For the first time, WPLR New Haven is using HD for something other than its main signal. It's now carrying the same "Big D" oldies stream that WDRC-FM Hartford has been running on its HD2 since its Buckley days. Not huge news, but I guess there's a chance Connoisseur may have more plans for HD after years of virtually ignoring it, as Cox did before Connoisseur acquired WPLR.
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WPLR gets an HD2
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That would make sense, seeing as how a translator of WPLR is hardly needed anywhere in New Haven. I wonder if a similar translator is planned for the Hartford area. Of course, the big question is whether there's a format tweak or out-and-out flip on the HD2 when it starts getting fed to the translator. I'm pretty sure all the music and liners have been on that Big D hard drive since well before DRC-FM was sold to Connoisseur. Maybe Connoisseur will update it a little and bring the '70s and early '80s into play while de-emphasizing or dropping the '50s, which is now of interest mainly to people in their 70s and 80s.
I been listening to the oldies simulcast of WDRC-FM-HD2 and WPLR-HD2 on my car radio. On PLR-HD2, it sounds like they are using low-quality internet stream of WDRC-FM-HD2.
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