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What would you do with your HD2 and HD-3 channels?

C

Chuck

OK, technical issues aside, let's assume that you had a station that adopted HD or some similar digital format. What would you put on your secondary and tertiary channels? We don't even have to talk about what modulation scheme is used. It could be IBOC, it could be FMeXtra, or it could be something entirely different that none of us have ever heard of. The point is you now have two (or maybe more) channels that you can use. What would you do with them?

I realize that this answer will be different for almost everyone and depend a lot on what is going on in your market. Even so, I’d be curious to know what new, unusual or innovative formats might be compelling enough to make somebody want to buy a new radio.

Let’s keep the name calling and accusations down to a dull roar, and simply brainstorm about what might be good radio. :)
 
"Let’s keep the name calling and accusations down to a dull roar, and simply brainstorm about what might be good radio"

Satellite, or XM Radio.
 
Chuck said:
OK, technical issues aside, let's assume that you had a station that adopted HD or some similar digital format. What would you put on your secondary and tertiary channels? We don't even have to talk about what modulation scheme is used. It could be IBOC, it could be FMeXtra, or it could be something entirely different that none of us have ever heard of. The point is you now have two (or maybe more) channels that you can use. What would you do with them?

I realize that this answer will be different for almost everyone and depend a lot on what is going on in your market. Even so, I’d be curious to know what new, unusual or innovative formats might be compelling enough to make somebody want to buy a new radio.
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If the system is HD, the first HD channel will be the digital version of the analog programming. Most of us only will go to one additonal HD channel, as otherwise there is a significant reduction in bit rate that would affect quality as the systems works now.

The perfect formats for HD2 are formats that do not exist locally on analog. A good example would be country in NY and LA, or oldies in NY... all of which are bing done now.
 
The 2 HD 3 channels in NYC are talk for WNYC and a mono music format for WPLJ. They actually sound very good. I don't know what the bit rate is of the WNYC HD 3 channel but it's the same audio they run on AM. It actually is quite impressive.
 
OK, let me put it another way. If you could put anything you wanted on your new HD-2 & HD-3 channels, what would you love to do the most? All polka, all the time? ;D
 
I happen to like Polka music (which by the way isn't Polish according to our local Polish language radio station, which claims Polkas are from Slovakia). Whatever format I did would have lots of local appeal. For instance the station in NYC which does Jack format is heavily formated Rock (white boy suburban rock) and NY is NOT a rock town and their numbers prove me right or correct if you prefer. I'd like to do a R&B oldies format with music from the early 60's to late 70's which was played on black stations in our market but didn't get a lot of airplay on what would be termed mass appeal stations. There were tons of great records which were played on stations such as WWRL, WNJR and WLIB that didn't get play on WMCA or WABC. As Chuck obviously know's his market, every market is different and having an out of towner (Philadelphia, although a different market is similar to NY, so people from that market would be fine) program a station such as what I describe is a precription for failure.
 
autopaint-1 said:
I happen to like Polka music (which by the way isn't Polish according to our local Polish language radio station, which claims Polkas are from Slovakia). Whatever format I did would have lots of local appeal. For instance the station in NYC which does Jack format is heavily formated Rock (white boy suburban rock) and NY is NOT a rock town and their numbers prove me right or correct if you prefer. I'd like to do a R&B oldies format with music from the early 60's to late 70's which was played on black stations in our market but didn't get a lot of airplay on what would be termed mass appeal stations. There were tons of great records which were played on stations such as WWRL, WNJR and WLIB that didn't get play on WMCA or WABC. As Chuck obviously know's his market, every market is different and having an out of towner (Philadelphia, although a different market is similar to NY, so people from that market would be fine) program a station such as what I describe is a precription for failure.
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Good. No HD Radio required, you can listen to better then HD Radio quality polka AAC Plus streams and stations here:
www.tuner2.com
and here:
http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?s=aac%2B
Bet you can't pick up digital Polka on your HD Radio. Perhaps you need a bigger antenna. ;D
 
SUPERCASTER said:
autopaint-1 said:
I happen to like Polka music (which by the way isn't Polish according to our local Polish language radio station, which claims Polkas are from Slovakia). Whatever format I did would have lots of local appeal. For instance the station in NYC which does Jack format is heavily formated Rock (white boy suburban rock) and NY is NOT a rock town and their numbers prove me right or correct if you prefer. I'd like to do a R&B oldies format with music from the early 60's to late 70's which was played on black stations in our market but didn't get a lot of airplay on what would be termed mass appeal stations. There were tons of great records which were played on stations such as WWRL, WNJR and WLIB that didn't get play on WMCA or WABC. As Chuck obviously know's his market, every market is different and having an out of towner (Philadelphia, although a different market is similar to NY, so people from that market would be fine) program a station such as what I describe is a precription for failure.
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Good. No HD Radio required, you can listen to better then HD Radio quality polka AAC Plus streams and stations here:
www.tuner2.com
and here:
http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?s=aac%2B
Bet you can't pick up digital Polka on your HD Radio. Perhaps you need a bigger antenna. ;D
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Bet you have a hard time listening to tuner2 in the car. BTW, the streams really aren't better...another "twisted truth". Plus it's been proven that people don't care about the bitrate, they care about the content.
 
I'LL TYPE THIS IN CAPS BECAUSE APPARENTLY YOU DON'T READ RESPONSES OR CAN"T READ NORMAL TYPE. THE INTERNET STREAMERS CAN NOT BE LISTENED TO FOR FREE IN MY CAR. IT'S LIKE THE TREE FALLING IN THE FORREST. IF YOU CAN'T HEAR THEM THEY DON'T EXIST. ALSO< INTERNET CONNECTIVITY ISN'T FREE AND NOT AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE.
 
autopaint-1 said:
I happen to like Polka music (which by the way isn't Polish according to our local Polish language radio station, which claims Polkas are from Slovakia). Whatever format I did would have lots of local appeal.
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In some parts of Texas, Polka would be popular, although I don't think I'd like to listen to it 24/7. Most of Central Texas has a Germanic background that has mixed with many different cultures. A lot of “Texas Music” is based on that mix. I was in a beer hall near Boerne (TX) recently, and the band played a rock-country variant of polka. It was a lot of fun. The good German beer probably helped that perception. :p

There are areas in Louisiana were a couple of stations thrive on Zydeco music. They even use Cajun French mixed with a bit of English as the predominant on air language. It works for them.

I'm just curious to see what odd formats people might think up. R&B, Blues and mainstream Jazz all come to mind as working in many locations. I just got finished filing out some Arbitron Radio Market registration materials. The number of formats they show is somewhat mind boggling. I'm not even sure what some of them are. But there is always room for someone to come up with something new and inventive. That is what will sell people on HD radio, not technical “improvements.”

This is a chance to post something creative, maybe even funny, on a Message Board that otherwise is not worth the time of day. I guess that is asking too much.
 
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