Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news

[david goren <shortwaveology@xxxxxxx>]

On Jan 9, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David, I surmise that stations aren't interested in doing that unless
> a gun were held to their heads.
> 
> SCA is different - it doesn't directly compete with the principal
> station's programming.

There are a couple of HD-2's in NYC that are ethnic and wildly different from the main channel. There's a South Indian format, and a Carribean Gospel one last time I checked. Mostly, though the HD-2 format is a slight variant of the main format.
> 
> Look at the situation up in Buffalo - Entercom is the dominant player,
> and parks ESPN on its 50 kW WWKB transmitter at the same time it
> operates its own locally-originated sports format on 5 kW WGR.  You'd
> think the squandered opportunity to put a meaningful format on WWKB
> would annoy shareholders, but Entercom is loath to sell the 1520 WWKB
> frequency as it would introduce a new competitor or strengthen an
> existing one.
> 
> As our colleague Mr. Figliozzi would point out, this points out a
> significant flaw in our commercial radio licensing model - the fact
> that spectrum space is a publicly owned asset, and should be managed
> to maximize the public good, is lost on the FCC and the rest of our
> government
> 
> RC
> 
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:17 AM, David Goren <shortwaveology@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is there a prohibition for stations to lease their HD-2 and HD-3 in a manner similar to FM subcarrier stations? Otherwise, that could be a model.
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