Thursday, February 01, 2007

HD Radio: More Needed To Match Satellite

HD radio experiments good, but...
More needed to match satellite variety, buzz
January 31, 2007, By JOHN SMYNTEK, DETROIT FREE PRESS

Let’s give Greater Media —owners of Detroit’s WRIF-FM (101.1), WCSX-FM (94.7) and WMGC-FM (105.1) —credit for trying to do something to get some buzz going about HD radio.
Over the past two weekends, first the main WRIF signal and the next weekend the main WCSX lineup was replaced by the station’s HD channels. WRIF's RIFF2 plays an eclectic mix of local artists, alternative, hip-hop, punk and indie-rock; WCSX’s Deep Trax plays lesser heard rock gems.
Of course to hear them all the time, you need to buy an HD receiver and despite recent price cuts, they’re still not cheap. Or particularly plentiful. And not standard issue for cars, which is key to it prospering down the line...read more: here