New Streaming Addresses; You May Need To Force Stop On App

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TheBlast.FM stations are migrating to new streaming addresses.  The new addresses are on our websites, in the HTML5 players, and in the apps.  They were added just ahead of Midnight USA/Canada Central Time last night.

As of this writing, about 40% of our current-listening audience is on the old stream addresses.  You may need to force stop on TheBlast.FM app and re-open it.  You may also need to clear the cache in your webpage.  If the 32k stream is gone, you should be on the latest incarnation of the app/webpage.

The 32k stream is gone, at least for now.

This streaming address change is due to the Sound Exchange royalty reports generation issue.  We are trying a somewhat DIY approach, still streaming with our long term legacy streaming provider that required certain add-on software, and required different streaming addresses.

TheBlast.FM Fire TV App Is Live!

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TheBlast.FM Fire TV app has been launched!  The Fire TV app for TheBlast.FM joins our Android, iOS, Windows 10/11, XBox, Roku, Apple TV, and Alexa Skills* as our 8th app!  TheBlast.FM app is coming soon to a 9th platform!

Go to the Fire TV App Store and download it!

All four stations:  The Blast, The Blast Blender, The Implosion, and The Blastozoic Era are in 8 of these apps; each station has its own individual Alexa Skill now.

(The current {Amazon} Fire TV app download page shows a 2018 creation date…but that was the date of our {Amazon} Alexa Skillls originally launching).  We have asked our developer to fix that to eliminate confusion.

 

Colin Cruz Of TheBlast.FM Interviews Kevin Young Of Disciple: Listen On Website Anytime

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TheBlast.FM’s Colin Cruz talked with Kevin Young of Disciple  about a bunch of things, including the Friday release of Skeleton Psalms Deluxe Edition.  The interview will air on The Blast in the 11 am hour (USA/Canadian Central Time) this Saturday April 26th.

In case you missed the interview or want to hear it again, here it is:

TheBlast.FM Alexa Skills Are Live (Again)

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We have had Alexa Skills for years…

We used to have 1 set of Alexa Skills forour 4 radio stations, bundled into one.

And that worked just fine until Alexa changed the parameters that were required and that messed up our Skills.

So, we have had our main app developer re-develop our Alexa Skills, and each of our stations now has its own Skill.

They are as follows:

The Blast 
“Alexa, play blast f. m.”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRVFKB65/

The Blast Blender
“Alexa, play blast blender”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRYG1HM3/

The Implosion
“Alexa, play blast implosion”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS26JS61/

The Blastozoic Era
“Alexa, play blast classic”
https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0DRYGY47Y/

The Blast Listenership Distribution Mid March To Mid April 2025

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We told We Blast Everywhere!  Here is a 30,000 foot view of our listenership distribution across planet Earth over the last 30 days.

Streams Are Back Up After An *Actual* (Blast)

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Some kind of an explosion happened at or near the data center where our live streams were hosted tonight.  That wreaked havoc on our streams over the last 75 minutes. Police and firemen are on the scene.    But we are back up, and this motivates us to set up an ancillary stream for each station at a different geographic site.  Stay tuned for details on that.

TheBlast.FM Bringing Disciple In Concert To Sioux Falls Wed July 31, 2024 (Updated To Include Concert Promo Video Link)

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TheBlast.FM is bringing Christian Rock band Disciple in concert to Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Wednesday July 31, 2024, 7:00 pm at LifeChange Church (formerly known as Sioux Falls First), 6300 W. 41st Street.

The band will also play several songs of their power worship altar ego band Honor & Glory.

It’s gonna be hard rockin’, it’s gonna be all out worship At Full Blast, and Kevin’s preaching.

Bring your rocker friends that need to get saved.  It could happen on 7/31/24!

Tickets are $15 in advance ( $35 for VIP tickets) and are on sale here:  http://www.itickets.com/events/479874.html

Tickets are $20 at the door.

Link to the concert promotional video:

https://fb.watch/tqDHZFcC7K/

TheBlast.FM Outage: Southwest Fiber Cut: Use Backup Streams

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If you wondering why we have dead air tonight, our San Diego hosting provider has let us know that they see there was a fiber cut in the southwest tonight and that is somehow affecting our stream hosting.

Use our Backup Streams (last option in the app) as we look for other solutions.

 

New On Air Server Blasting In San Diego Data Center

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Our streaming/ website hosting/ data center co-location provider sent us this picture from the data center rack where this 1RU newly donated on air server is now encoding all of our streams (most of the time, except when Windows updates reboots are needed or in the rare event of other problems) and in those cases, we will encode from the backup on air computer.

$175 a month is the price we are now paying  to co-locate this server in this San Diego data center

You can help support that here:  https://www.theblast.fm/home/donations/