"So far, it's a mixed outlook for HD Radio... " is the headline on Brian Maloney's commentary posted this morning (Friday) on the Inside Radio web site (link below).
Brian is aware that there are there are problems with signal coverage, mainly from reading internet postings. (He probably hasn't discovered radio-info.com. If he had, he'd be aware that the technical problems go far beyond coverage!)
But he is aware that the "lackluster" programming approaches on HD2's, which he characterizes as "Mere afterthoughts," won't sell any receivers.
It's a very promising sign to see someone who's so much a part of the radio establishment painting the future of iNiquity's half-baked technology as unpromising.
(Note: If you want to read it, do it now before it disappears, probably on Monday, 12/4. I wanted to post a link to his Wednesday column on another topic on a different board, but it was taken down before I got around to it. Of course, that one will probably show up on Brian's archive, for which there's a link on the Inside Radio home page, in a couple of weeks. This one, however, may not. There may be great pressure from the IBOC forces to suppress it. So grab it while you can!)
http://www.insideradio.com/pdheadlines.asp?phid=449931&PT=Today's+Top+Stories
Brian is aware that there are there are problems with signal coverage, mainly from reading internet postings. (He probably hasn't discovered radio-info.com. If he had, he'd be aware that the technical problems go far beyond coverage!)
But he is aware that the "lackluster" programming approaches on HD2's, which he characterizes as "Mere afterthoughts," won't sell any receivers.
It's a very promising sign to see someone who's so much a part of the radio establishment painting the future of iNiquity's half-baked technology as unpromising.
(Note: If you want to read it, do it now before it disappears, probably on Monday, 12/4. I wanted to post a link to his Wednesday column on another topic on a different board, but it was taken down before I got around to it. Of course, that one will probably show up on Brian's archive, for which there's a link on the Inside Radio home page, in a couple of weeks. This one, however, may not. There may be great pressure from the IBOC forces to suppress it. So grab it while you can!)
http://www.insideradio.com/pdheadlines.asp?phid=449931&PT=Today's+Top+Stories