And later KCBH "City of Beverly Hills"
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Wrong, Tomás.
Reflecting its ownership at the time, "Crawford's (Music Store), Beverly Hills."
Thank you I stand corrected!
The difference being, HD abruptly stops at that point. No graceful fading into the noise like analog signals.
HD-1 at least has the analog signal to fall back on. HD2, HD3, etc. just go away.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Just as we learned was the case when television moved from analog to digital. The physics are unforgiving.
Dodgers "Audio" Network sounds pretty good on HD! Wouldn't the visitors to this site prefer to listen on a radio than a phone?
Few people have "a radio" except in their car any longer. I'll bet there are many, like myself, who have no radio in their home or office that is not just an "emergency radio" in a drawer or part of the old "stereo" than never gets turned on any more.
But my home has a half dozen Amazon "Alexa" devices, each of us has an iPhone and an iPad and a laptop as well. If we want audio, we don't need a separate device.
A few weeks ago, we did some Spring housecleaning. I sent to Goodwill some old kitchen and bedroom radios, several prior generation video cards and two 6 to 7 year old laptops. All were refused, and my handyman who took them said he was told, "we don't take old computer stuff and don't take radios at all. Nobody wants them."
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So Ebay them. I just searched completed sales for Philips CD clock radio (randomly picking a second-tier brand) and nearly every listing sold for between $25-$40 + shipping. Very few black (unsold) listings, nearly all of them are green (sold).
I forgot what I was reading
How come DAB Radio was gaining ground vs HD in the U.S?
Like no one hear in the U.s would buy HD Radios, There old Radio's work just fine
In the U.K there buying DAB Radio's
How come DAB Radio was gaining ground vs HD in the U.S?
Like no one hear in the U.s would buy HD Radios, There old Radio's work just fine
In the U.K there buying DAB Radio's
The places where DAB has been "successful" is where the national government has signficantly greater control over broadcasting than we have in the USA.
England did not have local commercial radio for the first half-century of broadcasting. And when commercial radio was permitted, it was in a form more limited than in the U.S.A.
So, when the "powers that be" decided to "move radio" to the digital band, there was much less opposition that would have taken place in the U.S.A. On the other hand, we picked a system that supposedly enhanced existing stations without changing their coverage, market position or competitive situation.
Note that nowhere in the Western Hemisphere has DAB been adopted as a replacement or complement to AM and FM. While AM is dying everywhere... at different rates in different nations... no nation has substituted DAB for the existing system. Brazil expanded the FM band. But from Mexico to Argentina, we have AM and FM and no DAB because the systems are much more free enterprise dominated and far less dictated by government.
We have several posters who are in England who can compare their system and the politics that drive the economy there. Let's ask them, Mario, for some first hand input for comparison.
