{"id":1797,"date":"2010-10-27T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T11:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-07-29T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T20:16:08","slug":"hd-radio-equipment-on-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2010\/10\/hd-radio-equipment-on-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"HD Radio equipment, on trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been about a month now, has anyone taken them up on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbr.com\/radio\/engineering\/station-ops\/27826.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>iBiquity Digital and Citadel Media announced a partnership which will enable stations to upgrade to digital while avoiding cash expenditure. Stations will have the opportunity to provide on-air inventory to Citadel Media in exchange for the HD Radio license fee and equipment supplied by Broadcast Electronics, Continental, Harris and Nautel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I was sure that my former employer, now that I have left the company, would at least look into this. \u00a0I know there are many other frugal like-minded companies out there that look at trade as being &#8220;free.&#8221; \u00a0Anytime I had a building project, like paving the parking lot or replacing the roof membrane, the first question asked was &#8220;Can we trade it?&#8221; \u00a0I hated dealing with trade. \u00a0Often, it would end up as a half-paved parking lot and the general manager asking &#8220;Gee, what happened?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would be surprised if this iBiquity scheme didn&#8217;t generate at least some interest in the HD radio holdouts. Has anybody heard anything else on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been about a month now, has anyone taken them up on this: iBiquity Digital and Citadel Media announced a partnership which will enable stations to upgrade to digital while avoiding cash expenditure. Stations will have the opportunity to provide on-air inventory to Citadel Media in exchange for the HD Radio license fee and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2010\/10\/hd-radio-equipment-on-trade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HD Radio equipment, on trade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[303,89],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hd-radio","tag-hd-radio","tag-iboc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12343,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/12343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}