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2 new AM HD stations

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1q2w3e

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WOKY AM 920 Milwaukee, WI and WNCT 1070 Greenville, NC are now running HD on AM.
 
1q2w3e said:
WOKY AM 920 Milwaukee, WI and WNCT 1070 Greenville, NC are now running HD on AM.
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What, is their business-model ?

"RW Opinion: Rethinking AM’s future"

"Only 175 or so AM stations have even licensed AM-HD. For a number of reasons, quite a few have tried it and taken it off the air, or so the anecdotal evidence suggests. (Ibiquity no longer reports in its public summaries whether a station is on the air). Making AM-HD work well as a long-term investment is seen as an expensive and risky challenge for most stations and their owners. With the bulk of successful AMs airing news, talk and sports, the improved fidelity advantage of HD and stereo seem only marginally attractive. There is the significant downside of potential new interference to some of their own AM analog listeners as well as listeners of adjacent-channel stations. And of course we still have no nighttime authority for AM-HD."

http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html
 
BUSINESS MODEL? OH MY GOD, what is the "business model" of HDTV? It's to attract as many warm bodies as possible around the radio, so you can freakin' sell to them when you run commercials. The same "business model" that has kept radio resiliant, and profitable for more than seven decades. That's the only "business model" allowed to commercial radio and tv stations, by the way, Freakin' DUH!

"What's your stupid question 700?" "Well it's 'what's the business model of stations broadcasting in HD?' Gee...I think it's to make the radios edible...so everyone will buy a new radio every time they get hungry! GET REAL!
 
Mike Walker said:
BUSINESS MODEL? OH MY GOD, what is the "business model" of HDTV? It's to attract as many warm bodies as possible around the radio, so you can freakin' sell to them when you run commercials. The same "business model" that has kept radio resiliant, and profitable for more than seven decades. That's the only "business model" allowed to commercial radio and tv stations, by the way, Freakin' DUH!

"What's your stupid question 700?" "Well it's 'what's the business model of stations broadcasting in HD?' Gee...I think it's to make the radios edible...so everyone will buy a new radio every time they get hungry! GET REAL!
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If stations, are going to invest up-front sums of $100,000 - $150,000, plus on-going fees, that money needs to be recouped - iNiquity, is the only company, that is going to be making money off this farce. There will never be enough HD radios, in circulation, to justify these types of expenses.
 
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