[BC] Monitoring IBUZ Secondaries - NOT

[Mike McCarthy]

Commercials are not allowed on HD 2 yet.  Any supplemental audio is 
considered experimental and thus can't not be commercially supported.

MM

At 09:49 AM 2/16/2007 -0500, Rich Wood wrote
>IBUZ secondary being ignored. Volume 2:
>
>As I'm typing this I'm listening to WTIC-HD2, Hartford. There are two 
>audio sources running simultaneously during spots. Since it's a simulcast 
>I can only assume AM spots are being replaced on the secondary. It's been 
>happening only during spots. In the last 30 minutes every spot set has had 
>two audio sources running. I can't imagine WTIC-AM not hearing this on the 
>analog if it's a full simulcast. Again, we're dealing with throwaway 
>secondaries. Nobody appears to be monitoring them. I made easily 20 phone 
>calls to tell them about it. I was greeted with voicemail everywhere. Not 
>even a receptionist. This is one of the dominant stations in Hartford. 
>Even the news department had voicemail. I guess the only way to get 
>through to the station is to call the Talk Show line. I even called the 
>other stations in the cluster. All had voicemail.
>
>It's a good thing, I hope, advertisers aren't paying for this. They have a 
>ton of makegoods to run if they are. The owner of WTIC is also a member of 
>the HD Dominion. The complaint of the head of the HD Dominion appears to 
>have fallen on deaf ears. His complaint is legitimate. Secondaries are 
>thowaways.
>
>This is the second station this week, both owned by HD Dominion members 
>where the secondary wasn't being monitored. Now, tell me, again, why I 
>should buy an IBUZ receiver if I'm a listener. The station doesn't care. 
>Why should I?
>
>Rich
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