[BC] Monitoring IBUZ Secondaries - NOT

[robertm@nyc.rr.com]

Gee

Rich is not the only one who is hearing them. I do as well.

R

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com>
Date: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:06 am
Subject: Re: [BC] Monitoring IBUZ Secondaries - NOT
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>

> 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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