KRBE HD down

[rbrucecarter5]

In many metros, the ability to license a decent translator if you have an HD-2 or HD-3 to translate (woned or leased) makes HD very interesting to many broadcasters.

Because Over the Air broadcasters are much more interested in other platforms than in additions to the FM platform, there is not much focus on pure-play HD channels. But there is profit in the HD + Translator formula.



"Ugly and disgusting" translates into "realists".

The formats you describe generally can not sustain the cost of operation of a station. Not "taste" but reality. What you are complaining about is no different than lamenting the decline in the number of pay phones in America.

Not knowing about a Tejano artist that had more hits in Houston than the "English speaking artist with the same name" just indicates that you are not aware of your local culture and environment and are missing great experiences.

P.S. Selena Quintanilla was primarily "English Speaking" and had to be tutored in Spanish to make her first recordings. Her family's Texas heritage is likely generations deeper than yours.

I probably was a bit over the top with the troll comment. But the amount of disrespect shown to me is inappropriate in any professional forum. Pay phone booths? Really? Is there any other way you wish to insult me today? And every other oldies, smooth jazz, classical, active rock, dance, etc. fan in the country?

Tried Tejano a couple of times, besides the frustration of not understanding a single word, the style of music grated on me. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not used to it. Sorry.

Selena Q was smokin' hot. Not a big fan of the songs I heard, because they were soft rock. Besides KVIL in past decades, I haven't listened to soft rock in a long time. The format pretty much fizzled. But like every guy in the country, I was looking forward to seeing Selena Q in movies, TV shows, etc. Darn shame. What is it with obsessed fans? John Lennon, Selena Q, how many others have be been robbed of? Selena G is smokin' hot, thank goodness she isn't on this forum so I can freely say - I'm not a fan of her music either. I know that's horrible, and makes me a horrible friend, but its just not my preferred style. I've had to stop buying records and DVD's of people I know, it gets expensive and I never listen / watch most of it.

Nice to know the trivia about Selena Q. Maybe it will come in handy in a trivia game some day. Sorry I am lazy not to type out Quintanilla and Gomez all the time. As for my Texas heritage, 1926 on one side and 1927 on the other so you are probably right. But as far as American, Edward Bosworth on the William and Mary, the ship after the Mayflower. Six ancestors in the American Revolution. So I freely admit to being biased in an English speaking direction.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Again She wasn't foreign she was American born in Texas. And there's no Foreign language in USA. No official language either.

Good for her. Just recorded in a language that is irrelevant to anybody not born into a Spanish speaking heritage. There are plenty of foreign languages in the USA. I hear a lot of different languages on the radio. I don't bother to listen to them, either. I don't speak foreign. Any foreign. If I don't understand the words, I'm not going to be interested. Sorry. Just the way it is. And I suspect the way most people are. It is not my fault when a minority group freely chooses to use a language not understood by the majority of people around them - and isolate themselves that way. If I were an advertiser wanting to sell to them, I'd buy advertising on their stations. Doesn't mean I would listen.

 

[davideduardo]

I probably was a bit over the top with the troll comment. But the amount of disrespect shown to me is inappropriate in any professional forum. Pay phone booths? Really? Is there any other way you wish to insult me today? And every other oldies, smooth jazz, classical, active rock, dance, etc. fan in the country?

At the worst, I am telling you to "get real". That is not an insult. Just a call to take a look around you. It's 2017. The formats you name can't make money for their owners. But you have many online options. I just asked "Alexa" to play those formats and got nice selections for all of them. You have options; don't expect station owners to lose money on your behalf.

As I said, things that don't get consumer support fade away. Like pay phones.

Tried Tejano a couple of times, besides the frustration of not understanding a single word, the style of music grated on me. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not used to it. Sorry.

I did not grow up on heavy metal. Much of it grates on me. That is called "personal preference" or "taste". I do not dislike the music, though. I respect it. I just don't listen to it by choice. Tejano is perhaps the only music native to the state you live in, so it's worthy of some respect as it is part of the culture that makes Texas just a bit different from other states.

Nice to know the trivia about Selena Q. Maybe it will come in handy in a trivia game some day. Sorry I am lazy not to type out Quintanilla and Gomez all the time. As for my Texas heritage, 1926 on one side and 1927 on the other so you are probably right. But as far as American, Edward Bosworth on the William and Mary, the ship after the Mayflower. Six ancestors in the American Revolution. So I freely admit to being biased in an English speaking direction.

