"David" wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:47:14 GMT, "David Eduardo"
wrote:


On FM, most viable top 100 market stations will be HD in a couple of
years.
There are already over 100 HD-2 formats running.

From what I've heard thus far I'm not impressed. Star 98.7 is running
a 250 song '80s playlist, KROCK (''Q-2'') is running heavily censored
Active Rock, maybe 350 songs . Sol Levine has the right idea. Kill
the AM. Right?

Sol shut down 540 because he was legally required to to sell 1650, which he
got "in exchange" in the X-band procedures. He did not shut it down because
he wanted to; he did it because he got something better in exchange.

The current HD-2 channels are just starting, with programming that will
"expand" in phases as more receivers come to the market. Right now, most are
there to prove to the manufacturers that there will be a market.

The fact is, most listeners do not have more than a few hundred favorite
songs in any genre. Several recent surveys have shown that the average
number of songs on an iPod is around 300! When you go beyond that number, in
most formats or genres, you are playing songs that listeners don't really
like, which is hardly a gain.

Calling the limiting of a playlist to songs most people like, as opposed to
songs they don't like, is hardly "censorship." It is more like "common
sense."

The reason Baskin Robbins does not have 1000 flavors is that most people
like the same 8 or 10, and occasionally try one or another in an array of 30
to 40. Same with music.