[BC] Uselessness of HD

[Rob Landry]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Rich Wood wrote:

> Sponsors (and agencies) would be irate. Arbitron's credibility would
> be at stake. Arbitron requires sources that are not 100% duplicated
> to be encoded separately. That's why Internet streams can't be
> combined with any others because the spots are usually different,
> thanks to the AFTRA requirement for additional payments to talent.

Even Internet streams that duplicate the station 100% are required to 
encode separately -- that's what I was told by the Arbitron guy who sent 
my clients encoders.

HD-1's, however, are not separately encoded.

Rob