I read somewhere that a huge percentage of white Americans can trace some ancestor back to colonial times. If you do the math on the number of generations since then, it's not even surprising.

To put things in perspective I have an anecdote. When I was in Ecuador, I met a girl who was in the Peace Corps whose name was Olguin and she was from Albuquerque. She spoke no Spanish. I asked about that, and she said that nobody in her family had spoken Spanish since "maybe around 1820". She then mentioned that her family had received a land grant from the King of Spain in the late 16th Century that was about a million or two of today's acres in what is now New Mexico. There had been Olguins there since then. And that is the heritage of that state, which is, as it was then, over 50% Hispanic.

 

[johndavis]

Again She wasn't foreign she was American born in Texas. And there's no Foreign language in USA. No official language either.

Heck, I only know enough Spanish to know when I am being sworn at, but when you say "Selena" I think of the Tejano one. I've never heard of anyone refer to Selena Gomez as anything other than Selena Gomez, because well, the other Selena *is* Selena.

While I don't listen to her on a regular basis, I know a handful of her songs, sung in both English and Spanish. Having played my share of wedding gigs in this town, I've gotten to know what Tejano and Cumbia songs pack a dance floor... as well as classic country, rock, hip hop, and other cultures, all in the same night. Houston is a melting pot. This ain't Vidor. So Bidi Bidi Bom is a not-so-secret weapon when the floor is starting to thin. Ditto for Elvis Crespo. Shaking your rump knows no language.

 

[Mrtejano]

I hear a lot of different languages on the radio. I don't bother to listen to them, either. I don't speak foreign. If I don't understand the words, I'm not going to be interested. Sorry. Just the way it is. And I suspect the way most people are. It is not my fault when a minority group freely chooses to use a language not understood by the majority of people around them - and isolate themselves that way. If I were an advertiser wanting to sell to them, I'd buy advertising on their stations. Doesn't mean I would listen.

So You don't listen to any programming in English either? Since that is also Foreign, only Non Foreign is Native American like Apache, Cherokee etc etc.

 

[davideduardo]

Heck, I only know enough Spanish to know when I am being sworn at, but when you say "Selena" I think of the Tejano one. I've never heard of anyone refer to Selena Gomez as anything other than Selena Gomez, because well, the other Selena *is* Selena.

In that Selena Gomez was named after the Tejano singer, that's quite a logical way to think about both of them.

While Wikipedia is not the ed-all of factual data, here is what they say,

"Selena Marie Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas on July 22, 1992,[7] to Ricardo Joel Gomez and former stage actress Amanda Dawn "Mandy" Cornett.[8][9][10] Gomez was named after Tejano singer and actress Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, who died in 1995.[11][12"

If one goes to the actual article, the footnotes support the fact that she was named after Selena Quintanilla, who was at the peak of her popularity in Dallas and other Texas markets at the time of her birth.


Further: From "Latin Times":

http://www.latintimes.com/selena-go...s-why-she-was-named-after-queen-tejano-383518

Selena Gomez recently hung out with Doug Lazy of Sacramento’s NOW 100.5 and talked about many things, including her love for Selena Quintanilla and the Quintanilla family. “My dad and mom were huge fans,” said Gomez to the radio personality, reports The Huffington Post. The Mexican-American songstress and actress, who was born three years before Selena's passing revealed that she was not going to be called Selena. In fact, her parents had another pretty name in mind. “My name was going to be Priscilla, but my cousin actually took the name when she was born six months before me," she added. "My parent's loved Selena's music. So, they just named me after her."

 

[ContinuousWave]

Again She wasn't foreign she was American born in Texas. And there's no Foreign language in USA. No official language either.

Except English IS the official language of the US Government...but not the country....

 

[stan]

Getting back to HD, my observation is that some auto manufacturers install it, yet others do not, even on autos with Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Case in point, we rented a new Chevy Malibu recently in Montana and used the CarPlay feature almost exclusively. Could listen to music on my phone, Pandora, or podcasts. On the other hand, if there were HD stations out there we couldn't hear them.

 

[2Speakers]

Getting back to HD, my observation is that some auto manufacturers install it, yet others do not, even on autos with Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Case in point, we rented a new Chevy Malibu recently in Montana and used the CarPlay feature almost exclusively. Could listen to music on my phone, Pandora, or podcasts. On the other hand, if there were HD stations out there we couldn't hear them.

