New Legal ID for WGST

[RadioFreeAtlanta]

This morning I was listening to WGST and heard this at the top of the hour:

WUBL HD Atlanta

Did they just start this? Brand new to me.

 

[w9wi]

This morning I was listening to WGST and heard this at the top of the hour:

WUBL HD Atlanta

Did they just start this? Brand new to me.

Sounds like they're simulcasting on a subchannel of 94.9's digital signal.

 

[jabba17]

This morning I was listening to WGST and heard this at the top of the hour:

WUBL HD Atlanta

Did they just start this? Brand new to me.

Sounds like they're simulcasting on a subchannel of 94.9's digital signal.

They are. The entire legal id is something like "WGST Atlanta, WUBL HD-3 Atlanta"

WDUN is doing the same thing: "WDUN Gainesville, WMJE HD-2 Clarkesville" (simul on Majic 102.9)

And so is WSB: "WSB Atlanta, WSRV HD-2 Gainesville" (simul on River)

 

[DToTheJ]

This morning I was listening to WGST...

So you're the one?

 

[jaxradidio]

That's been GST's ID for quite a while. Guess ya have to listen to notice

 

[Bengalsfan]

I didn't think the FCC had set rules for ID'ing on an HD channel.

 

[JoshuaC]

I didn't think the FCC had set rules for ID'ing on an HD channel.

I believe that at this time the visual ID on the HD Radio screen (WXYZ-HD2 or 3) will suffice. This is what I've heard from some engineers (although I've probably heard that you need to aurally identify from just as many others).

The only thing in the FCC rules about it is that a Station operating in Hybrid Digital mode must "identify its digital signal, including any free multicast audio programming streams, in a manner that appropriately alerts its audience to the fact that it is listening to a digital audio broadcast." (FCC Rules Sec 73.1201 http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2008/octqtr/47cfr73.1201.htm).

However... It seems a lot of people are hedging their bets and giving an aural identification, which probably can't hurt anyhow.

 

[jabba17]

However... It seems a lot of people are hedging their bets and giving an aural identification, which probably can't hurt anyhow.

It may...MAY...encourage people who want to listen to WGST after dark to go pop for an HD radio.

CC has been pushing this more so than WSB, for obvious reasons.

 

[Bengalsfan]

I just love the way the FCC makes up the vague, stupid rules. Why are they so hesitant to stipulate a way to identify an HD channel? This goes for television, too.

 

[jabba17]

I just love the way the FCC makes up the vague, stupid rules. Why are they so hesitant to stipulate a way to identify an HD channel? This goes for television, too.

Why are they so hesitant to allow WCNN to have a city of license that actually exists?

 

[Radio1360]

It may...MAY...encourage people who want to listen to WGST after dark to go pop for an HD radio.

[/quote] I have yet to buy me an HD Radio myself.

 

[JoshuaC]

Alas, it will probably take more than simulcasting AM Stations to drive up the market for HD Radios. At least it's a start.

 

[onetake]

The FCC is ridiculous. For a decade they were nothing more than a clearing house for license transfers. When they deal with technology nothing goes right. The whole DTV conversion in tv is just the latest act of poor planned stupidity. HD? Nobody knows, nobody cares. And AM radio? So many properties worth so little now because these guys never gave AM attention. Seems every city has at least one non commercial college station that got the best signal in the city because the FCC spends more time on the wrong things.