HD Radio - how complicated d’you want it?
Posted on Sunday, October 1st, 2006 at 7:17pm. #
Not only is The Arizona Daily Star reporting that “there are some new radio stations round these parts but you need a new radio to listen to them” (golly, has XM/Sirius, or internet radio, not reached Arizona yet?) - but it also includes the world’s most complicated information…
HD radio could conceivably double the number of stations in any given market because when stations broadcast on a digital signal, they can split the allotted bandwidth and air two stations on the same amount of air space.For example, with Clear Channel’s new offering, instead of 93.7, listeners with HD radios now have the choice of 93.7-1 (with the same programming as the analog 93.7) and 93.7-2, a country side channel.On the other side channels, 92.9-2 will play jazz, 98.3-2 old-school, hip-hop and R&B; and 97.1-2 will play Tejano.
So, right, let’s get this straight: I can listen to country on 93.7-2? Wha? How do you pronounce that? Huh?
Do HD radio sets really not just work on station names, like DAB Digital Radio does over here? Bizarre. There’s a future-proof technology if ever I, um, didn’t see one.
(via radio.about.com)