I'd guess there isn't a lot of HD in Montana. In a lot of small markets, the only HD station is the local NPR affiliate, if even that.

 

[Mrtejano]

Except English IS the official language of the US Government...but not the country....

It is not, but what can you expect? They're not going to make up a new language.

 

[Mrtejano]

Getting back to HD, my observation is that some auto manufacturers install it, yet others do not, even on autos with Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Case in point, we rented a new Chevy Malibu recently in Montana and used the CarPlay feature almost exclusively. Could listen to music on my phone, Pandora, or podcasts. On the other hand, if there were HD stations out there we couldn't hear them.

Should the governor do something similar to what they did to Tv? Mandate Radio to be on Hd only?

 

[BamaTX]

Should the governor do something similar to what they did to Tv? Mandate Radio to be on Hd only?

Governor? There's nothing...absolutely nothing the Texas Governor can do about radio. That responsibility falls on the federal agency known as the FCC.

Going full HD would be a useless move at this point. The only reason TV went digital was to vacate spectrum for cellular and public safety use. The FM band isn't "adequate" for cellular.

 

[stan]

Should the governor do something similar to what they did to Tv? Mandate Radio to be on Hd only?

I think your question is whether the government (FCC) should mandate HD. I doubt they will do what was done in Europe, but it would be entertaining to see us adopt the EU plan. You think there's complaining now...

As for our governor, he is more concerned about Dan Patrick in the women's rest room.

 

[davideduardo]

I think your question is whether the government (FCC) should mandate HD. I doubt they will do what was done in Europe, but it would be entertaining to see us adopt the EU plan. You think there's complaining now...

"Europe" did not mandate HD; in fact, HD is not used in Europe. A couple of countries have made different levels of transition to DAB, but the only near-complete one is Norway where there was limited commercial radio and a very small population.

DAB was tried in Canada, and abandoned.

In the US, there is no band allocated to use for exclusive HD broadcasting.

 

[Mediafrog+]

The only reason TV went digital was to vacate spectrum for cellular and public safety use.

Nonsense. TV went "digital" to allow for High-Definition, additional video streams, and a cleaner signal. That in of itself had nothing to do with spectrum reallocation. The reason for the reduction to 50 channels in 2009, and the current repack to 35 channels, is that the digital format and modern TV receivers allow much more efficient use of the UHF spectrum. This results in condensing the signal allocations and reallocating spectrum to modern technologies that have shown huge growth.

Analog TV was a spectrum hog, and the UHF band was used very inefficiently. The spectrum reallocation reflects current technological reality and is better use of a finite resource.

 

[Mrtejano]

At all this I meant GOVERNMENT not GOVERNOR this read a typo. Anyway I still want an HD RADIO thinking of purchasing one of those old ZUNE HD devices soon. Y'all be careful were under a flash flood warning.

 

[davideduardo]

Analog TV was a spectrum hog, and the UHF band was used very inefficiently. The spectrum reallocation reflects current technological reality and is better use of a finite resource.

The one area where digital TV is not better than analog is in the case of emergencies.

The few battery operated digital TV portables have very short charge life and need to be recharged often. They do not use replaceable batteries, so useless in an emergency. And DTV signals are not as robust in that sort of situation. So TV is pretty much useless in an emergency that causes power to go out.

 

[BamaTX]

Nonsense. TV went "digital" to allow for High-Definition, additional video streams, and a cleaner signal. That in of itself had nothing to do with spectrum reallocation. The reason for the reduction to 50 channels in 2009, and the current repack to 35 channels, is that the digital format and modern TV receivers allow much more efficient use of the UHF spectrum. This results in condensing the signal allocations and reallocating spectrum to modern technologies that have shown huge growth.

Analog TV was a spectrum hog, and the UHF band was used very inefficiently. The spectrum reallocation reflects current technological reality and is better use of a finite resource.

You really think the demand for more Long Term Evolution mobile data had nothing to do with accelerating the move? Going digital was a way to repurpose that spectrum and to sell it to the highest bidder again. Everybody won...Well, almost everyone. The consumer was stuck with an unreliable medium that is very iffy during natural disasters.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Bringing this thread back to its original topic: The KRBE HD is back up, including the oldies on the HD2. I would presume the Senior Road tower is back in operation, as some of the other FMs normally from that site are sounding a little stronger.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

As for our governor, he is more concerned about Dan Patrick in the women's rest room.

Can we PLEASE dispense with politics on this board?!