{"id":3974,"date":"2011-10-07T09:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2023-04-29T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T16:56:27","slug":"more-hd-radio-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/more-hd-radio-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More HD radio news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to: HD RADIO™ GOES THE WAY OF THE LASERDISC PLAYER.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An interesting take from a non-broadcaster that gets it mostly right.    The premise for HD radio™, as the author states, was to serve two purposes; improve sound quality and add extra programming channels.  I have a few issues with this statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regarding the improved signal, that still holds true, and can be especially beneficial for AM radio, which has struggled for some time with signal degradation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I would argue the opposite. HD Radio™ has done nothing to improve the signal quality of the AM band. It has, in fact, degraded the band further by adding digital hash to adjacent channels, limiting the on-channel analog bandwidth to less than 5 KHz and creating on-channel background hiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, HD Radio™ has done neither of those two stated goals. \u00a0In addition to that, from the radio station owner\/operator’s perspective, it is expensive to install, expensive to license, expensive to operate, and has no audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hat from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to: HD RADIO™ GOES THE WAY OF THE LASERDISC PLAYER. An interesting take from a non-broadcaster that gets it mostly right.    The premise for HD radio™, as the author states, was to serve two purposes; improve sound quality and add extra programming channels.  I have a few issues with this statement: Regarding the … Continue reading More HD radio news<\/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-3974","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\/3974","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=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11696,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/11696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}