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WWYZ-HD2 and WHCN-HD2 out of action

C

CTListener

For about a week, the WWYZ and WHCN HD2 streams have been silent, with a dead carrier (subcarrier?) for audio and on-screen displays of "Wwyz-Hd2" or "Whcn-Hd2" on both lines.

Clear Channel seems to be having an inordinate amount of trouble with these two stations' HD2s. Meanwhile, the HD2 streams of WKCI and WKSS roll on, uninterrupted and apparently glitch-free. What gives?
 
I noticed that after I got my new Zune HD. The listings are on the screen, but no audio. I have since heard that CC gave an order to its stations not to fix HD2 computers.
 
How incompetant of CC management! Every year, more and more folks are getting HD radios for Christmas. They should have at least had the brains to maintain their HD-2s well through the holidays. All the better for the privately owned companies in CT who know radio, and truly serve the community.
 
For the HD radio consumer, this is like buying a ticket to Las Vegas, getting on the plane and then finding out they decided to only go as far as Albuquerque... "Sorry, we ran low on money for fuel - no refunds." Only nobody's apologizing.
 
FlatTop said:
How incompetant of CC management! Every year, more and more folks are getting HD radios for Christmas. They should have at least had the brains to maintain their HD-2s well through the holidays. All the better for the privately owned companies in CT who know radio, and truly serve the community.
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One of those privately owned companies, which owns WCCC, scuttled its classical music HD2 channel last year, crying poverty. Another privately owned company, now operating WURH on the ultra-cheap, is doing nothing with its HD2. The third, which owns WDRC, has an operational HD2 but no way to display title/artist info. HD2 (and HD3) serves the community by providing music choices the community doesn't otherwise have on commercial FM. That's annoying but at least they're giving the listener something different. How are the first two privately owned companies mentioned serving the community by abandoning HD?

If the previous poster is correct, and Clear Channel is telling its stations to let HD die, what does that mean for other members of that loose "alliance" that championed HD from the outset?

I have yet to hear a single commercial on an HD2 music stream -- no surprise, given the evaporation of ad revenue on the main signals. Could that be behind Clear Channel's decision? If so, could CBS Radio be far behind?
 
CTListener said:
FlatTop said:
How incompetant of CC management! Every year, more and more folks are getting HD radios for Christmas. They should have at least had the brains to maintain their HD-2s well through the holidays. All the better for the privately owned companies in CT who know radio, and truly serve the community.
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One of those privately owned companies, which owns WCCC, scuttled its classical music HD2 channel last year, crying poverty. Another privately owned company, now operating WURH on the ultra-cheap, is doing nothing with its HD2. The third, which owns WDRC, has an operational HD2 but no way to display title/artist info. HD2 (and HD3) serves the community by providing music choices the community doesn't otherwise have on commercial FM. That's annoying but at least they're giving the listener something different. How are the first two privately owned companies mentioned serving the community by abandoning HD?

If the previous poster is correct, and Clear Channel is telling its stations to let HD die, what does that mean for other members of that loose "alliance" that championed HD from the outset?

I have yet to hear a single commercial on an HD2 music stream -- no surprise, given the evaporation of ad revenue on the main signals. Could that be behind Clear Channel's decision? If so, could CBS Radio be far behind?
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Big brain cramp on my part in this last post, which somehow I don't have the ability to edit. (No "edit" option shows up on my screen.) Anyway, I'm fully aware that WURH is now WMRQ again, and that its HD2 is now carrying a Spanish-language "tropical" music format.
 
CTListener said:
Another privately owned company, now operating WURH on the ultra-cheap, is doing nothing with its HD2. The third, which owns WDRC, has an operational HD2 but no way to display title/artist info. HD2 (and HD3) serves the community by providing music choices the community doesn't otherwise have on commercial FM. That's annoying but at least they're giving the listener something different. How are the first two privately owned companies mentioned serving the community by abandoning HD?

If the previous poster is correct, and Clear Channel is telling its stations to let HD die, what does that mean for other members of that loose "alliance" that championed HD from the outset?

