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www.rwonline.com, Jerry Smith compares 970 WFLA HD failings to Kahn advantages. He notes Orlando 950 and 990 lost Tampa - Sarasota audience to WFLA slop. Team HD's pious nonsense re 'you must not listen to out of contour stations' has at last worn thin. Losing audience displeases broadcasters.
Avaricious schemes promoted with moralistic fables ooze irony. HD is no exception. Smith illustrates HD's jamming power is woefully inversely proportional to its overblown non-ability to overcome interference.
Pre-HD, WFLA overrode Tampa Trolley noise. Kahn gets through. HD doesn't. Wasn't HD supposed to penetrate areas 'obsolete' AM couldn't? Another false tale it seems. Surprising? No. ClaqBOC's parsonical shifting stories and hostility to routine questions long ago belied HD's concealed faults.
Smith notes industry concern re HD's 'artifact' problems, suggesting IT whiz-kinderen first learn about that which they gratuitously seek to reinvent.
Smith notes Wall St. backers will still reflexively blat the iBLOC kazoo while astute broadcasters choose superior alternatives.
Ironically HD is increasingly seen as long obsolete, superseded by worthy innovations. Comparing 'obsolete AM' to the horse and buggy is further irony. AM is viewed as bedrock augmented by sound innovation. This squarely qualifies HD as Radio's Edsel.
Smith's article along with others and letters to the editor indicate HD is in trouble on all fronts.
Of interest to DX'ers, Smith reveals the obvious truth which none dare speak - nighttime HD is DOA.
Smiths' write-up is signifigant by its presence. For quite some time, trade pubs dared not criticize almighty ClaqBOC. Articles such as Smith's are increasingly frequent. This is good news for the industry, DX'ers, and radio lovers in general. Bad news for conniving oleaginous fecalithic greaseballs who seek to profit by destroying that for which they've no talent.
=Z.=
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Managreaseball Key, FL
BT
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