Audacy discontinuing HD2 to save money?

[NoMoreLurking]

Just FYI, SomaFM's stats for right now (5:30pm Friday) with the peak being concurrents in the last 24 hours. Normally Tue/Wed are our biggest audience days. (We have a bunch of less popular channels too, our total aggregate tuning hours per month is in the 5.5-6m range. We are a "Shoutcast-type" stream

I'm involved with a "Shoutcast-type" stream that regularly logs concurrents in the 2000-2300 range, usually between about 7 and 9am on weekdays. Right now, 4pm Tuesday, we show 1518 concurrent listeners. I'm talking about one single streaming music channel, unlike Rusty's SomaFM which has multiple popular music channels.

 

[Mark Roberts]

As of last year, 290 million vehicles were registered in the USA. 50 million have HD-capable radios. So that's---what?---a shade under 17 and a half percent.

Not only is it older cars, but some manufacturers save HD for their audio system upgrades in higher trim levels---so there's a certain percentage of new cars that are not HD-capable, either.

And then one also has to consider the configuration of the radio. My 2019 Audi has HD reception capability. But, by default, it was turned off when I got the car. I had to go through the menus to turn it on. I wanted it on because I wanted KFRC-FM-HD2 and KITS-HD2. I guess I can free up those presets now.