Why HD Radio (Still) Doesn't Matter
From the article...
It streams EVERY station on the planet, or so it seems. I'm talking about every station I've ever listened to. It has stations I've picked up while listening at night as a kid. It picks up the stations I listened to commuting in New York and New Jersey and in Pittsburgh. It even has the station I used to listen to to find out whether or not my school would be closed due to snow.
In the age of Pandora and last.fm and iTunes, terrestrial radio has taken a back seat. But for me, as someone who has always enjoyed the thrill of the hunt - picking up a distant AM station at night -- this brings me back to my childhood. And it brings me to places I can't be -- like to my favorite afternoon drive DJ in Pittsburgh.
I almost forgot ... the stations that use RDS (Radio Data) will show what's playing and who's on the air when you search for the station.
...only $5.99.
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Labels: HD Radio, Industry, Internet, iPods, Radio, Streaming, Trendwatch, Webcasting
2 Comments:
I'm with you - I've loved AM and SW Dxing, since I was a kid. Too bad that HD/IBOC is jamming our beloved AM band with digital hash, especially at nighttime:
"Night of the Bees"
"Radio listeners across America are trying to hide from a monster, but there is no shelter. After spending its adolescence in technical trials during daytime hours, IBOC has now come out at night... For example, in New York City, WOR broadcasts on 710 kilohertz. When it turns on its IBOC equipment, the digital noise it produces can be heard on 690, 700, 720 and 730 kilohertz with a reduced fidelity analog audio signal remaining on 710."
http://karlzuk.blogspot.com/2007/09/night-of-bees.html
"AM HD Radio 24 x7 as of September 14, 2007"
"The HD Radio Interference, we will coin it HDRI, is characterized as a loud obnoxious frying egg noise on top of an AM radio station’s analog signal. Here at PopularWireless HQ the kitchen is open and the eggs are cooking big time. A favorite here has been New York’s famous WABC where many enjoy listening to Coast-to-Coast AM in the early mornings. WABC is now plagued by HDRI making listening impossible at times. Across the AM dial the analog receiver is sizzling away."
http://tinyurl.com/3t367l
Luckily, conversions to AM-HD have stopped, with just about 250 of the HD Alliance-owned AM stations, and Citadel is not replacing their broken AM-HD transmitters/exciters, but just using them as spare parts. We must continue the fight, as Struble/iBiquity is not giving up, yet.
If you haven’t yet, you might want include some GTREADS links to prove your point. Google Trends (G/T) tracks the popularity of web searches and sites. If you G/T Hdradio.com you get the message, “Your terms - hdradio.com - do not have enough search volume to show graphs. If you compare Hdradio.com with Sirius.com you’ll see that Bob “the nob’s” line of BS about their exponential Internet awareness is just that BS!
http://www.google.com/trends?q=HDradio.com+%2C+Sirius.com&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1
And satellite radio is HDOA’s weakest competitor, try a G/T comparison of ipod & satellite radio to hdradio and you see an even bigger disparity in HDOA’s web presence.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=hdradio%2C+ipod%2C+satellite+radio&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1
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