Which TV Station will have 50Channels of Audio?

[chime]

For many months I am awaiting an audio service of
Ludgwick Enterprises. For me, especially as they will
have some news and techno. Anyway, they will be leasing
space on HDTV stations. Wonder if they have any firm
agreements in LA? But considering the upcoming
spectrim grab, won't it be much more chalenging for
them to find room? I am guessing it would be a station
with no sub-channels, such as 2, 9, 11, 22,
34,.
Thanks in advance from Sherman Oaks

 

[ShawnHill1]

I was thinking about this just today...there's a low-power digital station in Atlanta which carries the audio from several local radio stations (I think they're Clear Channel stations). You mentioned Channels 2/9 and 34 (and 46), and of course they have co-owned radio stations in the market, but I highly doubt that CBS and Univision would simulcast the signals of their radio stations on to their TV subchannels. As far as Fox, I've read here and elsewhere that they're going to utilize some of the bandwidth from their owned-and-operated stations for mobile TV.

 

[chime]

Actually, may I should explain this differently. This
company with a stock symbol of "ludg" will have a
service similar to XM Satellite Radio, but they will
give away radios at Target, with I think a 1time
subscription. I would suppose these 50 audio channels
will only be listenable on these specific receivers.

I figured that because eventually broadcasters may need
to give up channel space, it could be more chalenging
for this service to become established.
So, no its not any local broadcaster--and not something
which would be even on a SAP

 

[azumanga]

I was thinking about this just today...there's a low-power digital station in Atlanta which carries the audio from several local radio stations (I think they're Clear Channel stations).

The station in question is WANN-LD, which offers Clear Channel's Atlanta-area stations, plus many regular TV networks.

Other stations that carry more than one audio subchannel include KAXT-CA in San Francisco (three audio channels, with plans to expand to eight) and KYES-TV in Anchorage (two channels , plus testing on a third).

 

[ercjncpr]

From their website, it appears that they are aiming somwhat at the foreign language market. I think that this was first announced in 2010. It would be like XM but in several European and Asian languages as well as English and transmitted via dtv subchannels, encrypted for reception only on their unique device. From their website:

http://ludwigent.com/

40 Ethnic Language Groups Channels per Market

8 English Language Channels per Market

(Target age 50-90 years of age)

Ludwig Enterprises, Inc. has developed a patented new radio that receives signals from the new Digital Television format (ATSC also known as HD-TV). The One™ radio offers 50 channels of diverse, HD quality, digital programming…Filipino, Pakistani, Hebrew, Chinese, Greek, Russian and many more, in addition to great English programming, old time radio shows, news 24 hours a day, audio books, educational and religious programming, as well as music ranging from Techno to Classical.

I also wonder that, even though it will use less bandwidth, whether it will suffer the same fate as Sezmi (which was essentially a knockoff of TiVO). How many tv stations will lease a couple of channels to these guys?

"TheONE", as this company is calling it, sounds like a clone of existing internet radio devices and ipod/smartphone apps.