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