November 9th, 2008 
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I was listening to WYNE yesterday morning/afternoon and heard the station promoting the fact that it broadcasts in digital stereo with HD technology and on the Internet with a stream at wyne.mercyhurst.edu.
HD radio is hybrid digital broadcasting. On the FM side, stations can add additional programming on subchannels. However, you will need to buy a HD radio hear the difference. Of course, you can still listen to the broadcast on your good old analog radio. I don’t know if and whether WYNE is still broadcasting in AM stereo (may not work well with the HD equipment). More information here: http://www.hdradio.com.
If this is true, then WYNE 1530 is the first station in Erie area (although it originates from North East) to broadcast in HD.
Anyone know what happened to the CBS broadcast on Sunday during the Steelers game? The game was in HD until they came back from halftime.
had the same problem on Sunday during the steelers game.
they went to half time and from that point on the game wasn’t in HD and had the side bars on the screen
anyone able to get channels 19.1 or 43.1 out of cleveland..
they been gone since thursday…able to get the other channels
I went for a walk down to the Boston Store yesterday. After an hour’s journey, I came to find that there were 6 EMPTY studios. It just doesn’t make sense to me. Can someone in the know please educate me on how radio continues to exist without people? It was sadly amusing to me that each of the six studios had three microphones each…. for what? What purpose does the presence of microphones in a totally automated radio studio serve?
Could someone in a corporate suit please tell me why radio is continuing to become more and more passive? I grew up in Erie with a radio as my companion and it made me an active member of the Erie audience. How did it become so dreadfully a part of a person’s background noise in an office somewhere meant to be permanently in the shadows?
Another question comes to mind… Does the average radio listener really care that he/she is being duped? I was in front of the Star 104 window when the “Star 104 disc jockey” came on the air to introduce a song, yet I was looking at a completely EMPTY studio.
Can Mr. Warshaw or Mr. Driscoll of Connoisseur Media or Bob Proffitt of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation please tell me how owning so many boats in Erie makes radio better when there is no people involved?
I mean, as a lifelong Erie radio listener… I’m a person, right? How will radio anywhere continue to survive without ME?
Has the “# 1″ TV newsroom in this market become so complacent that they can forsake production value?
I was watching the news teases during prime time programs Thursday and saw a three-story tease with no music bed and no canned open and close. Is this now the industry standard? Tease writing in this market is bad enough, but with no production value, how does one “sale the sizzle”?
Looooooouuuu Baxter, invest in a high quality branding doughnut for your news teases and start driving viewers to the 11 O’clock.
Now for the folks at WICU. When I’m watching E-R and the most dramatic sequence starts to unfold, please don’t dump out to a Kevin McDowell news tease! The man scares me enough but in the middle of my favorite show, come on! Quality kids… let’s work to bring it back to the market. (peace out)