HD Radio in Seattle

[newzguy]

Hi-ho all! ( in my best Kermit The Frog voice )

*cough - cough*

HD Radio will be the new reality -- It's much more exciting than satellite, because it means several more stations can be broadcast per current LOCAL radio signal using new technology. Admittedly, new receivers will have to be used, but which came first.. the HD TV sets or the HD broadcasts?(chicken and egg arguers find your own forum)

New radios and even some satellite capable systems will inevitably include HD radio, but compelling programming will help sell HD capable hardware. The question is how to use the new bandwidth. As I understand it with layman's knowledge, there's room for three-to-five times as many stations as we have now using HD. How will programmers use these new tools? Are we destined for each and every corporate chain with their own Jack, Jill, Tom, Dick or Sheri format as their HD channels?

It makes me a bit "verklempt"! Discuss the possibilities among yourselves for a bit....

Travis Bailey

 

[evillemon]

The question is how to use
> the new bandwidth. As I understand it with layman's
> knowledge, there's room for three-to-five times as many
> stations as we have now using HD.


So, that'll be 3-5 times as many stations censored? It's a great idea, but satellite will be able to offer better programming due to the lack of constraints.

Now, that's not to say they WILL offer better programming...but they could.

 

[En_Fuego]

> The question is how to use
> > the new bandwidth. As I understand it with layman's
> > knowledge, there's room for three-to-five times as many
> > stations as we have now using HD.
>
>
> So, that'll be 3-5 times as many stations censored? It's a
> great idea, but satellite will be able to offer better
> programming due to the lack of constraints.
>
> Now, that's not to say they WILL offer better
> programming...but they could.
>

Just being able to drop the f-bomb whenever you want to doesn't automatically mean you will have better programming, or that censored terrestrial radio will be inferior. HD is a great concept, and one of the things I hope that some stations might adopt is a completely pure audience driven band on the HD signal.

How? Have listeners be able to log in to whatever stations website with their super special e-mail log-in (You know the ones where you get all the super info from the station?! Triple 9, etc etc), and have a section with a full playlist. Let em pick the songs! What would be better?

You could also do so much more on the specialty-side. Do full CD listenings, hour shows of bands including biographies and interviews. Some complain that the bands nowdays don't connect with the fans as much (at least the bands that are pushed on the radio), and this would be a perfect way.

I for one am excited.

 

[dialtwisty]

Will HD Radio be a LUXURY?

Is HD Radio going to be like FM in the 50's?...Something the well to do have in the den?..

It must find a way into factory cars if it is to work....

So far XM and Sirius with their better value to the dealer play have all the cards there...

MP3/internet in the dash will be more interesting to dealers and auto makers than HD....

 

[jason97]

HD Radio is definitely vaporware at this point

The only time I've seen a radio that can recieve HD signals is a picture in a newspaper. So far, this has been a non-event to just about everyone outside the radio industry.<P ID="signature">______________
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