October 23, 2007
WLS-AM Difficulties in Streaming Audio
Well, I figure it’s time for a small mini-rant. After all, you guys get tired of listening to me not-ranting, don’t you? 😉
I’ve been a long-time listener to WLS-AM (890 kHz- Chicago, IL). When I can’t get it via the radio, I often attempt to get it via streaming audio. Recently, the radio-station made a change to how it was streaming its audio. It appears they have contracted out the audio streaming to some insane company called players.eonstreams.com. Fine. Just fine. Except, well, that it’s impossible for me to stream their audio anymore! I can’t get their stream in anything other than a d*Q!#@ web-browser with their !@!@# pop-up window and in-line advertisements. Well, that’s just b-e-a-utiful.
They’ve lost a listener, at least an on-line listener. They used to be one of the major online radio streams, and I can only guess that now, they aren’t even registering in listenership. Why oh, why, WLS-AM did you need to make this change? Honestly, do you think it was worth it to get a few more adverts up to only support web-service streaming with weirdo-pop-ups and platform specific audio? [Windows media player only!] What in the world is happening up there at the station? Someone dropped the ball on that one.
Guess the money was worth it. Well, you can count me out on listenership online.
searching4arcadia 
Maggie said,
November 16, 2007 at 3:09 pm
I play the stream directly from Windows Media Player using the link
http://players.eonstreams.com/FastAim/Player/Play.php?PulseID=145177639&SecurityKey=62547&IsIE=0
Your mileage with other media players may vary.
a11en said,
November 17, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Hey Maggie!!
Can’t thank you enough for that link. I tried it in iTunes- no go, tried it in Quicktime- no go (I have the WM plugins for them)… finally tried it in VLC as “open network” – had some errors, but it did something, and then finally streamed. So, I can’t use it as I used to, but it’s nice to know I can listen in VLC. 🙂
Thank you for dropping in and letting me know, Maggie! Really appreciate it!! [Now I can finally listen at my desk at work again!]
Cheers!
-Allen
ps- drop in anytime!
Mauri said,
January 21, 2008 at 6:14 am
Thanks Maggie, you are the best!!
Mauri
a11en said,
September 10, 2009 at 8:53 am
Here are a few links I found here:
http://www.thestreamcenter.com/search.asp?name=WLS%20890%20AM
this one worked for me in VLC player (32k):
mms://citadelcc-wls-am.wm.llnwd.net/citadelcc_WLS_AM
Didn’t figure how to stream this one yet (64k):
http://citadelcc.ic.llnwd.net/stream/citadelcc_WLS-AM.m3u