Monday, September 17, 2007

rip Sunday morning bluegrass

Okay, it's not totally gone, they say. They've just moved all of my Sunday bluegrass programming to HD Radio. But I don't have HD radio, I have no plans to get HD Radio and if HD Radio is responsible for the loss of my bluegrass from the regular ol' airwaves then I don't even LIKE HD Radio, no matter what the merits may be.

I could rant more, but more than anything else, this just makes me sad. 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

HD Radio is a give-away of our free airways by the FCC to iBiquity and the HD Radio Alliance - HD Radio is a scam to jam smaller broadcasters off the dial with adjacent-channel interference:

“HD Radio on the Offense”

“But after an investigation of HD Radio units, the stations playing HD, and the company that owns the technology; and some interviews with the wonks in DC, it looks like HD Radio is a high-level corporate scam, a huge carny shill.”

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-03-07/music/hd-radio-on-the-offense

Reception of the HD channels require AM-loop and FM-dipole antennas - increasing the HD/IBOC power levels would just increase interference to the analog signals. The HD channels are just bland, repetitive, copies of the analog signals:

“HD Hypocrisy”

“Here’s a few more reasons why only iBiquity and a few clueless radio group heads could make a big thing out of HD radio tagging… The very damn radio stations that broadcast in HD offer no programming worth listening to. HD Radio is a virtual sewer of formats owners don’t want on their terrestrial frequencies and other assorted garbage that no one sane would listen to — let alone spend money for new radios — tagging or not.”

http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/2007/09/hd-hypocrisy.html

There is zero consumer interest in HD Radio and it is up to consumers to determine the fate of HD Radio:

http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com/2007/09/interest-in-hd-radio-remains-flat.html