True, but I said that I use it for sports coverage. For example, usually if I'm out of market, I can't pick-up a teams feed on the traditional app. You need to be in-market to hear them.
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Bless their pea-pickin' little iHearts for that, no?
Not in my subjective stance. Rather have a blues station over more Pop, Country, or Classic Hits stations. And I felt that a small HD-2/3 signal was perfect for it.
I was being sarcastic.
I know you were. Just being defensive.
Interesting, huh? Boston can support TWO country stations, maybe TWO classic hits stations, what seems like a BOATLOAD of "pop" stations, but NO oldies or jazz or blues, not even on an HD subchannel.
It's not "Boston" that can't support them, it's the demographics can't support them.
Oldies: WMEX, WBMS; partly WJIB, though labeled "greatest hits", memories station. In some ways stations running 80s-90s can be considered oldies though it's called something else. Hearing Do You Believe in Love by Huey Lewis? 1982--40 years ago.
Oldies and jazz are on the air around Boston, they're just not full market FM signals.
As Bob mentioned above, 1950's through 1980's oldies are on WMEX 1510 AM (and 101.1 FM for those right around Weymouth), and many "softer" oldies are included in the nostalgia format on WJIB 740 AM/101.3 FM.
"Classic" jazz is played full-time on WZBR 1410 AM (and its 98.1 FM translator for those in the Mystic Valley north of Boston and the lower North Shore).
Blues is relegated only to speciality shows on public and college/community stations.
But what markets have jazz or blues formats anymore?
The obvious home for all jazz is New Orleans with WWOZ and WNOE I believe. There was a time our market had fulltime smooth jazz with WCDJ/ Oasis/ WSJZ 96.9 IIRC.
Not the traditional jazz...
Wiki entry for WBQT:"it flipped to smooth jazz as WCDJ, "CD96.9", on October 26, 1990. The first song under the new format was "Breakout" by Swing Out Sister.[3]" (that lasted till May of 93) "Smooth jazz returned at Noon on August 22, 1997 as WSJZ, after a format swap with what had been WOAZ (now WCRB)"
WPLM was SJ as Smooth/Jazzy 99.1 for a time.
I notice there's a digital stream playing smooth jazz in the area--it's not an FCC licensed station but uses call letters, and ones that are a bit close to an actual station in town...SmoothJazzBoston uses...WJMX.
Not the traditional jazz...
Wiki entry for WBQT:"it flipped to smooth jazz as WCDJ, "CD96.9", on October 26, 1990. The first song under the new format was "Breakout" by Swing Out Sister.[3]" (that lasted till May of 93) "Smooth jazz returned at Noon on August 22, 1997 as WSJZ, after a format swap with what had been WOAZ (now WCRB)"
WPLM was SJ as Smooth/Jazzy 99.1 for a time.
I notice there's a digital stream playing smooth jazz in the area--it's not an FCC licensed station but uses call letters, and ones that are a bit close to an actual station in town...SmoothJazzBoston uses...WJMX.
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Smooth "jazz" lives on in Northampton on WEIB 106.3.
Radio-Locator shows a surprising 16 stations running a blues format, most of them in the deep South -- five in Mississippi alone. The weird outlier is CKTP, Fredericton, New Brunswick. This station streams and, yes, I checked and it's indeed playing blues!
Radio-Locator shows a surprising 16 stations running a blues format, most of them in the deep South -- five in Mississippi alone. The weird outlier is CKTP, Fredericton, New Brunswick. This station streams and, yes, I checked and it's indeed playing blues!
The folks looking after iHeart's South Carolina operations may raise an eyebrow or two should they find out about SmoothJazzBoston.
103X - The Pee Dee's #1 Hit Music Station - Florence
103X The Pee Dee's #1 Hit Music Station - Florence
Yes. Apparently the smoothjazzboston one is using a "-DB" suffix as in Digital Broadcasting I'd guess
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As for using call letters illegally, there once was a pirate on 102.1 in Boston called Choice FM. Their website said that came from
"the people('s) choice" and that the call letters were WCFM... Those calls belong to a legal station in Williamstown, Williams College radio
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WJMX-DB Smooth Jazz Boston Global Radio
Lowell, MA December 14, 2018 -- WJMX-DB Smooth Jazz Boston Global Radio has been selected for the 2018 Best of Lowell Award in the Radio Broadcaster category by the Lowell Award-------------------------------------------
As for using call letters illegally, there once was a pirate on 102.1 in Boston called Choice FM. Their website said that came from
"the people('s) choice" and that the call letters were WCFM... Those calls belong to a legal station in Williamstown, Williams College radio
Thanks, Eli, but none of these is, as you rightfully point out, a "full market" signal, and most, if not all, of the stations you cited don't reach the Merrimack Valley all that well.
Do I WANT to resort to streaming and/or satellite? No, but I and the rest of my undesirable and miniscule demographic have little choice.
In the Merrimack Valley, especially inland around Lowell, you can hear '50s to '80s oldies on 900 AM WGHM Nashua, NH when it's on day power. (The night power barely gets that far).
Not only NOT full-market, but also out-of-market.
I hate when a thread go off topic, it happens all to much on forums
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Just noticed that WROR has turned their HD1 back on after about a year of broadcasting in analog only!
No subchannels.
Just noticed that WROR has turned their HD1 back on after about a year of broadcasting in analog only!
No subchannels.
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I hope all that time the HD1 was silent, they weren't ID'ing as "WROR, WROR-HD1, Framingham-Boston." If it's not illegal, it should be.
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