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WVIP-HD3 now broadcasting country

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ansky212

I noticed today that WVIP-HD3 (93.5) is now broadcasting a country station. I listened online for a couple hours as my reception of the station is not strong enough to lock onto HD. The station seems ok. There are no jocks and they seem to play more obscure tracks than stations like WKMK. I listen to country music regularly and there were a lot of tracks I had never heard before. At least it's a country option for the handful of people that own HD radios.

website: http://www.countryhitshd.com/
 
I receive WVIP quite well. It is currently not broadcasting in HD.
Hopefully this country music service will actually go on the air soon. The website's main page indicates it will be on HD3, but the "About" page states that it would be on HD2.
As a country music fan, I wish this local venture well. But it seems very tough to attract sponsors to an HD radio station.
WVIP until recently had an HD2 broadcasting Caribbean music (totally separate from the West Indian programming on the main channel). I only heard one advertiser. This channel was shut down, after just a few months on the air. Sister station WVOX was then rebroadcast on the HD2 for a few weeks. That ended not long ago.
Listening online, it seems that so far they are only playing currents.
 
A friend checked with WVIP. He was told that Country Hits HD will indeed broadcast on WVIP 93.5 HD3. The station is working out some technical issues and expects to have HD running toward the end of the week (why are so many stations having problems with their HD equipment?).
Listening online, it is apparent that Country Hits HD does play some current songs that are not heard on the average country station. I would consider that a plus.
While this HD channel may not attract enough listeners to be a commercial success, kudos to WVIP/WVOX for broadcasting a major format that is lacking in New York, and offering original programming on HD.
 
Barry said:
While this HD channel may not attract enough listeners to be a commercial success, kudos to WVIP/WVOX for broadcasting a major format that is lacking in New York, and offering original programming on HD.
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My guess is that WVIP's "generosity" will only last as long as the programmer is willing to pay for the airtime.
 
ansky212 said:
I noticed today that WVIP-HD3 (93.5) is now broadcasting a country station... At least it's a country option for the handful of people that own HD radios.
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More like a fingernail-full. ::)
 
Ironically, now that the launch of a country station on 93.5 WVIP HD3 is imminent, New York Country returned this afternoon to WLTW HD2. 106.7 HD2 has not been full-time country since last May, when they were preparing to use the frequency to provide programming for that ill-fated midtown translator on 106.3.
As before, New York Country is a rebroadcast of Clear Channel's Country Road channel, which has good dj's. I hope they will add in a few classic country songs each weekday morning, as they had done in the past.
 
Wow Looks like Clear Channel got scared. Personally I like the music much better on Country Hits HD ;D
 
I don't think CC got scared. All of these HD-2/3 formats are placeholders to keep something on the air. All engineers and station staff can now listen. And the 4 people with HD radios that can actually receive the HD-2/3 well.

With no analog blend, the complaints are numerous on the secondary services.
 
I doubt that I can get VIP hd3-I could not get their hd signal here in midwood Brooklyn before!!! All this country activity means that a regular country station for NYC/parts of the market is possible. Nothing lasts forever in radio.
 
So they finally fixed the 106.7 HD transmitter? Took them long enough.

106.7-"HD2" has been country ever since the HD transmitter failed. It was only on the Internet.
 
I wonder if a more powerful HD transmitter was installed for New York Country WLTW HD2, during the many weeks it was off the air.
It seems to have a considerably stronger signal now. I heard it reliably over a wide swath of the Metro area, with only a few momentary dropouts. The music is in mono; perhaps that helps the reception.
New York Country is apparently no longer carrying the syndicated Big D and Bubba show during mornings. I'm not sure whether they also stopped running After Midnight, with Blair Garner.
 
Nearly all of these HD2/3 channels are merely automated jukeboxes festooned with irritating low-rent commercials and maybe some generic voice tracking parachuted in if you're "lucky". Who cares? You're better off streaming a Pandora channel or a well-programmed real station from another market. These are not true New York stations, they offer nothing local or unique and the owners invest nothing into them (WFUV's HD3 The Alternate Side being the rare exception).
 
HD Country Hits is now being broadcast on WVIP HD3, as of this morning. It had been online only, as WVIP's HD had been down for a few weeks.
So there is now a choice of two HD country stations in New York, as New York Country returned to WLTW HD2 earlier this week, after a 4 month absence. When WALK HD2 on Long Island eventually returns, there will be 3 country stations in the area, on HD channels.
 
I just heard a request on Country Hits HD taken. Pretty cool, it seems you can call up a number and leave a message for a request and they actually play your message. I like the content and listener attention they are providing over Lite FM's HD. Even though they don't have personalities (which I think I prefer this format without them in NYC), things like this make it more than just a playlist programmed from Dallas.

I noticed the RDS isn't programmed yet on this station so hopefully they get that going, but if there is a song I don't know I just visit their website and look at the recent playlist
 
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