Deep TRacks is classic album rock.  By that, I mean, it plays cuts from 
classic rock albums, those tracks that weren't necessarily top 40 hits in 
their day.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: HD radio


> Tom(s),
> If you have an HD receiver, what you hear on the primary channel is
> what you have heard all along, allbeit in better quality.  My
> favorite station, WDRV 97.1 is sixties and seventies, a higher amount
> of music than some formats and clumps of commercials, less than
> some.  Their HD2 is "deep tracks" and I'm not quite sure what that
> means.  I have an HD radio at the office but not quite enough signal
> strength to hear the secondary channels on most downtown Chicago FM
> stations.  My office building is very FM resistant.  I would guess
> that probably ninety percent of Chicago FM is HD.  WBBM, our CBGS At
> 07:36 PM 7/30/2011, you wrote:
>>Hi, all.
>>
>>I am not sure if this will be considered by some to be "off topic", but 
>>last
>>evening, I heard something on an FM broadcast station that has confirmed 
>>my
>>long-standing suspicions about where commercial FM radio is going today.
>>
>>I simply thought it might be of interest to others.
>>
>>By way of introduction, I have noticed that the quality of many normal
>>non-HD FM stations seems to have deteriorated over the past few years,
>>especially in larger metropolitan areas.  By declining quality, I mean 
>>more
>>commercials, less music, and what seems to be a much less diverse 
>>play-list.
>>
>>My theory had always been that normal non-HD FM stations were simply being
>>operated for those who hadn't yet made the switch to HD radio, as kind of 
>>a
>>necessary evil.  It just seemed to me that more resources and efforts were
>>being put into HD stations, so as to come up with a better-quality and 
>>more
>>appealing product.
>>
>>As many of you may know, I am currently traveling throughout the east 
>>coast,
>>and am now spending some time with my wife's mother in the Trenton, New
>>Jersey area.
>>
>>Last night, I was listening to W O G L--98.1 FM in Philadelphia.  In the
>>past, that station had been an excellent oldies station, with what I think
>>had been very good ratings.
>>
>>Now, the station has more of a "classic hits" format, with lots of talk,
>>commercials, and other stuff between the music.
>>
>>Anyway, shortly before the top of an hour, the station ID was played,
>>followed by a message that said something like this:  "If you want more
>>music, more oldies from the 60's and 70's, and more home-town DJ's, tune 
>>to
>>W O G L HD1".
>>
>>To me, this indicated, at least in this case, that the HD option was 
>>clearly
>>being promoted over the normal non-HD programming.
>>
>>Am I onto something here, or totally "off base"?
>>
>>And, please:  to those in the broadcast business (like Lou )WA3MIX), I 
>>mean
>>no offense whatsoever by these observations.
>>
>>HD radio has not yet arrived in the part of semi-rural west-central lower
>>Michigan where I currently live, but if I lived in a bigger metro area, I
>>have the feeling that HD radios would quickly be added to my wish list.
>>
>>73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