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How many HD radio subchannels are there for WHRB Cambridge Harvard radio 95.3 ?
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mgpt6 said:
I'm pretty sure the reading service is still on a WERS analog subcarrier. It's certainly technically possible - we run a 92 kHz reading service and HD on my FM station here in Rochester - but with one caveat: stations using the "extended partition" HD mode have reported interference to their 92 kHz analog SCA. (The extended partition, or "MP4," mode adds additional digital carriers closer to +/- 100 kHz in order to eke out another 24 kbps of bandwidth for a total of 112 kbps. There's a good description of it here, complete with graphs: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf09856.html)
It's been a while since I've perused the SCA bands. But, I believe one of the WHRB SCA's was in the Italian language. The other, I cannot recall. There are some stations in the Boston market who are running both SCA's and HD. For instance, WXKS-FM/107.9, WMJX/106.7, WKLB/102.5 and so on utilize standard FM, FM Stereo, SCA and HD. That's a rather busy setup, for sure Since some HD transmitter set-ups are using two separate transmitters (analog and HD) to one feed-line, otherwise they generally have no real interaction with each other. The average HD plant uses the the 2 adjacent channels (upper and lower) to send the HD signal, while the analog side uses the center channel (licensed carrier frequency) for standard FM (mono), FM Stereo and SCA.
As Scott just mentioned, WERS is still feeding the Talking Information Center on their 92 kHz, in addition to their HD carrier.
As Scott just mentioned, WERS is still feeding the Talking Information Center on their 92 kHz, in addition to their HD carrier.
thezak said:
SCA is an older form of analog FM subchannels. It requires a special SCA receiver, they are generally not in retail stores, but they can be purchased as specialty items from certain manufacturers.
Kind of like how WATD, WUML and other stations offer services for the blind, right? Or
like what I saw years back in Akron Ohio--there was a bingo hall which financed a reading
for the blind service and it broadcast on what I think was the SCA of the U. of Akron
station, WZIP (I don't think it's done any more...the brother of a friend of mine from
Akron had worked for the service...again, done on an SCA I believe)
To hear it you got a special receiver.
like what I saw years back in Akron Ohio--there was a bingo hall which financed a reading
for the blind service and it broadcast on what I think was the SCA of the U. of Akron
station, WZIP (I don't think it's done any more...the brother of a friend of mine from
Akron had worked for the service...again, done on an SCA I believe)
To hear it you got a special receiver.
WHRB with subchannels is scary. Around exam time, it would multiple orgies-within-an-orgy.
What a concept.
What a concept.
thezak said:
Orgies at WHRB during exams have been going on for years. It's very classy and eagerly anticipated by exam-besieged students as a welcome break from the academic stress. For a lot of people it's the high point of their participation. One of the traditions that makes Harvard what it is.
thezak said:
The subcarriers have always been programmed by paying clients.They have never been programmed by students, and there are no Orgy broadcasts on the subcarriers.
There are two reasons why WHRB members may have less time to devote to Orgy period in the future. First, Lawrence Summers, after helping to sow the seeds of the present economic crisis under Bill Clinton, turned his attention to Harvard. Among his ideas was a new academic calendar (enacted by his successor Drew Faust) that reduces reading and exam periods by about 30%, pushes the January exams forward to December, and effectively closes Harvard College for most of January, during which most students are sent home.
Another recent change is that most Harvard College courses no longer have final exams, and exam period therefore does not loom as large for the current crop of Harvard students as it did in my day. I can't say how badly these developments will affect future Orgy broadcasts, but I suspect they will have some impact.
"Orgy" is a registered trade mark of the Harvard Radio Broadcasting Company, Incorporated.
4CX1000A said:
Truly amazing! half a dozen people (more or less) have posted in this "sub-thread" on WHRB's Orgy programming and, so far at least, no post that I have seen has bothered to satisfy the original poster's question. That is, nobody has explained what WHRB means by "Orgy." My understanding is that WHRB Orgies are long stretches--hours to days--of basically uninterrupted album cuts that either are performed by a single artist or are the work of a single composer or are connected by some other common theme. AFAIK, WHRB's use of the name Orgy to describe this programming is not intended to imply that the program content has much (or anything) to do with sex.
Long stretches, salutes to artists etc (be they Muddy Waters, Beethoven, or genres etc.) I remember the short-lived (Radio) Waves magazine, late 70s, listed the orgies and no doubt
the WHRB program guides and websites do as well.
The online WHRB program guide covers April only but says the Spring Orgies begin May 1
What is a WHRB Orgy?
http://whrb.org/orgies.html
>>it is said that one Harvard student, then a staff member of WHRB, returned to the station after a particularly difficult exam and played all of Beethoven's nine symphonies consecutively to celebrate the end of a long, hard term of studying. The idea caught on, and soon the orgy concept was expanded to include live jazz, rock, hip-hop, blues, and even sports Orgies.
The Orgy® tradition lives on even today at WHRB. During the Reading and Exam Periods of Harvard College, WHRB presents marathon-style musical programs devoted to a single composer, performer, genre, or subject.
the WHRB program guides and websites do as well.
The online WHRB program guide covers April only but says the Spring Orgies begin May 1
What is a WHRB Orgy?
http://whrb.org/orgies.html
>>it is said that one Harvard student, then a staff member of WHRB, returned to the station after a particularly difficult exam and played all of Beethoven's nine symphonies consecutively to celebrate the end of a long, hard term of studying. The idea caught on, and soon the orgy concept was expanded to include live jazz, rock, hip-hop, blues, and even sports Orgies.
The Orgy® tradition lives on even today at WHRB. During the Reading and Exam Periods of Harvard College, WHRB presents marathon-style musical programs devoted to a single composer, performer, genre, or subject.
DanStrassberg said:
That's more or less accurate, although they are not necessarily album cuts nor are they uninterrupted. There have been live performances, and recordings of live performances, in Orgy programs; once upon a time there were even Orgy programs that were all live performances. And the presentation is often very academic, including interviews, commentary, and analysis.
Some Orgy programs, such as those of the news and sports departments, don't have much music in them at all.
The spring Orgy period beginning this Tuesday will include an Orgy commemorating Harvard College's 375th anniversary. I don't know what it will contain.
DanStrassberg said:
"Orgy" is used merely in the sense of "overindulgence".
4CX1000A said:
Fixed it for you.
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