I have yet to hear a single commercial on an HD2 music stream
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WURH has been WMRQ since May 2009. I would hardly call the Spanish Tropical format on WMRQ HD2 - also on the Bolton translator at 97.5 - doing nothing. Yes, the new arrival has been heavily promoted as 97.5, but the HD2 is the originating station for content. 104.1 HD2 also makes that content available in many areas outside of the 60-watt 97.5 signal's coverage. And yes, advertisers buy commercials on La Bomba 97.5 and 104.1 HD2. There are also real people throughout the company who have been working hard to make this station - and the main HD1 channel - happen.
 

Big brain cramp on my part in this last post, which somehow I don't have the ability to edit. (No "edit" option shows up on my screen.) Anyway, I'm fully aware that WURH is now WMRQ again, and that its HD2 is now carrying a Spanish-language "tropical" music format.
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I might have known. You're usually very accurate with your info. Thanks...
 
I wonder how all these HD sub channels will be recorded by history. Will they be seen in the future as having about as much effect on CT Radio history as WTHT-FM?
 
CTListener said:
Somebody dared to fix the HD computers! 92.5 and 105.9 are back on HD2!
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Maybe we embarrassed them on this board, or maybe we didn't. :) Glad to see they have restored their HD2 channels with RDS. DRC-FM HD2 does not give RDS info. WKSS-HD2 is airing a promo for an an upcoming Fabulous 95.7 HD2.
 
Bill1820 said:
CTListener said:
Somebody dared to fix the HD computers! 92.5 and 105.9 are back on HD2!
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Maybe we embarrassed them on this board, or maybe we didn't. :) Glad to see they have restored their HD2 channels with RDS. DRC-FM HD2 does not give RDS info. WKSS-HD2 is airing a promo for an an upcoming Fabulous 95.7 HD2.
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Tom Ray of Buckley posted a while back that the lack of RDS on DRC-FM-HD2 is due to the technical limitations of the equipment Buckley bought when it was setting up the HD2 operation.

"Fabulous" just sounds like a tweak, or a mere renaming, of "Pride," the existing Clear Channel format on WKSS-HD2. What I'd like to hear is a channel concentrating on music from Kiss' heyday, its first half dozen years. It was a great-sounding CHR back then, and there was plenty of fresh music to add every week.
 
Kiss hd-2 has been saying "coming soon" since the beginning, and they also have courtney promoting some show or something, but I never did catch the name or time. I guess the promoted show is gay focused, but who knows. I still don't understand why they think dance music with occasional Judy Garland or random musical tracks constitutes gay programming.
 
I don't know why people associate Dance Music (HARTFORD NEEDS A DANZ STAY-SHUN!) *cough* Excuse me. As I was saying I don't know why people associate Dance Music with the gay community. The same goes for Disco Music. Though I guess the Disco Music thing is because of The Village People. "It's Raining Men" gets airplay on any station that has some Disco Music in it's rotation. My old show used to have some disco music in it. I played the song and get my chops busted by the Chief Engineer of the Radio Station saying to me he questions my sexuality after playing that song. - Gee does that mean if I get on the air and play a Lady Ga-Ga song I'm bi-sexual?
 
If ever such a thing as a dance station were to happen, I'd be willing to program the music and yes, it's true a straight man can program dance music.
 
MarcB said:
I don't know why people associate Dance Music (HARTFORD NEEDS A DANZ STAY-SHUN!) *cough* Excuse me. As I was saying I don't know why people associate Dance Music with the gay community. The same goes for Disco Music. Though I guess the Disco Music thing is because of The Village People. "It's Raining Men" gets airplay on any station that has some Disco Music in it's rotation. My old show used to have some disco music in it. I played the song and get my chops busted by the Chief Engineer of the Radio Station saying to me he questions my sexuality after playing that song. - Gee does that mean if I get on the air and play a Lady Ga-Ga song I'm bi-sexual?
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Was that station WXCT 990?
 
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