day, January 10, 2014 00:44
To: 'Shortwave programming discussion'
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news
Ted, it's not that there is anything wrong with services like Me-TV or
Antenna TV per se. I occasionally get some amusement out of watching old
shows myself.
It's simpl
PM
To: Scott Royall; Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news
We should have this conversation in the Hospitality Room at the Fest.
We'll have the beverages...and we can even have some tea for Scott!
RC
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Scott Royall wrote
lto:swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Ted
S.
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 9:50 PM
To: Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:16:41 -0500, in shortwave you wrote:
> Two examples of this come to mind. A few months
We should have this conversation in the Hospitality Room at the Fest.
We'll have the beverages...and we can even have some tea for Scott!
RC
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Scott Royall wrote:
> For me, just tea, please. :)
>
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For me, just tea, please. :)
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From: Swprograms [mailto:swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of
John A. Figliozzi
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 21:17
To: Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news
I see you, me, Scott and a
I see you, me, Scott and a few others could have a lot of fun with this topic
over a few adult beverages. :)
Sent from my iPad
> On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:00 PM, "Ted S." wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:28:55 -0500, in shortwave you wrote:
>>
>> I think you've misunderstood, Ted. The criticism
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:16:41 -0500, in shortwave you wrote:
> Two examples of this come to mind. A few months before the digital
> changeover I had a meeting with an executive at one of the Columbus
> TV stations. Ostensibly, I was there to talk sports programming and
> promotion. I asked him: "so
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:28:55 -0500, in shortwave you wrote:
> I think you've misunderstood, Ted. The criticism of government
> policy regards allowing (in fact fostering) concentration of control
> over a public resource--not a public vs. private broadcasting
> argument.
One of the points I was t
Shortwave programming discussion
> Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news
>
>> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:12:22 -0500, in shortwave you wrote:
>>
>> You'd
>> think the squandered opportunity to put a meaningful format on WWKB
>
> This comes up against Scott Ro
9, 2014 19:43
To: Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:12:22 -0500, in shortwave you wrote:
> You'd
> think the squandered opportunity to put a meaningful format on WWKB
This comes up against Scott Royall's comment, as y
I think you've misunderstood, Ted. The criticism of government policy regards
allowing (in fact fostering) concentration of control over a public
resource--not a public vs. private broadcasting argument.
So, as to the sports talk situation, in Buffalo at least WGR is already widely
heard on it
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From: Swprograms [mailto:swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Kevin
Anderson
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 4:23 PM
To: Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news
On Thu, 1/9/14, David Goren wrote:
> Is there a prohibitio
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:12:22 -0500, in shortwave you wrote:
> You'd
> think the squandered opportunity to put a meaningful format on WWKB
This comes up against Scott Royall's comment, as you're implying that
sports talk is somehow not meaningful. (Ever since the New York ESPN
Radio affiliate went
On Jan 9, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Richard Cuff wrote:
> David, I surmise that stations aren't interested in doing that unless
> a gun were held to their heads.
>
> SCA is different - it doesn't directly compete with the principal
> station's programming.
There are a couple of HD-2's in NYC that are
David, I surmise that stations aren't interested in doing that unless
a gun were held to their heads.
SCA is different - it doesn't directly compete with the principal
station's programming.
Look at the situation up in Buffalo - Entercom is the dominant player,
and parks ESPN on its 50 kW WWKB tr
heh - you're right, Scott...that definition would be difficult to
impossible, and the prevailing concept would be to simply let market
forces have their way, and we can see how well commercial HD radio has
done.
In this region KYW Philadelphia is simulcast on an HD2 FM channel in
addition to its c
On Thu, 1/9/14, David Goren wrote:
> Is there a prohibition for stations
> to lease their HD-2 and HD-3 in a manner similar to FM
> subcarrier stations? Otherwise, that could be a model.
I don't believe there is an FCC regulation that would deny this possibility,
which means it is more flexibl
grams-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of
Richard Cuff
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 09:57
To: Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news
Reminds me of the term "dark fiber" - from the telecommunications industry.
When long-haul fiber optic cable
Is there a prohibition for stations to lease their HD-2 and HD-3 in a manner
similar to FM subcarrier stations? Otherwise, that could be a model.
On the public radio side, HD is actually a good fit for stations that had
bifurcated formats. Transition to single formats in public radio has been a
Reminds me of the term "dark fiber" - from the telecommunications industry.
When long-haul fiber optic cable was first laid into the ground,
expectations were that its transmission capacity would be sufficient
for a reasonable number of years, allowing for a reasonable period of
cost amortization.
A personal take on the "drive for digital"... (Catchy, eh?)
Ibiquity arguably has the best technology solution here because it alone
addresses the blackout problem that occurs when the digital signal degrades
below threshold. However, like its digital brethren (DAB, DAB+ and DRM, there's
really
A slew of news on digital radio today at radiomagonline.com:
New Siano chip supports both mobile TV and digital radio (DAB, DRM, DVB, etc) :
http://tinyurl.com/qbv4zpy
Ibiquity claims big growth in sales and listening (umm, divide this by the 315
million population in the US and it's not as im
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