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Classical WQED-FM Pittsburgh HD2 channel features archived performances
WQED-HD2 is launching at 89.3 (and wqed.org/fm), featuring the Pittsburgh Concert Channel’s broadcast of primary station WQED-FM’s archived local performances of the Pittsburgh Symphony Radio series, with select concerts from Chatham Baroque, CMU School of Music and many others. Future plans include performances from other local arts groups. Read More
Cleveland ready to rock again with HD2 alt rock "99X"
Cleveland has been down one rock station since CBS Radio flipped WKRK-FM to all-sports "92.3 The Fan" last Summer. Now alt-rock reemerges in the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the launch of “99X, Cleveland’s New Rock Alternative,” via HD Radio (the HD2 signal of Clear Channel's WMMS/100.7) and a translator.
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Like U.S. HD Radio, Euro's DAB has penetration predicament
While nearly 30% of radio listening in the U.K. is now digital, it has little to do with the penetration of DAB—the kind-of, sort-of Euro equivalent of America’s HD Radio.
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Tom Kent's rallying cry for HD Radio
Syndicator and radio host Tom Kent is singing the praises of HD Radio. In an open letter to the radio industry, he pleads, “Please don’t give up on HD,” admitting that “Yes, right now it’s dead in the water.” But he just bought a new car and was converted by the audio quality of both AM and FM.
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New HD Radio chip for smartphones is "a landmark", says Jeff Smulyan of Emmis
The Emmis CEO has spent years calling on wireless companies and manufacturers, urging their acceptance of first an FM chip in smartphones, and now an HD Radio chip. The chipset introduced at a noontime press conference at the iBiquity exhibit on the NAB Show floor isn't just for making smartphones smarter.
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CBS revives progressive WBCN as innovative move to amp HD listening
CBS Radio is trying to bring back its free-form progressive rock WBCN format in Boston in an effort to attract listeners to the struggling HD Radio technology—in much the same way that rock stations made FM popular in the late 1960s. The storied station's history revolves around a typical corporate evolution, from the “Rock of Boston” to alternativ…
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Non-comm Christian WPOZ Orlando adds a third format via HD signal & translator
Central Florida Educational Foundation's non-commercial Christian AC “Z88.3” WPOZ (Z88.3) Orlando, which operates on a number of translator frequencies throughout Central Florida and is often #1 in its market, has added a third on-air format to its holy mission. WPOZ-HD3’s translator W239BU is now airing at 106.3 as Christian Rock (106.3 The Rock).… Read More
Emmis takes a prototype HD Radio smartphone to the NAB Show in Las Vegas
Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan has been meeting with smartphone makers and others in the wireless industry for several years, pitching them on the inclusion of an analog radio chip. But the ultimate goal was always to get an HD Radio chip stuffed into a phone.
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Is FM Through With New?
For nearly a decade now, the odds have been rigged against any potential new format FM radio built around new music. As Jaye Albright and others have noted, the format boom-bust cycles have usually revolved around some new variant of Oldies—Jammin’ Oldies, all-’80s, Bob- and Jack-FM, Rhythmic Hot AC, gold-based Alternative, all-’90s, and then somet…
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Seattle HD shuffle: Smooth jazz loses, "emerging music" triumphs
Amid a Seattle HD Radio shuffle, the Radio-Info.com Seattle Board shares that smooth jazz is dumped off the HD2 channel of Entercom's KKWF (100.7) "Delta Blues", moving from sister KMTT/103.7, takes its place. That makes way for a new HD2 service for “Emerging Music” at 103.7. Read More
Zero progress in listeners' understanding of HD Radio, says researcher Kassof
From today's TRI Newsletter: Mark Kassof says there is “a continued knowledge gap” out in the listening public, and an awareness gap. In 2008, 67% of 18-64s had “heard of” HD Radio, at a time when HD Radio Alliance members were pounding their promotional spots. Read More
Intriguing Stations Of 2011 – Part II: New Platforms
In the last weeks of 2011, the question, “What is radio?” became only slightly less contentious, or less confounding, than, “Is there a loving, caring God?”For much of 2011, it looked like the pureplays and AM/FM broadcasters were finally, cheerfully obscuring the line between “my preprogrammed radio station” and “your self-contained music collecti…
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2012 CES opens in Las Vegas, with some news about radio
HD Radio developer iBiquity will be at its Central Hall booth, displaying more than 60 new receiver models from makers such as Alpine, Acoustic Research, Audiovox, Clarion, Denon, JVC, Kentwood, Insignia, Marantz and Pioneer. iBiquity expects smartphones on the market this year will have built-in HD Radio technology, and it has models of cellular h…
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HD Radio can help with bad traffic, thanks to NAVTEQ's deal with Garmin
Garmin's nuvi 3490 LMT model - the "T" stands for traffic - will be fed constant traffic updates from NAVTEQ, with the cooperation of participating HD Radio operators. As Chicago-based NAVTEQ explains it:"NAVTEQ can now deliver Traffic updates approximately every 30 seconds over 270,000 miles of the HD Radio(TM) broadcasting system across the Unite…
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HD Radios will be found in Ford hybrid cars in 2012
Auto maker Ford has announced they will offer HD Radio in two hybrid cars scheduled to debut in 2012. For, will be launching the C-MAX hybrid car next year, which they tout as the first dedicated hybrid vehicle and the first "multi-activity vehicle" in North America.
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Emmis reports August radio revs "up a whopping 10%" from last year
Jeff Smulyan tells Emmis staffers "the news is encouraging", though his early-morning conference call with analysts cautioned that the rest of the year may not be like August, when the Beverage category zoomed 45%. Quarterly revenues at the two Chicago stations ("Loop" WLUP/97.9 and alternative "Q101" WKQX) and New York's rock WRXP (101.9) were hur…
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Ford sings the praises of HD Radio
In an open letter to broadcasters, Ford Motors Director of Global Electrical and Electronics Systems Engineering Jim Buczkowski says competition is driving radio to go digital, making HD Radio the next logical step for automakers to embrace. Buczkowski writes, "virtually all car makers have embraced the integrated digital media platform.
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The 2012 Kia Soul will have HD Radio
Kia Motors will extend their reach using HD Radio to their fourth car model, offering HD Radio in their 2012 Kia Soul model. Currently, Kia offers HD Radio in their Optima, Sorento, and Sportage models.
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HD Radio to be available in Toyota's best-selling Camry
Technology developer iBiquity has been trying to widen its reach among Japanese carmakers, and at the January CES in Las Vegas it announced that HD Radio technology was part of the new Toyota Entune system. That infotainment system keys on a driver's smartphone or media player.
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Radio’s Best & Worst: August 18, 2011
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending August 18, 2011. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.*Ratings StoryKLBJ Austin, Texas – It’s the highest-ever PPM share (6.5–6.9, tied for third, and with another two-tenth…
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