James Delahunty
25 Mar 2007 14:01
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given the green light to HD radio. HD Radio, which is seen as the savior of terrestrial broadcasting, offers radio stations the chance to broadcast more streams of higher quality digital programming. The technology is said to be superior to Satellite Radio. Some stations have been broadcasting in HD already with permission from the FCC.
HD radio enables radio stations to divide their spectrum into 5 or more streams, an improvement which supporters of the technology claims will boost diversity of content on radio. This move may also bring the proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio even closer as both companies can add HD Radio to their list of the existing competition that a combined company would face.
Source:
Engadget