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WBGO HD2 is coming

BruceS8852

BruceS8852

I work in Newark within a half mile of the old transmitter. I had my Insignia portable today and was going through the dial and found an 88.3 HD2 with no sound. I e-mailed the station and an engineer verified that WBGO HD2 is coming, but didn't say what format. I will just have to stay tuned.

Bruce
 
BruceS8852 said:
Smooth Jazz is on 101.9 HD2 so there is no sense to have it on 2 places.

Bruce
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Yes but no stream. I guess WBGO starts also with streaming the new HD2 channel, also an important thing these days.
 
Jazz enthusiasts and Smooth Jazz listeners are offended by each other's genres.
Jazz is to Smooth Jazz as Album Rock is to Pop.
If their HD2 channel is to compliment their main channel, it could only be Blues or Latin Jazz.
WDNA, in Latin heavy Miami, mixes Traditional Jazz with Latin Jazz.
Of course, they could also run something totally off the wall.
We are delighted that SiriusXM 2.0 is bringing Luna back to the satellites.
 
WBGO-HD2 is on the air playing pretty much the same jazz as HD1. The HD2 channel is very useful since the parent station is fund raising. I invite the few people who own HD radios to sample 88.3 HD2.

On another note, it seems odd that WFUV and WBGO are having fund raising drives at the same time. I donate to WFUV in the Fall and WBGO in the winter, but will one station's fund raising hurt the other's when they are done simultaneously.

Bruce
 
actually, it often works to have multiple public radio stations whose signals overlap fundraising at the same time. As you yourself admitted, you tune to the HD stream to get away from the pitching. If you can't avoid it by switching to a non-fundraising feed (especially true for stations airing the NPR news magazines), then some folks might be more prompted to take it seriously and contribute to one of them. Seems to work from when I worked at stations that happened one year to all fundraise at the same time, but I can't guarantee everyone will improve in every market if their fundraising overlaps. But it's worth a try.
Only thing I can't understand is why anyone would fundraise in January, which has traditionally been the low economy month as people catch up after paying Christmas shopping bills, etc.
 
Does WBGO HD2 stream?
Reception of the regular WBGO signal north of NYC remains poor, even with the new transmitter location.
 
One difference between radio and TV fundraising is that the radio stations program the same during pledge drives as they do during other times. You see certain programming on PBS stations only during pledge drives.

Bruce
 
I received this comment from Cephas Bowles the General Manager of WBGO:

"Please listen to the HD2 stream. The music showcases emerging talent and is one of the few places in the world to hear jazz played by young, and older, artists. This is the music coming out of the garages and college Schools of Music. Enjoy. "

Bruce
 
BruceS8852 said:
"Please listen to the HD2 stream..."
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Apears to have been sent out prematurely.
We have been unable to locate it.
 
I was able to pick up WBGO HD2 from downtown Newark. As of today there was no stream for it on WBGo_Org. Since there are so few HD radios out there the only way this station will get any recognition is through an internet stream.

Bruce
 
@R.F. Burns - The city of license for WBGO is still in Newark, but the transmitter is in Times Square. It moved there very recently.

Bruce
 
More than a month later and still nothing of it is mentioned on their web site, although they do list something called Discover Music.
I believe WFUV, which was mentioned a few posts back, usually simulcasts their analog/HD-1 with their HD-2, called WFUV Music. Living nowhere near the apple, I can only ask, what is doing with WBGO-2?
 
Thanks pjc, the player shows a message, mentioning that this is a "Sneak Preview Until March 16".
Guess I will have to check back on the seventeenth.
I have never before seen a URL beginning with rtmp.
 
"RTMP" is intended exclusively for use in RealPlayer... Remember RealPlayer? It's still around, believe it or not, along with its "RealAudio" format...
 
March 19'th has arrived and plenty of active links are there, but nothing to their HD-2 channel.
The Jazz Stream link takes us to their main channel audio feed.
Looks like folkes away from NY need to purchase the Wowza Player.
 
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