Will Clear Channel ever put an HD transmitter on 101.7 WHBA? I'm thinking they won't go HD, especially considering they turned off the HD on 101.5 in Providence (or the HD transmitter just failed and they didn't fix it. Clear Channel stands to gain from people listening to 101.5 near Boston, and 101.5 in HD would further reduce 101.7's weak signal in the suburbs. Turning on the HD would force more listeners to other non-Clear Channel stations than the number of HD radios in the area.
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Will 101.7 The Harbor ever go HD?
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I don't think that HD on WHBA 101.7 would cover a lot of ground very well on an HD radio. I'm sure it would do well in downtown Boston, but the HD would probably become spotty just outside the city and in the suburbs, and in areas where it's blocked by buildings and terrain.
Eh, the licensing fees on iBiquity hardware mitigate against that mentality; they make the bulk of the cost. If anything it's the opposite; you have a new transmitter, it's probably not too hard to add an HD Exporter to it. Presumably an Importer for multicasting as well.
I don't know what overall strategies Clear Channel has but on the surface there would seem to be little justification for adding HD to 101.7. The ERP is too low to have solid building penetration and they're almost certainly limited to -14dBc injection at most; the dial's too crowded to do -10dBc.
I agree that, again on the surface, there's a good reason NOT to run HD on either 101.7 or 101.5; reducing interference to both. I can even think of a good analogy: WEOS and WRVO. Both co-existed reasonably comfortably on 89.7 and 89.9, respectively, but when both turned on HD carriers several years back, they each made hash of each other. And right over the I-90 Thruway, too. Total bummer.
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