"IBOCcrock" wrote in message
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On Feb 7, 10:39 am, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"IBOCcrock" wrote in message

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"CLEAR CHANNEL PULLS THE PLUG ON SOME HD RADIO STATIONS"

"After conducting a survey of 340 HD2 stations to determine their
programming needs, the folks at Clear Channel have dumped a number of
their HD 'Format Lab' stations due to a lack of demand."

http://talentfilter.blogspot.com/200...pulls-plug-on-...

Yupper - there she goes!

Actually, no stations ceased HD broadcasting; a few have had different
formats put on the HD2 channels based on listener response.

There are no "Format Lab" stations.

The "Format Lab" is a development center in San Antonio where different
concepts are streamed and the ones with the most hits and longest
listening
spans get put on actual radio stations. The ones that don't attract
interest
are nuked and other ideas tried; it's an ongoing process. The idea is to
create new content for HD that has not been found on radio up till now.

http://www.clearchannelmusic.com/formatlab/

As I said, the format lab tests "what if" formats for possible use on
terrestrial radio. They evaluate the formats by hits and length of each hit
and return hits from the same user. The formats that don't work are
periodically flushed and new ones are developed and tried.

The nature and number of the formats on the Format Lab page has nothing to
do with the operation of the terrestrial stations, analog or otherwise, run
by Clear Channel.

STUPID ****ER!

The truth hurts, huh?