Diymedia.net is the best source for the scoop on HD radio technicalities (link on right). A recent post dealt with the FCC’s approving a power boost for HD radio transmitters, noting: “as predicted, NPR’s technical analysis was used as a foil to both approve the power hike and pooh-pooh any concerns of increased interference from [...]
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WGBH Boston just released monthly (February) Arbitron ratings, indicators that track radio listenership, show that since the November changes, listenership at the new all-talk WGBH has remained flat and at the new all-classical WCRB’s has declined. It seems timely therefore to revisit the issue of what is going on at these stations…. Read the original [...]
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In an Austin Business Journal story, KUT GM Stewart Vanderwilt is quoted as saying the new Belo Center that will house the station “will boast an open and transparent design [unlike station finances, which might as well be CIA funding] intended to engage the community at the street level and inside the studio.” The story [...]
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The good news? Radio revenues will increase to $13.9 billion this year. The bad? They were $20 billion ten years ago. Sayeth one analyst: I’ve been a big critic of the radio industry because it has not responded to the challenges of the Internet era and audience fragmentation. Instead of trying to develop compelling local [...]
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WBFO in Buffalo, NY Add WBFO in Buffalo to the list of “public” stations gone all-talk. And now WDET in Detroit, which ditched music several years ago, is bringing some music back — on its HD station (here). The more things change…
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Say, guvner . . . At the BBC, where HD radio is superior to that offered by monopoly iBiquity (and predates it by five years), suits are re-thinking the whole digital radio scam, preparing to give the ax to stations. In Europe, they use a completely different spectrum than that used by iBiquity. Here, they [...]
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This was originally posted March 6 to Supporters of Folk and Blues on WGBH: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=201481030324&ref=nf Just returned from the Town Green Coffeehouse in Princeton where Brooks Williams was the feature. His new CD, “Baby O!,” is stellar. Will be officially released this week, RGBM -1001. Of particular note is the song “Moon on Down.” Brooks [...]
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Seems to me they have completely lost sight of the audience Public Radio was created to serve. The fact that programming appeals to more people undermines the need for such programming on public radio, created to serve under-served audiences. Programming with broad commercial appeal belongs in the commercial market. Am I right about this? Public [...]
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It’s not just Corporation for Public Broadcasting money that’s being shunted off to HD radio scams… “Think back to the 2008 campaign. Among the images of Minnesota lakes and forests, or even arts endeavors, did you read or hear anything about using public taxes to expand a radio station’s programming? Much less, programming specifically for [...]
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At the end of last year, HD radio appears to be teetering on eight-trackdom. According to Reuters, the Big Three automakers, for one, are holding off on putting any more money in iBiquity’s pocket. And this from diymedia.net: 12/21/09 – HD Radio Ends Year On Slide Although the marketplace doesn’t seem to have made up [...]
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