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How many AM stations still actively use HD Radio (AM-HD)? Are there any in your area?

boiseengineer said:
btw 1160 KSL is still without HD.
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Huh. They'd be the ones to go down with the ship, them and (as I now know) Crawford.

Hybrid AM-HD is a shambling, shuffling corpse at this point and Digital-only AM-HD was kind of stillborn from what I see.

A concern I have is rural areas. Like Greater Minnesota, many communities have their own stations, usually on AM, as Class C or Class D - & that since rural newspapers died, these small, rural AM stations are sometimes the only source of local (incld. Emergency) Info - some of them have FM translators, but quite a few don't. If they can't do something, these community stations will die-out, HD or AM.
 
What benefit does KSL have for broadcasting in IBOC anyway? How many of their SLC listeners are actually listening to AM HD and NOT via 102.7?
 
A question out of sheer curiosity: can current HD Radios decode AM stereo? I had heard that some of the early HD Radios had that ability but is that still the case?
 
ZebraRadio said:
A question out of sheer curiosity: can current HD Radios decode AM stereo? I had heard that some of the early HD Radios had that ability but is that still the case?
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None of mine can (Honda and Mazda car radios, Sangean HDR-14 and HDR-18, Polk ISonic ES2), on WOKR 1310. I think it was just one of the earlier chipsets that could do it (with reversed left and right channels).
 
kfbkfb said:
KC had a Radio Disney station - 1190 AM + HD:
en.wikipedia.org

Radio Disney - Wikipedia

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I listened regularly w/my Sony HD table radio, partly for the music and partly for the tech (of HD) and I bought the MP3 of the song "sneakernight" after I heard it on Radio Disney.


Kirk Bayne
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1440 Radio Disney was a part of my and other millennials childhoods around here, it left and became "The Biz" with a business talk format - but I still have memories of it, 1440 is still listed as "HD" on the HD Radio Website, but it's def. not, they still list WCCO as well, but that hasn't been on since 2017 or 2018.

They came back on KMNB 102.9-3 for awhile, before leaving entirely. The Pandemic finally killed off its last station in CA.
 
Wolfie770 said:
1440 Radio Disney was a part of my and other millennials childhoods around here, it left and became "The Biz" with a business talk format - but I still have memories of it, 1440 is still listed as "HD" on the HD Radio Website, but it's def. not, they still list WCCO as well, but that hasn't been on since 2017 or 2018.

They came back on KMNB 102.9-3 for awhile, before leaving entirely. The Pandemic finally killed off its last station in CA.
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The HD Radio website does not produce accurate listings...it never really has (which is why I created my own database). Many stations that are listed on that site don't have HD, and there are stations that transmit in HD that aren't listed. Even if the stations listed on the site do transmit in HD, the subchannels may not be up to date or even listed.
 
ZebraRadio said:
A question out of sheer curiosity: can current HD Radios decode AM stereo? I had heard that some of the early HD Radios had that ability but is that still the case?
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I have the Sangean HDT-1x and this can decode AM Stereo, although it’s been quite a while since I’ve came across a station that supports AM Stereo. The 1x has been discontinued and replaced with a newer model, but I’m not sure if the newer model supports AM Stereo.
 
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