Sounds like Rosanne Rosanadanna to me...
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Nope, Tomás. She was "it's always something".
Emily Litella would do an editorial reply in which she had misunderstood the subject and when corrected would say "Oh, that's different then ... never mind."
So Mike is correct.
You're right: RR said "thought i was gonna die!"
Would you kindly remind me what programming did HD2 previously have? I never cared for HD radio despite my radio being tuned to KIIS most of the time (except for Sundays where I prefer listening to Air1)
I wonder if iHeart Radio will put a simulcast of KEIB 1150 on 102.7 HD2, because 1) the AM’s signal is weak and directional (even more so at night), if its coverage map on Radio-Locator is to be believed; and 2) iHeart simulcasts its other AMs on co-owned FMs’ HD2 subchannels (KLAC 570 on KYSR 98.7 HD2, KFI 640 on KOST 103.5 HD2). If they did this, I’d listen to UCLA Bruins football and men’s basketball games that get bumped from 570/98.7 HD2 on there static-free.
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Are stations required to ID their HD-1 Channel along with the analog station?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
In a word, yes.
There is a requirement that the simulcast of the main signal be identified as a digital broadcast.
There is a requirement that the simulcast of the main signal be identified as a digital broadcast.
Typo above, rewritten below:
A station airs the main signal on HD1 an an older format could be played on the HD2 feed.
If a station says on the air "KISS FM and HD1 Los Angeles", it means that station has digital signals alongside the traditional terrestrial ones.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I didn't make a typo and I don't know where that extra verbiage came from. (You can confirm that by looking at the post, which does not have an editing timestamp on it.)
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Now, let me try to explain what the legalities are for station identification as the FCC requires it, using KIIS as an example.
- Analog broadcast only (pre-HD): "KIIS-FM Los Angeles" (noting that when the calls changed to accommodate the simulcast with 1150 back in 1975, the "-FM" suffix was appended and was never removed from the official calls)
- Analog with main channel digital simulcast (which, as far as I am aware, is required to be the first HD channel): "KIIS-FM & HD Los Angeles"
- Digital stream on the second HD channel: "KIIS-FM-HD2 Los Angeles" ... etc., etc., etc.
These are the customary ways most stations handle it. But the current version of 73.1201 is so vague that it allows for a lot of other interpretations, too.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Slightly OT, but I have always found it interesting that on the television side, station identifications do not have to include the subchannel, and sometimes the subchannel is on a different station's signal than the primary channel of the PSIP. For example, here in Los Angeles KTTV 11.3 is actually on physical channel 13.8 and so the legal IDs say "KCOP-TV Los Angeles".
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