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A Pair Of HD2 Stations Show In KC Ratings

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Laurence Glavin

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I just glanced at the ratings for Kansas City, MO&KS/Independence, MO at Tom Taylor's blog, and a pair of HD2s showed up in the ratings for that market: KCMO-HD2 with a comedy format, and KCFX-HD2 with something called "The Dam". Is anyone aware of other markets with HD2s or 3s showing up, and why hasn't a Boston HD2 made the list?
 
Laurence Glavin said:
I just glanced at the ratings for Kansas City, MO&KS/Independence, MO at Tom Taylor's blog, and a pair of HD2s showed up in the ratings for that market: KCMO-HD2 with a comedy format, and KCFX-HD2 with something called "The Dam". Is anyone aware of other markets with HD2s or 3s showing up, and why hasn't a Boston HD2 made the list?
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Both of those stations are broadcasting their HD-2 signals on FM translators--which is the only way HD-2 signals are showing up right now in the PPMs (a modern rocker in Atlanta comes to mind and WAMU's bluegrass station in Washington, both of which are simulcasting on translators--seems to me that CBS' HFS stream in Baltimore is also on a translator in Washington, as well).
 
OK, then why aren't call letters like (I'm making this up) K264BK or W245BN listed as the stations in question when this happens? (I imagine this isn't likely to happen with W242AA in Cambridge/Beacon Hill...I mean it's REALLY WEAK!)
 
What "PPM encoder of the translator"?

The translator doesn't have its own separate PPM encoder. If it's fed off the air, the PPM encoding from the originating signal is passed through (by default; there is no way, AFAIK, to strip out PPM encoding from an audio stream); if it's fed by other means, the feed comes after the main station's PPM encoder and carries the same encoding as the main station (or the main station's subchannel, as the case may be.)
 
I know that we have a unique encoder for our stream. If our levels drop below a certain threshold, a warning light goes on.

But the HD-2, would have to have it's own encoder to be received. Each signal is unique. The meter doesn't differentiate. It picks up whichever PPM signal it reads. Any HD-2 signal, would be a unique PPM code.

At least that's what Arbitron tells us.
 
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