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Old February 8th 08, 01:32 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default CLEAR CHANNEL PULLS THE PLUG ON SOME HD RADIO STATIONS

On Feb 7, 4:15*pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"IBOCcrock" wrote in message

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On Feb 7, 10:39?am, "David Eduardo" wrote:





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"CLEAR CHANNEL PULLS THE PLUG ON SOME HD RADIO STATIONS"


"After conducting a survey of 340 HD2 stations to determine their
programming needs, the folks at Clear Channel have dumped a number of
their HD 'Format Lab' stations due to a lack of demand."


http://talentfilter.blogspot.com/200...pulls-plug-on-....


Yupper - there she goes!


Actually, no stations ceased HD broadcasting; a few have had different
formats put on the HD2 channels based on listener response.


There are no "Format Lab" stations.


The "Format Lab" is a development center in San Antonio where different
concepts are streamed and the ones with the most hits and longest
listening
spans get put on actual radio stations. The ones that don't attract
interest
are nuked and other ideas tried; it's an ongoing process. The idea is to
create new content for HD that has not been found on radio up till now.


"Clear Channel's murky future"

"Sad because eliminating new hires (including sellers), failing to
replace those who leave, stopping all investment in the future, and
halting all advertising and research is the equivalent of saying that
necessity requires us to strangle the goose that lays the golden eggs,
even as the goose is up for sale."

Nice bluff, Eduardo!

That still does not change the fact that no HD channels or operations have
been eliminated, or "dumped" as you eloquently said, at Clear, except by
sale of stations.- Hide quoted text -

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And it turns out that Jimmy Hoffa is still alive, except his heart no
longer beats and his soft tissues have decomposed.