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102.7 HD2 in NYC is Still Playing Christmas Music

BruceS8852

BruceS8852

This shows the sad state of HD radio. Today is January 15th and 102.7 HD2 is still playing Christmas music. It is obvious that the managers at WWFS, a CBS owned station, don't care about the subchannels. In essence they are wasting electricity.

Bruce
 
There you have it! Arguably the industry's loudest-braying HD proponent "embracing digital's future."

That would be - apparently - Elmo & Patsy, and the Barking Dogs. :D
 
Call the station and tell them that there's something wrong. Be sure and count how many times you get transferred, until you find an employee who knows what an "HD Radio" is, and doesn't think you're nuts.

Why don't stations educate their people on any of this stuff?
 
The HD-2 streams online and its still playing Christmas Music:
http://betaplayer.radio.com/player/fresh-hd2

Its surprising though, because if HD Radio were able to be successful anywhere, it would be somewhere like NYC where there is a large dense population. But the fact that we are 15 days into January and listeners haven't complained to the station makes me think nobody is listening or the station doesn't care.
 
Yes. Only a blundering, blind "cookie-cutter corporate company" could come up with an idea as stupid as HD Radio. So small wonder that they've taken a bad concept and made it worse through ineptitude and laziness.

25 years ago, before the corporate takeover of America's entrepreneurial medium, HD would never have made it out of the starting gate. Common sense, competence, hands-on management and engineering wisdom would have killed it in its crib.
 
No, this is just a brilliant programming move on the part of CBS. They're getting a jump on the holiday shopping season, which starts earlier and earlier every year.
 
diymedia said:
No, this is just a brilliant programming move on the part of CBS. They're getting a jump on the holiday shopping season, which starts earlier and earlier every year.
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Should "brilliant programming move" and "CBS" be used in the same sentence?
 
I went to this board this morning to post the exact same thing. Here in Boston--CBS owned WODS HD 3 also is bleting out the Christmas "Hits" for the MLK weekend! And, on their HD 2 station, they loop a small play list of oldies just to say they are keeping "Oldies 103" alive. Just one big f>>>ing joke!!
 
OFFICENERD said:
I went to this board this morning to post the exact same thing. Here in Boston--CBS owned WODS HD 3 also is bleting out the Christmas "Hits" for the MLK weekend! And, on their HD 2 station, they loop a small play list of oldies just to say they are keeping "Oldies 103" alive. Just one big f>>>ing joke!!
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HD is one big F>>>ing joke period.
 
One better - at least when I just went to their webplayer, the "Fresh/Stale 102.7-HD2", the audio is in "karaoke mode" so the lead vocals are all but gone! - so as George Carlin would call it: "A Mongolian Cluster f*** ".
 
Just take the HD off. There's nothing to listen to on HD2 of WWFS anyway.

-crainbebo
 
This is just proof that no one is listening to HD radio. New York and Boston both have Christmas stations on HD2. No one complained about it on the respective stations' Facebook pages. The stations don't care themselves.

When a master antenna failure took the Empire State Building FMs off the air for a few hours in 2011, there were plenty of complaints.

I also noticed 95.1 KLQT-HD2 in Albuquerque, NM was still playing Christmas music as of January 14
 
It's a chicken and egg situation: the radio stations say no one is listening so they neglect their subchannels, but no one is listening because the radio stations don't give a good flying flip about making sure the content is worth listening to. No one is going to buy a radio that doesn't give them what they want to hear, and no radio station is going to install HD and program alternative content without the radio base to justify it.

So that leaves us in this suspended state of almost giving a damn but not enough to do anything interesting. Someone needs to pull a trigger: either make the subchannels compelling and make sure they're working 24/7, or turn all the HD off and be done with it. Either way SOMETHING will be done, so us bunch of radio geeks can stop arguing in circles.
 
Zach said:
It's a chicken and egg situation: the radio stations say no one is listening so they neglect their subchannels, but no one is listening because the radio stations don't give a good flying flip about making sure the content is worth listening to. No one is going to buy a radio that doesn't give them what they want to hear, and no radio station is going to install HD and program alternative content without the radio base to justify it.

So that leaves us in this suspended state of almost giving a damn but not enough to do anything interesting. Someone needs to pull a trigger: either make the subchannels compelling and make sure they're working 24/7, or turn all the HD off and be done with it. Either way SOMETHING will be done, so us bunch of radio geeks can stop arguing in circles.
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SOMETHING is being done, it's just not happening fast enough.
 
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