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102.7 HD2 is Still Playing Christmas Music

BruceS8852

BruceS8852

Today is January 6 and 102.7 HD2 is still playing Christmas music. This shows how little managers in the radio business care about their HD2 and HD3 stations. I would love for that station to recreate WNEW-FM in its prime years. Likewise, is it necessary to reboadcast WCBS 880 on 101.1 HD2. I would love to hear a 1955-63 oldies station there. Kudos to WFUV who has programmed a unique station, The Alternate Side, at 90.7 HD3.

Bruce
 
BruceS8852 said:
Today is January 6 and 102.7 HD2 is still playing Christmas music. This shows how little managers in the radio business care about their HD2 and HD3 stations.

Bruce
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I'd disagree. For many there is a Christmas season, which runs the "12 Days of Christmas". For those that are Christian today is Little Christmas / Feast of the Epiphany. Not everyone chucks their tree and lights just because the commercialization of the holiday is over. WQXR is still running their holiday stream too. I suppose everyone must be asleep at the wheel.
 
@Thataveragejoe - I understand your point about the 12 days of Christmas, but after Dec 25 how many people want to hear continuous Christmas music?

In general, I think a major reason HD radio failed is that there is little good programming on HD2 and HD3 stations. Right now the only station that appeals to me is 106.7 HD2 which is country. I enjoyed smooth jazz on 101.9 HD2, but it left when WFAN moved to FM.

Bruce
 
The "Holidays and Happenings" music channel on Direct TV, is still airing Christmas music today.

We'll see tomorrow 1/7, if they eliminated that.
 
Radio seems more than willing to kill IBOC/HD Radio by - in most cases - starving it for any interesting programming. Putting NewsRadio 880 on WCBS-FM-HD2 makes sense as the AM product is made UN-listenable by their AM-HD signal.
 
MajorArmstrong said:
Radio seems more than willing to kill IBOC/HD Radio by - in most cases - starving it for any interesting programming.
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Or just not fixing the equipment when it has problems. See Clear Channel Hartford.
 
Today is Orthodox Christmas, celebrated by Orthodox Christians from Russia and other places around the world.
But if they are still playing Christmas music tomorrow 1/8, I don't think any argument can be made to justify that ;D.
 
BruceS8852 said:
A Facebook friend reports that 102.7 HD2 is still playing Christmas music. Apparently someone is asleep.

Bruce
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Seriously, what is your axe to grind here? Choice is never bad and no one is taking away your main channel programming. We already know few to none listen to HD radio anyway. As the old story goes, if it's not what you want to hear turn the dial.
 
thataveragejoe said:
BruceS8852 said:
A Facebook friend reports that 102.7 HD2 is still playing Christmas music. Apparently someone is asleep.

Bruce
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Seriously, what is your axe to grind here? Choice is never bad and no one is taking away your main channel programming. We already know few to none listen to HD radio anyway. As the old story goes, if it's not what you want to hear turn the dial.
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The obsession with Christmas formats on these boards is incomprehensible. I thought I was a radio geek, but you guys have it all over me if preoccupation with holiday programming is a must.
 
thataveragejoe said:
BruceS8852 said:
A Facebook friend reports that 102.7 HD2 is still playing Christmas music. Apparently someone is asleep.

Bruce
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Seriously, what is your axe to grind here? Choice is never bad and no one is taking away your main channel programming. We already know few to none listen to HD radio anyway. As the old story goes, if it's not what you want to hear turn the dial.
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What about HD taking away the choice of 102.5 or 102.9?
 
Nick said:
luperm said:
Nick said:
What about HD taking away the choice of 102.5 or 102.9?
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What choice? In the NY area there is nothing but pirates on those channels.
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WBAZ, WMGK, WDRC
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Ya, a small class A out on easter LI playing the same AC music as every other station, a station from Philly( ???) and a station from Central CT. Yea HD is realllllly taking your choices away in NYC. Everyone be careful around this guy. ;D
 
As WWFS HD2 is still playing Christmas music, and running sweepers stating that the music is there to help us get ready for the holidays, it seems fair to consider this a neglected HD channel.
I hope this will not be as bad as WWPR HD2, which has been transmitting nothing but open carrier and occasional audio from voicetracking, for over 6 months.
Another local setback for HD radio is that WVIP 93.5, which has been the only station in the area with an HD4, has not broadcast anything other than HD1 for about 2 months.
 
101.9 is still not in HD. HD radio is so neglected, we have dead air for months, no HD2 service for months, HD carrier off the air for months, and now Christmas music on an HD2 well into January.
 
There is really only one VALID use for HD channels, now... and that is to skirt the FCC Rules about locally originated programming on translators. Since almost nobody actually listens to HD channels, why not use them as STLs for analog translators? Now, station owners can plop translators in cities they want to reach, and run the programming through one of their existing stations' HD channels, to feed the x-lators. (One station could feed at LEAST two analog translators in each area with unique formats, in good enough fidelity.) They can add as many x-lators as they can get their hands on, and have a whole network... skirting the Rules nicely. ::)

It's happening in CT... and it's apparently working. Imagine getting a 250 watt radio station in Bridgeport, CT? Just STL the content from a station in Waterbury on an HD2 channel. All of a sudden, BPT has a "brand new" radio station with pretty decent coverage.
 
Anyone want to bet on which day 102.7-HD2 will stop the Christmas music for good? The HD going off the air permanently also counts.

I kind of hope it'll go all year. When it's 100 degrees in July I'll enjoy hearing the Christmas music on 102.7-HD2.
 
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