[BC] Uselessness of HD

Mike McCarthy towers at mre.com
Tue Jun 26 13:39:41 CDT 2012


The point is to provide content reception for the 99.5% of the desired
demo which doesn't have HD Radios.  In this case, Spanish sports.

Since the translator is the one really driving the revenue, they might
have an out with Ibuiquity.

The moratorium was in part related to Ibiquity getting their act together.
 But any FCC restrictions were sunset long ago shortly after the standards
for adding the secondary services were settled.  It didn't happer roll out
in the least.

MM

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com> wrote:
>> #1 Not so.  The translator of an HD-2 can be fed directly just like
>> AM's.
>>
>
> If it's in the back yard, what's the point of the HD2 then?
>
>> #3  In the station's case here, it's moot as the translator is direct
>> fed.
>>
>
> See above.
> --
> Alex Hartman
>
>



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