Hi all wonder whats your favorite HD radio channels?Here in NYC,mine is 104.3-2 it has an awesome mix of alternative music and 95.5-2 True Oldies,another format that dropped off regular FM in the favor of TALK.Just picked up an HD radio by JVC for 9.99 at my local radio shack,pretty cool deal.
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Your favorite HD radio station?
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WHUR-HD2 Washington DC also known as WHUR World. Eclectic mix of urban formatted programming - urban AC, hip-hop, gospel, smooth jazz plus specialty programming. Very professionally run, live DJs, light commercial load and programmed like no FM/HD1 would ever be. I listen to it on the TuneIn Radio app on Android since I am out of the listening market.
So far the only HD-2 I've grown attached to locally is the relay of the Clear Channel talk station on AM, which doesn't reach my neighborhood at night. I don't care for the political talk but enjoy the ghost-n-goblins talk of Coast to Coast AM occasionally, and since it's hard to find online, the HD-2 is the go-to for listening.
Our local rock station had an HD-2 with a different rock feed (more alternative/modern, less recurrents) but it's been off the air for months and there's no way to contact anyone to fix it that I can find. It's a shame, I really enjoyed that secondary feed.
Our local rock station had an HD-2 with a different rock feed (more alternative/modern, less recurrents) but it's been off the air for months and there's no way to contact anyone to fix it that I can find. It's a shame, I really enjoyed that secondary feed.
That relay is about 30 seconds delay from the AM signal. If it was the same I would be listening to it. For the most part I have gotten my antenna high enough to make it reliable for reception at my home here in Sa-ra-so-ta!Zach said:
In the car is another matter. There is nothing that can be done with that signal short of them putting the station on another hd-x from a station in their Sa-ra-so-ta! cluster.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
Zach said:badjef said:
I was talking about WNTM in Mobile, Alabama. They're on the area's classic rock, WRKH HD-2. If you get the AM from Sa-ra-so-ta you've got a much better radio than I!
Interesting, it seems that CCU has a model that they think works everywhere the have signals. Well, it won't. Explains the cookie-cutter markets that is making radio more and more boring.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
P.S. Zack, if you are going to quote me, remember the "!" with my sig.
In St. Louis, there are two HD's that I enjoy. One is "KSHE-2," which is a locally programmed HD, owned by Emmis. It's a deep-cuts style Classic Rock station. Their programming mixes a few 1960's oldies, local AOR favorites (known here as "K-SHE Klassics"), and some new recordings by heritage rock artists.
The other is Hubbard's "Deep Cuts" Classic Rock format, which is the HD-2 of WARH (The Arch). Its programming originates from Chicago's WDRV, and is marketed as an HD-2 format in several markets and is also available online.
The other is Hubbard's "Deep Cuts" Classic Rock format, which is the HD-2 of WARH (The Arch). Its programming originates from Chicago's WDRV, and is marketed as an HD-2 format in several markets and is also available online.
Zach said:badjef said:
I was talking about WNTM in Mobile, Alabama. They're on the area's classic rock, WRKH HD-2. If you get the AM from Sa-ra-so-ta you've got a much better radio than I!
What AM from Sa-ra-to-sa? (or is that not the common misspelling?) I don't get no AM from Sa-ra-so-ta at my location!
badjef said:Interesting, it seems that CCU has a model that they think works everywhere the have signals. Well, it won't. Explains the cookie-cutter markets that is making radio more and more boring.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
P.S. Zack, if you are going to quote me, remember the "!" with my sig.
Duly noted.
I don't know what the situation is where you are, but here the HD-2 really helps things out. Our flat terrain and lack of first adjacents means it's more solid than most markets, and the AM talker's 1,000 watts day and night is just not enough to really cover the vast outlying areas outside of Mobile. During the day it's OK but at night the signal really gets weak just 10 miles from the towers. That would be where all the nicer suburbs happen to be. The HD-2 probably reaches 25-30 miles fairly reliably… I can usually get a lock on WRKH from Pensacola if I'm careful and that's about 50 miles out.
