To use the same quote as Glenn did above, there’s no incentive to people to buy these radios, not in Hampton Roads (SE VA). Most stations are NOT doing a subchannel.

But I do wonder about Glenn’s comment… “The diversity of programming is still very similar to what we see on commercial radio: more of the same.” Well, one of the subchannels heard around here is “All Comedy Network.” How long would one listen to this?

“I’m pretty bearish on the technology despite about 2,000 radio stations broadcasting in HD format.”

“Have 200 HD Radio stations gone missing?”

“The HD Radio camp is advertising that there are currently over 1,500 radio stations now broadcasting in HD (from its website, to press releases as well as in various other promotions)… but yet only 1,300 have filed with the FCC.”

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/have-200-hd-radio-stations-gone-missing.html

Missing-in-action, Glenn? Whatever happened to those 200 missing HD stations?

HD/IBOC also jams itself, and others, on both FM and AM:

“HD Interference: Not Just For AM Anymore”

“Radio World Engineering Extra dropped a bomb this month with a very provocative cover story: ‘What Are We Doing to Ourselves, Exactly?’ Written by Doug Vernier, the man who authored the technical specifications for an ongoing Corporation for Public Broadcasting-sponsored HD Radio interference analysis, the report is the first of its kind to document interference between FM-HD stations around the country. Using anecdotal reportage, some sophisticated contour-mapping, and presumably ‘early data’ from the CPB study, Vernier’s article conclusively proves how stations running in hybrid HD/analog mode can (and do) interfere somewhat significantly with not only themselves, but their neighbors on the FM dial.”

http://diymedia.net/archive/1207.htm#122307

“AM Broadcasters Back Away from HD Deployment”

“This is a major setback for the adoption of HD Radio, especially on the AM dial, and Citadel is the first large broadcast conglomerate to back away from full deployment of the HD broadcast technology. Although the company’s gone out of its way not to characterize its move an indictment of iBiquity’s proprietary digital broadcast standard, the problems with AM HD broadcast interference are well-known and -documented.”

http://diymedia.net/archive/1007.htm#101307

Let’s tell the whole truth here, Glenn. FM-HD jams, too. Wait until the proposed 10db FM-HD power increase, if aproved, and if any of the HD stations could afford to replace all existing HD hardware. LOL!

“I’m pretty bearish on the technology despite about 2,000 radio stations broadcasting in HD format.”

“Have 200 HD Radio stations gone missing?”

“The HD Radio camp is advertising that there are currently over 1,500 radio stations now broadcasting in HD (from its website, to press releases as well as in various other promotions)… but yet only 1,300 have filed with the FCC.”

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/have-200-hd-radio-stations-gone-missing.html

Missing-in-action, Glenn?

HD/IBOC also jams itself, and others, on both FM and AM:

“HD Interference: Not Just For AM Anymore”

“Radio World Engineering Extra dropped a bomb this month with a very provocative cover story: ‘What Are We Doing to Ourselves, Exactly?’ Written by Doug Vernier, the man who authored the technical specifications for an ongoing Corporation for Public Broadcasting-sponsored HD Radio interference analysis, the report is the first of its kind to document interference between FM-HD stations around the country. Using anecdotal reportage, some sophisticated contour-mapping, and presumably ‘early data’ from the CPB study, Vernier’s article conclusively proves how stations running in hybrid HD/analog mode can (and do) interfere somewhat significantly with not only themselves, but their neighbors on the FM dial.”

http://diymedia.net/archive/1207.htm#122307

“AM Broadcasters Back Away from HD Deployment”

“This is a major setback for the adoption of HD Radio, especially on the AM dial, and Citadel is the first large broadcast conglomerate to back away from full deployment of the HD broadcast technology. Although the company’s gone out of its way not to characterize its move an indictment of iBiquity’s proprietary digital broadcast standard, the problems with AM HD broadcast interference are well-known and -documented.”

http://diymedia.net/archive/1007.htm#101307

Let’s tell the whole truth here, Glenn.

Frankly, despite having written about HD Radio for years (for the New York Times, Popular Science, and my own blog on digital AM/FM), I’m pretty bearish on the technology despite about 2,000 radio stations broadcasting in HD format.

The reason? The diversity of programming is still very similar to what we see on commercial radio: more of the same. Public radio is offering interesting alternatives, but they’ll only be able to broadcast 3 to 5 channels, which doesn’t make for viable alternatives. The only way the programming side becomes interesting is if there’s a lot more interest in putting “niche” programming (stuff that XM/Sirius devotes multiple channels to) in the sub-channels on FM.

There are also serious technical issue with nighttime AM broadcasting that haven’t been fully exposed to the light of day, as it were. Radio World, an industry publication, has written extensively about early problems with nighttime AM broadcasts, where digital signals interfere with analog stations. It’s not clear what needs to be done to improve that situation, or whether it’s uniformly a problem.

The commenter above are the Peanut Gallery. They, like me, obviously have Yahoo or Google keyword news feeds for HD Radio. Whenever they get a link to a post, they post links to stuff and irate screeds. They focus on the big, underreported FCC giveaway to iBiquity (a single technology controlled by a single firm was given the nod for the future of terrestrial radio with little review).

“No ‘HD tagging’ required. No HD radios required, in fact. Why buy a new radio in order to tag your songs when you can do it on an iPod right now?”

http://www.hear2.com/2008/02/who-needs-taggi.html

That’s all folks!

“But after an investigation of HD Radio units, the stations playing HD, and the company that owns the technology; and some interviews with the wonks in DC, it looks like HD Radio is a high-level corporate scam, a huge carny shill.”

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-03-07/music/hd-radio-on-the-offense

http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com