KUER 90.1 digital subchannels

[Terry]

I was just getting ready to post that KUER’s subchannels have been absent for a month, when suddenly they’ve reappeared this morning.

I really like being able to hear the news 24 hours a day on BBC World Service, and it’s nice to have a classical music alternative for when KBYU is airing something I’m not interested in.

Now, when is the FCC going to allow higher power digital signals? Or go all-digital as some European countries have already done.

[CAwasinNJ]

The digital power levels we have now are already a compromise and unpopular in some circles.  I haven't heard anything about increasing their power for a long time.  It might help to visualize just how tightly the digital signals are crammed into the band.  This is a picture showing the signals of KHTB, KDUT, KSL-FM, KLO, and KRSP.  The rectangular things are the digital signals.

As for mandating going all-digital, there are at least two issues.  One, with so many analog radios out there that I don't see that happening anytime soon.  The switch to digital TV was different.  There the majority of consumers didn't need to do anything since their existing sets were connected to cable/satellite/fiber/etc.  For those that used OTA adding a converter box was a minor inconvenience.  In a radio world getting brand new radios or retrofitting older ones with converter boxes isn't really a viable option.  Two, if we tried to add a digital simulcast in another band as some have suggested, where would we find the spectrum?

[kenglish]

I wonder if KRCL will ever get their HD subchannels back on the air.
I think they carried World Radio Network years ago.

[newsmark]

This morning, I noticed KUER had an HD4.

It’s a Spanish network, but my Spanish is not good enough to pick out a title.

[CAwasinNJ]

Jun 2, 2023 18:48:06 GMT -6 newsmark said:

This morning, I noticed KUER had an HD4.

It’s a Spanish network, but my Spanish is not good enough to pick out a title.

Discussion of that is here.