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iBiquity Says 1,200 Broadcasters in 2006
iBiquity, developers of the HD Radio technology, released their year-in-review statistics: They say 624 stations now broadcast digital AM or FM, with 70 stations offering multicasting. (I found about seven in the Seattle market alone.) They note that $200 million will be spend through in-house advertising by the HD Digital Radio Alliance, a group of broadcasters. Testing of HD Radio is now underway in countries around the world.
The significant remaining elephant in the room that's not mentioned? The failure for the radio industry to figure out how to identify HD2 and subsequent FM digital-only channels in a tuner. Yesterday, Ross Oasis had this screed against dilly-dallying posted at Radio Ink.
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