http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.1 2012-02-11T16:05:05-06:00 http://www.rbr.com/radio/12018.html 2008-12-25T15:47:00-06:00 2008-12-25T15:47:00-06:00 Carl Marcucci Well, this time it’s not an anomaly or a digital exciter glitch—at least not that we can see. For weeks now the Washington, DC market has been turning off its HD Radio signals en masse http://www.rbr.com/radio/12018.html 2008-12-29T08:54:42-06:00 2008-12-29T08:54:42-06:00 Steve Burgess I noted that WAMU had turned off its HD2 and HD3 channels over the weekend - perhaps a permanent condition? If so, it's a shame because the programming was good. http://www.rbr.com/radio/12018.html 2008-12-29T12:56:36-06:00 2008-12-29T12:56:36-06:00 Pocket Radio I love this! It's finally happening! Stations have finally figured out this HD Radio farce! http://www.rbr.com/radio/12018.html 2008-12-29T14:51:15-06:00 2008-12-29T14:51:15-06:00 Carl Marcucci WAMU is still on with both HD2 and HD3 today, but they certainly could have had problems over the weekend. It doesn't take much. http://www.rbr.com/radio/12018.html 2008-12-29T17:42:40-06:00 2008-12-29T17:42:40-06:00 Randy Kabrich No, the reason the AMs are turning off their HD en masse is because according to tales running in Engineering Circles is that IBOC interfers with PPM encoding (which considering how the PPM encoding works and what the Digital Hash of IBOC sounds like, I can clearly see as a possibility). The information apparently first came out of Clear Channel, but most Major Market AM Engineers are now fully aware of it and HD Radio is being turned off due to this info (whether its true or not). http://www.rbr.com/radio/12018.html 2008-12-30T04:29:34-06:00 2008-12-30T04:29:34-06:00 Pocket Radio "The FM list now includes 106.7 WJFK-FM (CBS Radio); 102.3 WWMJ-FM (Radio One); 104.1 WPRS-FM (Radio One) and 107.7 WWWT-FM (Bonneville)."Any comments as to why some FM-HDs are being shut off? Any comments as to whether this is happening elsewhere - surely! http://www.rbr.com/radio/12018.html 2008-12-30T20:14:42-06:00 2008-12-30T20:14:42-06:00 Pocket Radio The main licensing fee is on-time only:http://www.ibiquity.com/i/pdfs/Licensing_%20Fact_%20Sheet_2008A.pdfThe other yearly fees are rather small - I don't get it. http://www.rbr.com/radio/12018.html 2008-12-30T20:30:03-06:00 2008-12-30T20:30:03-06:00 Pocket Radio "Everybody wants more royalty money""The Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) has just begun a new round of negotiations and we are told that ASCAP is now wanting broadcasters to have a second music license to cover HD2 (HD3, etc.) signals. ASCAP’s negotiators say they should receive fee payments for those new stations because the only reason most aren’t producing revenues is that broadcasters have chosen to run them commercial-free in an effort to build audiences for the future. When RMLC representatives responded that the stations are mostly running commercial free because there are hardly any HD receivers in public hands, ASCAP hauled out a Parks Associates study mentioned in an RBR/TVBR Intelligence Brief predicting that there would be 30 million HD receivers in the marketplace by 2012."http://www.rbr.com/radio/8361.htmlIs RBR talking about these potential fees?