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Indie 88.1 Plans Special HD Feed For Music Festival
The station is putting a separate signal on its HD feed highlighting the bands playing at the NXNE Music Festival that takes place in mid-June. Or you can hear it online.
This isn't exactly my musical taste, but I do congratulate them for using their extra signal space for something other than just a rebroadcast of an AM or some other existing FM outlet.
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This isn't exactly my musical taste, but I do congratulate them for using their extra signal space for something other than just a rebroadcast of an AM...
UH...What AM? & I doubt they have any desire to HD their Rock 95 since it's not Toronto. It's Barrie area.
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I think you misread me. I wasn't specifically referring to Indie88. I meant most stations, which simply use their HD capacity to rebroadcast an existing AM signal in their chain on one of their subcarriers, like AM 640 on 95.3 or CFRB on what I believe is 99.9.
It makes perfect sense to do this, I suppose, especially with all the barriers there are to hearing AM clearly in this built-up, electrically noisy city. But I think it's refreshing when a company tries something different and new on HD - like an original format you can't hear anywhere else, which is probably the only way to really attract new listeners to its capabilities. Making it profitable is another story.
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I think you misread me. I wasn't specifically referring to Indie88. I meant most stations, which simply use their HD capacity to rebroadcast an existing AM signal in their chain on one of their subcarriers, like AM 640 on 95.3 or CFRB on what I believe is 99.9.
It makes perfect sense to do this, I suppose, especially with all the barriers there are to hearing AM clearly in this built-up, electrically noisy city. But I think it's refreshing when a company tries something different and new on HD - like an original format you can't hear anywhere else, which is probably the only way to really attract new listeners to its capabilities. Making it profitable is another story.
Great, but my point is, due to not owning an AM station, there's more room to experiment.
I'm pretty sure if they did own an AM they'd also have it up and running on the HD...
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I would be surprised if they didn't do that. But I'll be curious if we ever find out how many ears this unique format on their subcarrier attracts.
If I recall, Indie88 has been very good about experimenting with something different on its HD signals. Other stations in the market not so much. I wish they would all give it a consistent try and see if any of them find an audience.
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