[BC] extra channel naming

[Robert Meuser]

Bill

Let's take this a step further.

The technical reason for call letters was to literally identify stations and 
resolve interference.

If a station is digital or runs RDBS the real identification can be in the 
digital domain and the station choose how it identifys itself to the general public.

R

Bill Croghan wrote:
> 	The idea of calling the HD subchannels by numbers above 108, i.e.
> 108.1, etc stinks.  The listener is going to try to tune his radio up there,
> then will go out to buy a new one that tunes that frequency and will get VOR
> navigation signals.  Let's not confuse frequency with channel names.  Surely
> there is a better way.  I suspect many stations will want to have some
> identification with their subchannels, and having a 92.9 station identifying
> it's HD2 as 108.5 won't do it.
> Bill
> Bill Croghan CPBE WB?KSW
> Chief Engineer, 
> KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD
> Lotus Broadcasting
> Las Vegas, NV
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:broadcast-
>>bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Rich Wood
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:54 AM
>>To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: [BC] extra channel naming
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>>------ At 11:07 AM 12/13/2005, Reader wrote: -------
>>
>>
>>>Study: Nearly All Consumers Prefer 'Expanded' HD Band
>>>
>>>A new Bob Harper & Co. research funded by Cox Radio found that
>>>consumers overwhelmingly prefer to have HD Radio subchannels appear
>>>on receiver displays as an "expanded FM band," with "addresses"
>>>above 107.9, such as 108.1, 108.3, etc.
>>
>>Not a surprise, at all. That's what I mean when I say "Unique
>>Identifier." It's important for rating purposes, especially since the
>>secondaries will be non-commercial (according to the HD Dominion) for
>>the first couple of years. There has to be some way to separate the
>>WXXX commercial channel from its non-commercial one. As it stands,
>>WXXX HD1 will get the credit for everything that shows up under WXXX.
>>The result will be a phony rating for WXXX. Agencies will question
>>the validity of the numbers.
>>
>>I used to work with Bob. His credibility is good.
>>
>>Rich
>>
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>>Rich Wood
>>Rich Wood Multimedia
>>Phone: 413-303-9084
>>FAX: 413-480-0010
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