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Wyoming Public Radio Goes HD
Wyoming Public Radio pushing HD Radio signals on 14 primary transmitters: The funding for this project included $828,000 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has a heavy interest in subsidizing the potential for new programming through multicasting, and $244,000 from the state legislature. The transmitters were rebuilt over two summers--they are apparently hard to reach in winter! Multicasting starts next year with HD Classical Channel statewide, with tests in Laramie and Cheyenne. The release notes that this may be the first satellite-delivered statewide digital radio. Very interesting hybrid. Another $150,000 will be required to make this work.
A note on the press release's mention that HD stands for Hybrid Digital. It doesn't. HD Radio is a trademark that doesn't mean anything, per se. It's just a phrase meant to evoke something. Hybrid digital doesn't really describe digital AM/FM, nor does high definition. It's...digital.
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