WOGL HD-4 now Phillies 24-7

[phils07]

I saw on WOGL HD-4 that it is Phillies 24/7

 

[athegymtday]

So what happens during the off season?

 

[DToTheJ]

Just this week, I heard WPHT give a legal ID including "WOGL-HD3 and 4". Looks like somebody needs to change that if HD4 isn't airing WPHT programming other than the Phillies games.

So, to answer your question, Gym, it's probably a simulcast of WPHT during the offseason.

 

[qtpieislit]

HD 4, 24 kbps.

 

[musichead1029]

Interesting. I wonder if they'll run the regular talk programming that gets pre-empted on the AM by Phils games on the HD-3, especially during the day games. That would be the equivalent of running the webstream on the HD-3 and the Phillies feed on HD-4.

 

[Bill_W]

Interesting. I wonder if they'll run the regular talk programming that gets pre-empted on the AM by Phils games on the HD-3, especially during the day games. That would be the equivalent of running the webstream on the HD-3 and the Phillies feed on HD-4.

Like Rush, today? Why can't CBS put these day games on WIP instead of WPHT? WPHT has to pre-empt Rush today. What could WIP actually be programming against the Phillies game today?

 

[musichead1029]

WPHT, WOGL-HD3, WOGL-HD4 - Phillies
WPHT Online - Regular talk Programming

This is where the internet comes in handy. I guess if MLB allowed WPHT to stream baseball, we'd have to rely on WABC or some other stream for the talk programming. There'd be more value to more listeners if WOGL-HD3 carried the webfeed (regular programming) and the HD4 did the Phillies.

WNTP also maintains its regular talk programming on their webfeed when they run brokered sports broadcasts on 990.

I think CBS realizes that only a portion of WIP listeners are interested in games which is why they maintain the talk format instead of running games on 610. WIP consistently has more listeners than WPHT, hence talk listeners lose out where sports talk listeners keep their format. Plus WIP has direct competition now.

 

[Wbzfm2010]

wip had the game today!

 

[tomservo]

Unless the HD-4 is streaming or on a translator, is anyone even going to hear it? What's HD penetration like in Philadelphia?

 

[musichead1029]

Interesting. Right now it looks like they're not actually offering this channel to the public (outside of the handful of us eavesdropping hobbyists with HD radios). Either it's an Ibiquity-subsidized, low-to-no-cost 'repurposing' of existing MLB/WIP Phillies-related content or, more likely, a soft start to a future webstream.

 

[Bill_W]

Interesting. Right now it looks like they're not actually offering this channel to the public (outside of the handful of us eavesdropping hobbyists with HD radios). Either it's an Ibiquity-subsidized, low-to-no-cost 'repurposing' of existing MLB/WIP Phillies-related content or, more likely, a soft start to a future webstream.

Actually no.
http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/content/printer_friendly/phi/y2011/m04/d02/c17294794.jsp
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/20...bs-radios-wogl-on-dedicated-hd-radio-station/
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...adio-philadelphia-launches-phillies-24-7-hd4-
http://www.radioworld.com/article/116882

 

[musichead1029]

No, what? Either they're programming a channel that no one will be able to hear or they're going to have to offer it on a platform that fans have access to. The press releases don't appear to limit them to offering the content only via HD, so assuming they're serious about offering the content they advertise, they'll have to add a webstream either via CBS or the Phillies.

It's a great advertisement for HD to be sure, but no one has the receivers. And you can't have listener-participatory programming when you have no listeners.