties since they're a news station, and most classical music is in the public domain.

I prefer apps like TuneIn or ooTunes that list every station. I don't have to switch apps to switch stations.

 

[KeithE4]

I prefer apps like TuneIn or ooTunes that list every station. I don't have to switch apps to switch stations.

Except for Clear Channel- and CBS-owned stations. Those stations are blocked, although CBS stations are accessible via the TuneIn webpage since they link to the Radio.com player.

 

[FightingIrish]

IHeartRadio has recently started adding some stations from broadcasters other than Clear Channel.
WNYC is now listed, if one searches the heavily promoted website for News and Talk stations in New York.
While the local public radio station has naturally been available online through other sites, this ought to give them considerable added national exposure.

Not surprising that Clear Channel is doing this.. By getting WNYC listeners to download their iHeartRadio app, it opens up exposure to their own stations... Clear Channel recently inked a deal with EMF to add Air1/KLove to iHeartRadio... Again not a direct competitor to them but by adding their formats to the app, more downloads, added exposure for Clear Channel's content! (and for no real cost to Clear Channel .. as streaming,encoding,licensing fees... are all paid by those stations already for their webstreams that clear channel is linking.)

And Univision was the first company outside of CC to be added to IHR.

 

[uncamark]

For the record, what WNYC is offering on IHeart isn't a 24/7 stream of either the AM or FM station (or WQXR or the Q2 stream), but a feed of the news/talk programs it produces or co-produces, both local and national, featuring the problematic young demo morning drive news show "The Takeaway" (which seems to me to be facing a point of possible cancellation, considering that it's not on at least half of the top 10 markets, that it's on a lot of HD-2 and -3 channels and not on the mainline stations and that it's buried on the AM station in its hometown because the hardcore 55+, college professor WNYC audience hates its guts) and the Brian Lehrer and Lenny Lopate talk shows.

 

[erwin33]

What's the direct streaming URL for the Iheart version?

 

[pjc1961]

Closest I can find for a direct URL (which I couldn't get to open in either the VLC or Real Player) is: rtmp://cp114514.live.edgefcs.net/live

The direct URL for the player that links to the WNYC News Program feed: http://www.iheart.com/#/live/5066/

Otherwise, the existing direct URLs for the WNYC.org family of stations in New York:

WNYC-AM-820: http://wnycam3.streamguys.com 32 K, 22 mHz, Mono
WNYC-AM-820: http://wnycam.streamguys.com:80/wnycam.aac (Icecast) 32 K, 44.1 kHz, Stereo
WNYC-FM-93.9: http://wnycfm.streamguys.com 32 K, 22 mHz, Mono
WNYC-FM-93.9: http://wnycfm.streamguys.com:80/wnycfm.aac (Icecast) 32 K, 44.1 mHz, Stereo
WQXR-FM-105.9: http://wnyc-wqxr-ice.streamguys.com:80/wqxr 128 K, 44.1 mHz, Stereo
WQXR-FM-105.9: http://wnyc-wqxr-ice.streamguys.com:80/wqxr.aac (Icecast) 32 K, 44.1 mHz, Stereo
WQXR-HD2-105.9: http://wnyc2.streamguys.com/wnyc2 (Q2 - Classical Music By Living Composers) 128 K, 44.1 mHz, Stereo

 

[FightingIrish]

WNYC is still on TuneIn, which is a web portal/mobile app that links to streams by just about every station in the world that isn't owned by Clear Channel or CBS.

 

[erwin33]

Closest I can find for a direct URL (which I couldn't get to open in either the VLC or Real Player) is: rtmp://cp114514.live.edgefcs.net/live

Strange URL for an Iheart stream. All iHeart streams look like this: http://wktu-fm.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/110/19973/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/wktu-fm

Can't open that rtmp:// stream.

 

[DToTheJ]

My hunch is that perhaps the WNYC iHeartRadio stream URL is not run through Akamai because Clear Channel does not own the station. The app might just be pulling the feed directly from WNYC's source.

 

[erwin33]

My hunch is that perhaps the WNYC iHeartRadio stream URL is not run through Akamai because Clear Channel does not own the station. The app might just be pulling the feed directly from WNYC's source.

Strange because the main WNYC has different programs than the iheart one. When I listen at iheart.com and check the WNYC FM stream.

 

[uncamark]

My hunch is that perhaps the WNYC iHeartRadio stream URL is not run through Akamai because Clear Channel does not own the station. The app might just be pulling the feed directly from WNYC's source.

Strange because the main WNYC has different programs than the iheart one. When I listen at iheart.com and check the WNYC FM stream.

The IHeart WNYC News and Conversation is all programs produced or co-produced by WNYC--nothing from NPR or the other national services and no music programming (besides, if they tried to put Jonathan Schwartz on IHeart beyond a live broadcast of his Saturday and Sunday programs, could Sirius XM call foul?).