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HD Radio and buses

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HHalland

This is pretty funny. A guy I was talking to yesterday at the car wash had a radio station news car. We were talking about radio and he said that HD was stupid.

He said that it is all about how the stations are programmed.

He said that it's like what would you do?

..take a REALLY nice tricked out bus to Sunken Gardens..or a crummy rattley bus to Walt Disney World? It's not the way you get there, but what's at the end of the ride.

HAAH I thought that was just like HD radio which is a sham and a fake.

Howard Halland
Thank you
 
I think most stations in the market so far have done a good job @ putting on some pretty decent channels. Mix's side channel is REAAAAAAL broad. US103/5's channel is a real wide variety of over 900 country classics to some 90's recurrents. Car listening is where I find the biggest difference. A much cleaner signal with NO MULTIPATH is nice. It's clean and there period. We've actually gotten 30 positives on the US HD hcannel in the past week. That's not bad considering most people think there are no radios out there. As far away as Orlando to the east. The rest are scattered around the region. It took HD TV FOREVER to get rolling and this will as well facing a lot of the same problems. Price being a big factor in the begining. The product part is coming rapidly. It's way too early to start judging the outcome just as it was and still is for Sat. radio. The market continues to flood with new gadjets and the services who find great ways to be a part of it will be the ones to survive.
As automobiles start coming equipt with it late this year it will start to grow. Once you get the side channels and realize there is something more out there for free you want more.

r
 
Well Mr. Rigger you may be right, but they will hook us like a flounder, and reel us in then they will turn it all off unless we pay and pay. You'll see I am not a liar.
 
.... or the advertising will start. It may be free, but there will be spots. Actually, I'm curious if there's ad's running on those channels yet anyway. Maybe someone can let us know. I don't have a receiver yet or else I'd have more of an opinion.
 
There are no spots on any multicast channels. You must have Experimental Authority from the FCC to multicast and you are not allowed to make any money from an Experimental Authority.
 
rfrus said:
There are no spots on any multicast channels. You must have Experimental Authority from the FCC to multicast and you are not allowed to make any money from an Experimental Authority.
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Well, that answers my question as to why CC crams all sorts of commercials up our ear canals (right, Morgan & Morgan?)...
 
Once again they are confusing form with content, turning yet another radio broadcast resource into a virtual jukebox with no perceivable localism. And the deconstruction of all that was good and unique about Radio continues...
 
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