Spent a little time today with some apps for the iPhone to see if I could get anything actually streaming to the thing. Success and it is free.

1) Download the app “FStream“, clicking this will open iTunes link to app.

2) Once installed, press “favorites”, then press “edit”. Press the plus sign next to “Add new web radio”. Now look at the image to the left, the URL that you want to use is:

mms://uni5.susq.streamaudio.com/KTCK_AM

mms://live.cumulusstreaming.com/KTCK-AM

or

http://player.cumulusstreaming.com/stations/KTCK-AM/PubPoint.asx

3) Press the save button, go to the apps home page and touch text that says “Sports Radio 1310 – The Ticket”, and BOOM!

Now you have access everywhere.

UPDATE:

I, myself, checked this out today as well and am having no luck getting anything but a disconnected message. I will keep searching for a stream that will work.

In the meantime if anyone else finds an iPhone app to stream with, let’s hear about it.

DOUBLE UPDATE: Seems the good ol’ Ticket actually switched their streaming service. They are now streaming from Cumulus Streaming instead of StreamAudio. So just change the URL and you should be good to go!

CUMULUS, THE POWER OF RADIO…

And as Nick Burns, your company’s computer guy would say,

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This season has been really tough to watch the Mavs. Especially towards the mid-season, right before the trade for Kidd. The Mavs would give up so early in games it was just like watching your kid in a bare knuckles match and just dropping his hands and letting someone punch him in the face over and over.

Since the Mavs traded for Kidd, the Mavs have beaten a plus .500 team ONE TIME! The Warriors folded to the Mavs the other night, which was a mental war won, but that doesn’t really mean much in the whole playoff race. Tonight they were owning the Lakers for 3 quarters and then the 4th, they just started falling apart, like the old Mavs.

What else angers me, and maybe it’s just because the Mavs suck, is the officiating. I know you might thing that I’m a Mavs fan and I don’t like the officiating because of Cuban. But that’s not it. The problem I have occurs in every NBA game I watch. The officiating is so horrible that even the crowds of tens of thousands see obvious no calls. And I’m not talking about no calls for the home team, I’m talking about obvious walks, obvious fouls and situations where the official has a personal agenda.

Take for example when Tim Duncan was ejected because he smiled at an official. He did nothing to warrant being ejected, other than smile at the ref for freaking out on him, but the official did it. The same official would not even call a tap dance walk into a basket or a shot changing foul. It just doesn’t make sense to me why some games the officials call a hundred fouls and some games they ‘let them play’. Why wouldn’t all refs ‘let them play’? Flagrant fouls should be called and flagrant walks should be called, the rest of the petty shit, shove the whistle up your corn hole and let the players play.

So in summary, the Mavericks suck and the NBA officials suck.

**UPDATE**
Mavs beat the Suns today. Why do they play with our sports emotions like this?

“GO MAVS! I’m Doyle King“

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After the Hardline went on a rant about Rocco Pendola, they then moved into “Blogging”. Corby makes the statement “There are too many bloggers” and also said, “I just don’t get blogs”. While I would love to call in and educate you, I figured I would “BLOG” about it. This way I get to say my piece and you or Danny don’t have the ability to cut me off.

Corby you are only showing your ignorance to the world wide web. I hear you make fun of Norm and his lack of computer skills, but your comments are making you sound a fool. Of course, Danny did too, but at least he admits he doesn’t have a computer. You asked how people get people to read their blog, where Danny said “tell your friends”, then you said “that’s kind of pretentious”. Corby, Cobby, Corra, Cobra!

This blog we started in December. We do it for fun. And we have a blast doing it. Compare it to what you do. You had no idea if anyone was going to listen to the ticket when it started, but you continued on doing what you enjoyed, then look where you guys are now. Blogs are no different than starting a radio station, except voice is replaced with text. You made the comment about how “punctuation” or they’re “poorly written” makes them horrible, but have you listened to your station? You guys make mistakes all the time. It’s human nature.

Blogs should be published when someone is passionate about a subject. Those will get the biggest reader base. You talk about subjects that not only interest you, but also appeal to a grand audience. In our situation, we tap into your market and give the listener point of view to what you boys talk about. Think of it like a rock bands fan site.

Oh and how you get people to your blog? You don’t run around and tell all your friends to read and hope they tell people. We told our friends to help us write that we knew were P1’s. If they’re not interested, cool. Where we get our readers is from the search engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN and so on. Here are a few examples:

Subject: Nasty Nester Calling You A Jew
Google: Unticket.com #1 for Nasty Nestor Jew
Yahoo: Unticket.com #1 for Nasty Nestor Jew

We are averaging around 2,000 visits each day now. Before you know it, we’ll have more readers than you do listeners, then we’ll buy your contract out and fire you for being stupid.

signed: Ed from Lewisville

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Ever wondered how to bypass those annoying system voice mail recordings on cell phones? Here’s the trick:

1. For Sprint/Cingular/AT&T, PRESS 1
2. For Verizon, PRESS *
3. For Tmobile, PRESS #

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I was looking for some gnarley mustaches for use in a photoshop job and hit the floor when I was educated on how the mustache was invented. Not sure much more is really needed to say.

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