KING's four web streams

[Ai4i]

Just learned about them:
The KING-FM Main Channel.
The Arts Channel is a discussion and interview channel about the arts and is on HD2.
The Evergreen Channel is a "refuge" channel featuring largely classical guitar as well as ambient and new age.
The Seattle Opera Channel is KING's answer to Sirius XM's Metropolitan Opera Channel.
They do take this seriously!

 

[Bongwater]

Just learned about them:
The KING-FM Main Channel.
The Arts Channel is a discussion and interview channel about the arts and is on HD2.
The Evergreen Channel is a "refuge" channel featuring largely classical guitar as well as ambient and new age.
The Seattle Opera Channel is KING's answer to Sirius XM's Metropolitan Opera Channel.
They do take this seriously!

KING-FM, like KEXP and other stations add extra content online to offer alternatives to it's main signal/online feed. I don't know what ambient has in common with classical. But some new age does, R. Carlos Nakai for example, records traditional Native American music.

Traditional Celtic, Asian and other indigenous genres of music can be considered non-European classical music. So it all fits there.......

 

[TowerLamp]

And just to stir things up let me add that KING also offers those channels (Evergreen and Arts as well as main channel) on HD-1-2-3-FM.

I know, I know HD is D-O-A!

 

[Ai4i]

I know, I know HD is D-O-A!

An original proponent of the Eureka-147 system, I now hope the HD's neigh seighers will be proven wrongly.
I know I got the HD channel order wrong.
HD1=Main
HD2=Evergreen
HD3=Arts
After the transition period ends, KING will have a lot more digital bandwidth and can offer the Seattle Opera channel on HD4 plus perhaps other channels on HD5 and HD6.

 

[Bongwater]

I know, I know HD is D-O-A!

An original proponent of the Eureka-147 system, I now hope the HD's neigh seighers will be proven wrongly.
I know I got the HD channel order wrong.
HD1=Main
HD2=Evergreen
HD3=Arts
After the transition period ends, KING will have a lot more digital bandwidth and can offer the Seattle Opera channel on HD4 plus perhaps other channels on HD5 and HD6.

I'm afraid the nay-sayers are here to stay for a while.

Radio conglomerates can't even afford to operate ONE station on one channel. Six on one channel isn't EVEN in the equation.

And in a current maximum cluster of five FMs, that's 25 extra stations. almost NOBODY will be listening to.

Technology today is evolving faster than the brains running radio today can keep up with.

And WHAT transition period?? Do you really think ANY mandatory HD switch for radio is going to be any easier or popular than that for TV? I have a news flash for everybody: Radio is on the edge of total collapse and people will STOP listening to radio altogether if a mandatory transition period gets fopped on an unwilling public with the way the typical programming on ONE single ANALOG radio channel is being handled NOW.

TV has captive audiences, radio does not. The risk just wouldn't be worth it. Not even for public stations, who are light years ahead of the commercial stations when it comes to HD radio content. And I haven't EVEN gotten started on the economy itself.

And right now, there is a bill up for confirmation next week that will DELAY the DTV transition for TV. So I wouldn't hold my breath for all HD FM. I don't see that happening for MANY years and MANY CHANGES in the radio station ownership rules yet....

 

[Ai4i]

And WHAT transition period??

Nothing mandatory.
It will just happen (if and) when enough people have the radios.

And right now, there is a bill up for confirmation next week that will DELAY the DTV transition for TV.

I would propose a bill to not confirm that bill.
This technocrat always wants technology to be pushed forward.
The public will be pulled along with it.

 

[Bongwater]

And WHAT transition period??

Nothing mandatory.
It will just happen (if and) when enough people have the radios.

And right now, there is a bill up for confirmation next week that will DELAY the DTV transition for TV.

I would propose a bill to not confirm that bill.
This technocrat always wants technology to be pushed forward.
The public will be pulled along with it.

No problem with technology. Just the actual ability to make it all work halfway smoothly.

HD Radio still has to overcome terrain and propagation issues. And don't even get me started on IBOC itself. Especially on AM.

I believe digital radios made in the US should have both HD AND Digital Radio Mondiale capability, http://www.drm.org/ as an alternative for those stations that cannot use HD (smaller public/LPFMs, etc.) One corporation should NEVER have a government sanctioned monopoly of licensing of a certain system. Hopefully the new FCC chairman will see the light on this. Secondly, there aren't many HD radios out there. That's also a limiting factor.

DTV was signed in 2005. The actual en masse public push didn't begin until last year. A very POOR way to execute a mass technological revolution.

But it's likely that bill WILL be confirmed. And for now, for the better. Canada isn't switching until 2011 and if we synch our transition date with theirs, it just makes a little more sense, both economically for the consumer in the form of even LOWER DTV prices and for the government DTV coupon program.....