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HD/IBOC

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TheLaffer

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HD better hurry up and catch on because i think the audience is slowly going away from KRLD/KLIF with their lousy "Hiss" generated by IBOC on the analog side.. Let's hope WBAP doesn't fire it up on their 50KW. THAT would be terrible!!!!

I just can't believe broadcasters of these big stations are allowing this kind of poor quality just so a hand full of listeners can listen in HD. NOT SMART. :-[
 
TheLaffer said:
HD better hurry up and catch on because i think the audience is slowly going away from KRLD/KLIF with their lousy "Hiss" generated by IBOC on the analog side.. Let's hope WBAP doesn't fire it up on their 50KW. THAT would be terrible!!!!

I just can't believe broadcasters of these big stations are allowing this kind of poor quality just so a hand full of listeners can listen in HD. NOT SMART. :-[
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You just summed up the entire HD push. Not smart. Waste of money, waste of time, waste of bandwidth.
HD isn't catching up because the radios aren't being put in cars. Even if they were the quality of corporate radio's gotten so piss-poor that terrestrial radio no longer has the ability to differentiate itself from satellite.

"We're local" (and craptastic).

Even if HD does catch on, do you honestly think bean counters are going to spend the money necessary to construct new studios, hire new air, promotion, engineering, and sales staffs? Monkeys will fly forth from my rectum before that happens.
 
I've noticed the hiss, too. Even on narrow band radios. I consciously decide to tune to WBAP because the audio is cleaner. It is next to impossible to tune a radio with analog tuning - especially a cheap one - exactly on frequency. And when I do - there is a funny warbling caused (I guess) by differences between the two digital sidebands.
 
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