This post, “Radio’s digital dilemma: broadcasting in the 21st century,” on the University of Illinois website, pretty much says it all — Big Money (and NPR) muscled compliant FCC into a system designed to make a few people rich and thwart competition, ends up being trash: The interaction of policy and technological development in the [...]
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A correspondent sent this link along about the latest developments in HD radio, along with a scathing commentary about what this latest insanity portends: From http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/tri-11302011.html this morning (11/30): Improving HD Radio reception is the goal of an FCC Public Notice on “Asymmetric sideband operations”, and now we’ve got the comment dates. Comments are due by [...]
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The wags over at Radio-info.com discussion boards are giving the post mortems on HD radio. The link there from radioskeptic leads to the following from a laid-off employee at iBiquity, huckster company extraordinaire, which has managed to float for nigh on ten years without a discernible ROI: iBiquity = Titanic That place had around 5 [...]
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John Anderson of DIYmedia.net (link on right) has kept abreast of the debacle that has been HD radio, and this latest post, reprinted in its entirety, pretty much sums it up. How can this company, with no basic income, still be around — particularly given the hopelessness of its product and prospects: HD Radio Still [...]
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On the Audizine website, this damning exchange about HD radio just about says it all. With word of mouth like this, who needs enemies? pcblion: Just picked up my 2011 S4 about a week ago and today I started having a problem with my radio and I was wondering if there are any others out [...]
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Phyllis Stark, writing in her Stark Country newsletter on Radio-Info.com, had some more bad news for the few remaining HD radio proponents, here printed in its entirety: In last Thursday’s issue, we raised the question “HD Radio: What Went Wrong?” after radio panelists at a recent convention debated that very topic and concluded that HD [...]
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The suits are wildly spinning for ‘GBH in Boston, in wake of the takeover of the student station at Bryant University. Bean counters at Bryant — acting the good industrialist as ‘GBH honchos did in busting up their union — have now begun to put that most favorable light on this latest acquisition, to wit: [...]
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The ‘GBH borg in Boston keeps gobbling up stations in the region. WGBH is taking over the Bryant University station WJMF in Smithfield, RI, and facilitating a power increase from 225 to 1200 watts for WJMF, which, as of August, will become a simulcast of WCRB “99.5 All Classical,” the classical music station acquired by [...]
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Tom Taylor’s newsletter carried the latest bad news for college radio: WDUQ in Pittsburgh, sold by the bean counters at Duquesne to a public radio group “enhanced” by dollars from a PRC offshoot, Public Media Company, and absorbed into the NPR borg, will shove the beloved jazz programming off into HD purgatory. PRC was brought [...]
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John Anderson posted the following piece on his blog DIYmedia.net about the slipshod fashion in which the FCC is going about its business, allowing the corporate giants in radioland to do an end run around its regulations governing the number of radio stations any one company can own in a given area. The big surprise [...]
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