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Time For Wilmington to start investing in FM HD Radio

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I was so spoiled living out in Denver, Colorado past 6 months. Everything was in HD and had excellent sound quality.While other minor markets are investing in the technology, Wilmington is being too cheap to invest in it. Amazing how proud the mayor was when we were first in the country to go HDTV. We are last at everything else. Come on Wilmington, get with it.
 
More like smart owners who don't spend wastefully in a down economy on technology that no one in the mainstream knows exists.

If a tree falls in the forest...
 
You would have thought "Sunrise Broadcasting" would have done this before "Cumulus Media" or "Sea-Comm", at least the public radio station in Wilmington, WHQR, did go HD.
 
Well WHQR is a government funded public radio station. It is no surprise that station is HD. I would at least from the start, like to see WGNI on HD1 and WAAV am become WGNI's HD2 channel. I understand the high cost of starting up an HD station. It has to be very heavily advertised in this or any minor market to generate interest. I would think between Pat Kobala (the honda guy) and Peanut, somebody in this town would have the money to start up an HD broadcast.
 
HD Radio is a waste of time and more importantly, money. Microsoft's Zune was more popular (and that's not sayng much).
 
Unless and until automobile manufacturers start putting HD Radio in automobiles, the technology will go nowhere. Most people don't want a converter / external add on to thier factory radio.

Also programming needs to get more stable on the stations that offer it. In the Charlotte market there are way too many changes, either format changes or stations doing HD for a while, then turning it off, then back on and off just seemingly at a whim with no regard to the audience. The audience will never grow without some form of stability.
 
HD total waste of money these stations probably don't have to begin with, no one with radios out there to hear it even if they did.
 
The HD Alliance's linchpin, Clear Channel, no longer promoting HD radio. It's all about it's iHeartradio. And rightly so. HD was dead before it started. Future is streaming audio.
 
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