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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...n-some-hd.html

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.


So they're just hoping people will find these stations by osmosis, or
what?
People find them the same way they find any web stream "station."
Most people use Shoutcast. Have you ever been there? Be sure you're
sitting down...

www.shoutcast.com

The shoutcast audience in any US metro area is not even large enough to
qualify for inclusion in the radio ratings.



There's no reason for them to be included in your so called "ratings"
which measure nothing but a dying medium's last gasp. Shoutcast (and
Icecast, Live 365, etc.) are where the top dollar demos are going for
good music radio and NPR/CommunityRadio. There is no reason to subject
one's self to the torture that is commercial radio in the 21st century.
It is painful to listen to sonically (and HD sounds worse on AM) and
only a complete loser would voluntarily absorb the content.