Radio Changelog

Radio Changelog

All notable changes to the Jon's Spot Radio directory (/radio, radio_stations, radio_hosts, streaming, mining, and station-page features).

2026-07-24 — Public changelog in footer

Added

• Public /changelog/ page rendered from CHANGELOG-radio.md.
• Footer now links to the tool-specific changelog ("Radio changelog" on the radio host).

2026-07-24 — Host photo mining + social avatar fallback

Added

• station_site host-photo mining (--host-photos) now extracts <img> tags from staff/bio pages and writes radio_hosts.photo_url.
• host_social_photos adapter: fetches public social profile pages and reads og:image as a photo_url fallback.
• --exclude-domains CLI flag to skip portal hosts like cbc.ca / radio-canada.ca.
• --has-hosts ordering now sorts by host_count DESC so host-photo passes hit real rosters first.
• Automatic host bio_url page fetching inside station_site when --host-photos is on.
• More staff-page path guesses (/hosts, /personalities, /presenters, /bios, /shows, /equipe, /animateurs, etc.).

Results

• 251 host photos mined from station staff/bio pages into local radio_hosts.photo_url.
• host_socials dry-run over the top 20 non-CBC roster stations found 0 host-specific social links; station-wide social handles do not match individual host names, so the social-avatar fallback remains ready but has no verified host socials to consume yet.

Fixed

• Awaited mineHostPhotos() after adding async bio_url fetching; previous sync call caused "database is not open" error.
• host_socials adapter now actually passes --has-hosts / --exclude-domains to listStations() and matches social handles directly (with a tight context fallback) so station-wide links are no longer pinned to a random host.

2026-07-23 — Live rebroadcaster merge + streaming v4 + UX polish

Added

• Rebroadcasters merged into parent stations: 798 repeaters canonicalized to 849 parents, real HTTP 308 via proxy.ts.
• Real-device rebroadcaster v2 fix: 51 -HD sub-channels merged, 18 wrong v1 merges repointed.
• Online Radio Canada stream mining v4: +220 streams, prod streamed stations 610 → 830.
• Radio-browser stream mining v3: +550 streams, prod streamed stations 60 → 610.
• In-page live stream player (HLS .m3u8, native MP3/AAC, .pls external link).
• Site-wide PWA: manifest, service worker, icons.
• Radio default view now shows FM Edmonton/Toronto first.
• City + province + served_area search on /radio/.
• CBC "Publicly funded" badge + public-broadcasting explainer.
• Station OG images render logo_url / cover_image_url with timeout/https/type checks.

Changed

• Station list cards + station page now show "stations and transmitters" wording and exclude repeaters.
• Repeater locations listed under parent "Also broadcast on".

2026-07-21 — Radio directory launch + core data

Added

• /radio directory seeded with 4,052 stations.
• Slug URLs for stations (name-city-province), old UUID URLs 308 → slug.
• Public funding badge + radio_funding table + CBC/Open Canada adapters.
• MP offices outreach: 314 offices written to radio_outreach.
• Wikipedia enrichment: website_url 60→205, owner_group 160→1,735, city 3→1,604.
• station_site contact mining: 3,635 contacts across 609 stations.
• Online Radio Canada website discovery: +418 websites.
• GA4 event tracking for radio interactions.

Removed

• Listener request-line feature (replaced by email-based artist submissions from station pages).

2026-07-20 — Radio database seeded

Added

• radio_stations, radio_hosts, radio_contacts, radio_claims, radio_station_owners, radio_station_genres schemas.
• 4,052 Canadian stations seeded from ETL pipeline.

Earlier — Pre-radio

• Venue Finder platform only; no radio features.