Re: Nail in streaming's coffin

["Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@mindspring.com>]

It looks like as of today (4/14/01) that at least WRKO's Internet stream is
back on line.
I just even listened to the stream for a few minutes.
There is a notice on their Web forum about this. I would guess they're
employing the
StreamAudio blocking feature.

73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Osborne" <osbo1621@hotmail.com>
To: <steveord@wavewizard.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: Nail in streaming's coffin


>
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:43:16 -0400 SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>
> >  How do they do this?  Does the station have to send SA a copy of >their
> >log?  How do they handle agency spots in syndicated shows >(Casey Kasem,
> >etc)?
>
>     As a former Entercom employee, StreamAudio does have the capacity to
> block local spots, but at least in the Rochester cluster that feature was
> not up and running yet, as the over the air signal was being webcast 100%
of
> the time (only one station in that cluster was even webcasting last I
knew).
>   My guess is that Rochester is/was not the only Entercom market where
this
> situation existed, and they just aren't willing to spend money on
streaming
> audio now, so instead they just yanked all the streams to avoid the issue
> altogether...
>
>                                  Matt Osborne
>                                  Hyde Park, NY
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