A frequent theme of my posts - especially in the winter months - is how much crappier the weather is here in Rochester, compared to whatever warm-weather spot I visited for that week's IDs.

Not this week. It's a pleasant 62 or so outside the Official Toppy Northeast Window - and 95 degrees just before 9 PM local time in Palm Springs, California, source of our IDs this week and next. Tomorrow's forecast? High of 104. With thunderstorms. And going up to 109 on Saturday.

But do please ask me again in January…

Up tonight on the site is part two of three of the legal IDs I recorded during my trip to Chicago earlier this month. Included with this are the legal IDs for a pair of stations that made the move from the analog/HD signal to an HD2 side-channel: Oldies WJMK-HD2 and Smooth Jazz WNUA-HD2. Next week I'll be posting the final installment of IDs from my trip.

That's what my pal Chris Carmichael calls his market over at his excellent SDRadio.net website, where you'll find all sorts of news and photos about San Diego radio and TV.

And when you're done looking at Chris' site, c'mon back over here for a heaping helping of FM IDs from our visit last April to San Diego (and nearby Tijuana, with Chris at the wheel…)

I happened to be in Chicago for a couple of days earlier this week, finding myself there to attend, of all things, a Tuesday afternoon wedding involving a good friend of mine who I worked with in my TV news days in Tampa who now lives in Seattle.

With less than 48 hours total spent in the Windy City, I found myself with a challenge, trying to record as much radio as I could, especially many of the plentiful HD2/HD3 stations in the city.

I did my best, and part one from the trip is now up on the Chicago page. Take a listen to the newly flipped Spanish WNUA, the pair of AM stations that I landed that also have HD side-channel simulcasts on the FM dial, and the legal ID from the outstanding HD2 dance music station "B-96 Dance" on WBBM-FM-HD2.

Next week: a listen to a couple of stations that have made the move from a primary FM signal to an HD2 side-channel.

Well originally I was planning on going up to NH again this weekend, but the terrible weather forecast talked me out of that. Turns out today was a decent day, oh well. At least it allows me to do another update! Here's some IDs not exactly from the area that I would've been but instead enjoy the new material from Burlington-Plattsburgh, Keene-Brattleboro, and Lebannon-Claremont-Rutland. The ID from 92.1 WVTK obviously isn't correct, as they named plenty of cities and towns, but they weren't able to get the correct one in there after the calls.

That's what they call San Diego, and sitting here in the windy drizzle of an upstate New York June evening, it's hard to argue the point.

Plus, they get lots of stations out there that start with "X," and you'll hear some of 'em on today's update…with more "X" and "K" FMs coming next week.

(One more bonus: the KBIG-FM Los Angeles ID I forgot to post last week…)

It hasn't relocated to its new city of license of Bellevue, TN yet, but there is a station (WFGZ) slated to move its coverage zone there soon, which will allow it to reach the west side of Nashville with a city-grade signal. I happened to catch it in its current incarnation during my recent travels, and it's up here tonight.

Also new this evening are the first-ever AM stations out of Bowling Green, KY to be represented on this site, along with a pair of IDs for stations rimshotting the Jackson, TN market.

Hey…that'd be a good name for a song!

Anyway: tonight, new stuff from Atlanta, some of which is kinda old school, thanks to Jason Smith.

Enjoy the rest of your DTV Transition Day.

So get this: it turns out that at the end of this week, they're turning off all the analog TV stations! All of 'em, just *poof*! You'd think someone might have mentioned something about this at some point, instead of just dumping this out there without any warning…

Oh well. At least I have a big batch of Los Angeles IDs to keep me company after the TV goes to snow.

Because radio…that'll never go digital, right?

A few months back, I started cleaning out my pending folder of Boston IDs. Well, I never finished, and even this update won't be the end of the Boston audio currently on my hard drive. It is, however all of the Boston material that I have on there that's been properly edited for toppy. There are still some from early '08 and before that were not yet edited to the proper format, and those will eventually find there way up here too. So enjoy the new audio from Boston, as we approach the 500 ID mark for the market that I call home!

In the next week or so, I hope to edit some of the audio recorded during my trip into Scott's territory of upstate New York last week. I noticed that we were missing IDs from quite a few stations in Syracuse, so many of those holes will be filled very soon.