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Fall Ratings

Even though I'd love to see music return to KB, this may be the best idea yet.

"on demand" station on 1350 in New Orleans. Its working well for WWL.

Entercom should be ashamed of what has happened to KB. But yet, if one of us wanted to buy it, it would be overpriced.
 
I don't think you can move KB to the east. After all there is a station in the eastern part of NYC on 1520 if I'm not mistaken a daytimer. It might be short spaced if KB moved east.

I'm with Rad I love AM radio but it's over, done. IF you don't have the audience now with an established station forget trying to do a start up.

The KB format I would do....an upbeat, Adult Standards format. The problem is it would never get the sales and promotions attention the station would require or deserve.
 
Running an all comedy station was also my opinion quite some time ago.
The format is very cheap to run.
At best, it may only need a local morning show, and it doesn't have to be anyone big...

(btw, the djs at a good comedy radio station are actually called comedy jocks. "cjs" )
 
Are the jocks as funny as the bits, or just liner card readers? "Always ten comedy bits in a row... the most comedy bits allowed by law... and after this break... another non-stop set of rip-roarin' bits, including (insert comedian names here... and here... and here.)"

Does the big voice guy do bumpers like, "Keep it locked on the station that makes you laugh... even when we're not funny... cuz we take comedy, seriously! And that's no joke... K-Laff..." or "We'll keep you laughin' all day at work with the perfect blend of hip-happy bits that everybody in your office can agree on... K-Laff..."

[/yeah, somethin' like that]
 
Rumor has it one of the HD-2 channels soon to roll out will be an "All Comedy" channel. I don't know which station will carry it. Could be fun.
 
NeedsMoreCowbell said:
Rumor has it one of the HD-2 channels soon to roll out will be an "All Comedy" channel. I don't know which station will carry it. Could be fun.
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I can honestly say, I have rarely seen something so eagerly embraced by radio guys, that the public does not and will not give a flying %&^ about ...as is the case with HD radio.

It is definitely the AM stereo of this decade.

Embarrassing.
 
Re: Fall Ratings Morphing to HD

The guys on the work crew are into iPods although we still listen to good ol' analog FM. A few weeks ago I walked into the local Radio Shed store where their $100 HD was on display. It was silent, apparently unable to easily and consistently receive any of the Buffalo HD signals. That's one heck of a demo for HD!

I asked the friendly R-S sales guy to tune in the HD. He had to maneuver the dipole wire antenna to get an acceptable, consistent signal. To be truthful, the store is housed in a corrugated metal and cinderblock mall. The HD audio was the same as the analog audio. Where are all those "hidden channels" we hear about in the commercials?

When the salesman compared the HD and the analog, there was little noticeable difference. If you asked ten people, at random, what sounded better, they'd likely say the analog signal. That's one heck of a demo for HD!

This house painter concurs, HD could very well be FM's "AM stereo."
 
Our HD Future?

I'm not as convinced as others that HD radio will be a complete bust like AM stereo. Major broadcasters have made a serious (i.e. expensive) commitment to the technology for one simple reason - it expands the number of radio stations that they can put on the air. Oddly, I think that it will be more successful on FM than on AM because successful AM stations won't want to degrade their signal contours by going HD.

Am I convinced that Iniquity has the best HD product? Heck, no. It screws up the AM band for everybody - HD or not. The FM presentation actually can degrade the audio on the main channel, and the HD channel bandwidth can be narrow enough to sound as bad a satellite.

The biggest challenge to HD will be the expansion of WiMax technology, and the rollout of Wifi radios that will allow you to program your favorite streams to a bunch of push-buttons. The biggest problem with Wifi radio is likely to be that the content providers - radio stations - will need to significantly improve their stream bit-rates if the quality is going to compare to HD radio, let alone analog FM.

Here's where the satcasters may find a niche - providing higher quality streams of their exclusive content than they can offer via satellite. I suspect that they'll offer their streams with commercial content, while continuing to offer commercial-free content to subscribers.

Radio stations may counter with a similar split personality - commercial-free HD radio streams (which screw Iniquity out of their revenue cut) - and Internet streams with commercial content separate from their on-air sponsors, or sold in combo with their on-air sponsors. Reduced rates for these spots may allow more local businesses access to advertising, and allow broadcasters to reduce the number of commercial minutes per hour on the main channel.

Of course, there's always the danger that broadcasters will end up with lots of advertising options, multiple rate cards, and confused advertisers (and salespeople) who spread their dollars so thinly over multiple delivery systems that the advertising is virtually ineffective.
 
Re: Our HD Future?

SirRoxalot said:
I'm not as convinced as others that HD radio will be a complete bust like AM stereo. Major broadcasters have made a serious (i.e. expensive) commitment to the technology for one simple reason - it expands the number of radio stations that they can put on the air. Oddly, I think that it will be more successful on FM than on AM because successful AM stations won't want to degrade their signal contours by going HD.
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The shortwave equivalent, Digital Radio Mondiale ("DRM"), has been a complete bust so far.

The biggest challenge to HD will be the expansion of WiMax technology, and the rollout of Wifi radios that will allow you to program your favorite streams to a bunch of push-buttons. The biggest problem with Wifi radio is likely to be that the content providers - radio stations - will need to significantly improve their stream bit-rates if the quality is going to compare to HD radio, let alone analog FM.
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Like the Acoustic Energy AE-1? I suspect we are getting pretty close to feasibility with "Internet radios". To me, Windows Media or AACPlus at 128kbps is, for practical purposes, close enough to "high fidelity" to be useful most of the time, given that I'm either a) in the car, or b) at the kitchen sink, or c) working at my PC while I'm listening to the radio. I seldom listen in audiophile environments where true "CD quality" is needed. But that's my own situation.

Here's where the satcasters may find a niche - providing higher quality streams of their exclusive content than they can offer via satellite. I suspect that they'll offer their streams with commercial content, while continuing to offer commercial-free content to subscribers.
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Interesting concept...but is there enough good radio out there for satcasters to make it worth their while?

Richard in Allentown
 
I think it's safe to say that HD is not ready for Prime Time yet, but terrestrial broadcasters aren't stupid. The technology will improve, new compression schemes are coming out every couple of months, the bandwidth is there to exploit. If it wasn't going to make money for them, the Clear Channels and Entercoms of the world wouldn't be playing those ubiquitous HD Radio commercials every hour. It is going to be interesting in the next 3-5 years to see HD, Satellite, (and iPod hookups) standard in new vehicles.
 
So then, HD is a better sell right now, than D.A.B. (digital Audio Broadcasting) was in Canada?

There was a very good radio jingle for it and everything, but the recievers just didn't sell. DAB failed miserably.

"Do do do do dab...have you heard...radio's future is DAB!"
 
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