Zach said:badjef said:Interesting, it seems that CCU has a model that they think works everywhere the have signals. Well, it won't. Explains the cookie-cutter markets that is making radio more and more boring.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
P.S. Zack, if you are going to quote me, remember the "!" with my sig.
Duly noted.
I don't know what the situation is where you are, but here the HD-2 really helps things out. Our flat terrain and lack of first adjacents means it's more solid than most markets, and the AM talker's 1,000 watts day and night is just not enough to really cover the vast outlying areas outside of Mobile. During the day it's OK but at night the signal really gets weak just 10 miles from the towers. That would be where all the nicer suburbs happen to be. The HD-2 probably reaches 25-30 miles fairly reliably… I can usually get a lock on WRKH from Pensacola if I'm careful and that's about 50 miles out.
I can pick up 97.9 reliably to Port Charlotte. But when it comes to its hd-x, that's quite a different story.
HD-2 is a retransmit - albeit a 30 second delay - from 970 WFLA. The same station that carries Coast-to-Coast AM. When I lose the reliability of the hd-2, it is where the noises start to override the audio of the AM signal, the AM-hd goes away as well.
But, Clear Channel - Tampa does not care about that since it overlaps with Clear Channel - Sa-ra-so-ta!. Which means the simulcast on an hd-x on one of their Sa-ra-so-ta! stations is probably not going to happen (unless they are reading these posts).
And further unlikely because of the reliability of the hd equipment and the additional maintenance required with no return of investment.
I do not fundamentally like to see any technology go away, but this one is also taking away the range and reliability we require.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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I would definitely add K-Earth Classics to my roster of favorite HD-2s and enjoyed listening to it when in LA, and now online. But after a while, it's pretty stagnant and just a loop of the same songs over and over.
WDRC-HD2 sounds like a great thing to check out, but it does not appear that Buckley streams it or the main channel online.
My very favorite HD-2 stations are......
KOSY-FM HD-2 Salt Lake City (Radio Radio - alternative classics of the 80s)
KROQ HD-2 Los Angeles (Classic KROQ, 80s alternative)
WRIT-FM HD-2 Milwaukee (Mighty 92, WOKY - hits from the late 50s, 60s and early 70s)
If I stand in front of my house in a certain spot, I can get WRIT HD-2....and it's always a great listen. There's also a blues station on one of the Milwaukee signals (I think it's WMYX 99.1 HD-2) that's very good.
I did like the sound of WDRC-FM HD2 when I was in Hartford, but didn't have time to really sample it. What I find interesting is that most of the best markets for HD radio options are not large markets (for example, nothing in Chicago, Boston or Philly ever interested me) but rather they are medium sized markets like Milwaukee, Salt Lake, Kansas City, Hartford, etc.
KOSY-FM HD-2 Salt Lake City (Radio Radio - alternative classics of the 80s)
KROQ HD-2 Los Angeles (Classic KROQ, 80s alternative)
WRIT-FM HD-2 Milwaukee (Mighty 92, WOKY - hits from the late 50s, 60s and early 70s)
If I stand in front of my house in a certain spot, I can get WRIT HD-2....and it's always a great listen. There's also a blues station on one of the Milwaukee signals (I think it's WMYX 99.1 HD-2) that's very good.
I did like the sound of WDRC-FM HD2 when I was in Hartford, but didn't have time to really sample it. What I find interesting is that most of the best markets for HD radio options are not large markets (for example, nothing in Chicago, Boston or Philly ever interested me) but rather they are medium sized markets like Milwaukee, Salt Lake, Kansas City, Hartford, etc.
WFUV HD3, WXRK HD2, WAXQ HD2-Alternative rock. All three have on-air personalities. New York no longer has a station playing current rock on regular FM, as strange as that may seem to people elsewhere.
WLTW HD2, WVIP HD3, WALK HD3-Country. New York no longer has a station playing country music on regular FM, as strange as that may seem to people elsewhere :-\.
WLTW HD2, WVIP HD3, WALK HD3-Country. New York no longer has a station playing country music on regular FM, as strange as that may seem to people elsewhere :-\.
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