On Thu, 1/9/14, David Goren <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a prohibition for stations > to lease their HD-2 and HD-3 in a manner similar to FM > subcarrier stations? Otherwise, that could be a model.
I don't believe there is an FCC regulation that would deny this possibility, which means it is more flexible than second-channel audio. However, a station will have license expenses with iBiquity, the licensed owner of the technology. For sure you'd have issues of annual costs/fees for technology licensing, which I believe is 3 % of the incremental net annual revenue on digital content. Here in Iowa, our statewide public radio network, Iowa Public Radio, has three programming streams. They've started to use the HD-2 channel on some of the transmitters to send a second stream instead of investing in an entirely different frequency. I personally would only use digital AM/FM if I am GIVEN a receiver, as otherwise I wouldn't spend the money. Kevin Anderson Dubuque, Iowa _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
