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WFUV 90.7 Apparently No Longer In HD

and because i always like to add slightly interesting but kinda useless info, on the reverse of what scott described for station cutaways/local content during morning edition.. KSKO just takes the straight up feed of the show with zero cut aways. Same for any live NPR programming, which is just 30 mins of ATC weeknights, week morning weekend edition and saturday afternoon weekend edition.

We do cutaways for recorded programming.

When I worked at KIYU, did did cutaways in ME at 603, 703 and 803 for local news, 719am for our local community calendar "yukon wireless", 748 for a quick 2 minute update and then during ATC, I think it was 348 for another 2 minute update. all other times, we took whatever KUAC did for local cutaways, since our NPR schedule came from simulcasting their NPR programming.

(Some far flung smaller NPR stations in alaska get their programming via a feed on the State SIP.. satellite interconnect project.. from another station... KUHB, way out in the aluetians gets its NPR from KMXT in Kodiak and KCUK in Chevak gets NPR from KYUK in Bethel....... KIYU, KSKO, KUHB and KCUK have no news departments.. KCUK has 2, 2 1/2 staff a.... KUHB has 1 1/2 staff......... KUHB and KCUK's staffers have on air and off air responsibilities.. KSKO and KIYU have 1 1/2 staff each... and only one at eachy station has any off air responsibilities)

Squirrel, shiny object, sorry.
 
The HD signal is down, once again.
It seems that in recent years, most stations' HD signals have become much more reliable.
 
I wonder if they are just turning it on when regular programming is pre-empted by sports on the main channel so they can use the HD2 for music during that time.
 
They apparently didn't turn on the HD tonight. Right now, 90.7 is airing Good Friday Mass while music is airing on the FUV Music stream. Who knows, perhaps WFUV has dropped HD permanently.
 
Depending on how the studio is set up (assuming they have people running the board occasionally) most likely the studio monitor is fed from the board. The digital lag of HD requires a "delay" for the analog audio or you get really bad gaps or skips on a car HD radio if it temporarily loses the HD signal going around a hill or some kind of man made structure. Unless alerted by whatever system that runs transmitter, or there is a really easily seen modulation meter, the folks in the studio really have no idea if they are on the air or if the HD is working.

I am really surprised that is some really smart person(s) hasn't figured out how to do away with the HD digital delay. They have some really fast processing chips now. The old ISDN didn't have a noticable delay. Plain old telephone conversations are digitally compressed and have less than 4 k bandwidth. There are several companies that make STL boxes that can run on crappy phone company copper are pretty amazing.
 
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