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WSHU upgrades sound quality broadcasting in High Definition
Elizabeth Robertson
Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: News
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The small house located in north lot is home to WSHU, a national public radio station, which recently started broadcasting in high definition (HD).
"Sacred Heart University's national public radio station, WSHU, has launched its cutting-edge high definition radio broadcasting service, bringing near CD-quality, digitally encoded music, news and talk to the airwaves," said the Sacred Heart press release.
With the HD technology, the sound of the broadcast is much sharper thus eliminating all the static and interference that was often picked up before.
High definition radio technology brings AM frequency broadcasts up to the level of analog FM sound quality.
"The elimination of static and power line noise from AM radio reception is one of the prime benefits of utilizing High Definition technology to broadcast AM radio programming," said the press release.
WSHU broadcasts in both AM and FM frequencies.
The FM station "features the existing NPR News and classical music programming" while the AM station "consists of all news and talk programming from WSHU's sister station WSHU-AM," said the press release.
According to George Lombardi, the general manager of WSHU, there are three advantages to broadcasting in HD.
"It eliminates the standard hissing and popping that one hears on standard FM radio," said Lombardi.
"The second is the ability to have multiple channels on the same transmitter, reflected in our plan to transmit our classical music stream and our talk and information stream simultaneously."
It is because of this capability that the radio station is able to broadcast in both AM and FM frequencies.
"The third advantage is the ability to transmit metadata, which includes our call letters, the title of the song that is currently playing or references on how to obtain more information about news that is being broadcast," said Lombardi.
Senior Mathew Carignan periodically listens to the radio station.
"The station is good to listen to when I do homework," said Carignan. "I've only listen to it a couple of times, so I don't know if I listen to it enough to notice that it's in HD now."
Graduate student Laurie Ladouceur said, I think it's great that they upgraded to HD, hopefully more people will start listening.
"I know a woman at work who lives near Sacred Heart and she listens to it all the time," said Ladouceur.
Ladouceur has not listened to this radio station.
"I rarely tune in to those small local radio shows because of the sound quality, so maybe this improvement will make people listen more," said Ladouceur.
The WSHU broadcast reaches much of Fairfield county, and can be heard on 91.1 AM and FM.
"Sacred Heart University's national public radio station, WSHU, has launched its cutting-edge high definition radio broadcasting service, bringing near CD-quality, digitally encoded music, news and talk to the airwaves," said the Sacred Heart press release.
With the HD technology, the sound of the broadcast is much sharper thus eliminating all the static and interference that was often picked up before.
High definition radio technology brings AM frequency broadcasts up to the level of analog FM sound quality.
"The elimination of static and power line noise from AM radio reception is one of the prime benefits of utilizing High Definition technology to broadcast AM radio programming," said the press release.
WSHU broadcasts in both AM and FM frequencies.
The FM station "features the existing NPR News and classical music programming" while the AM station "consists of all news and talk programming from WSHU's sister station WSHU-AM," said the press release.
According to George Lombardi, the general manager of WSHU, there are three advantages to broadcasting in HD.
"It eliminates the standard hissing and popping that one hears on standard FM radio," said Lombardi.
"The second is the ability to have multiple channels on the same transmitter, reflected in our plan to transmit our classical music stream and our talk and information stream simultaneously."
It is because of this capability that the radio station is able to broadcast in both AM and FM frequencies.
"The third advantage is the ability to transmit metadata, which includes our call letters, the title of the song that is currently playing or references on how to obtain more information about news that is being broadcast," said Lombardi.
Senior Mathew Carignan periodically listens to the radio station.
"The station is good to listen to when I do homework," said Carignan. "I've only listen to it a couple of times, so I don't know if I listen to it enough to notice that it's in HD now."
Graduate student Laurie Ladouceur said, I think it's great that they upgraded to HD, hopefully more people will start listening.
"I know a woman at work who lives near Sacred Heart and she listens to it all the time," said Ladouceur.
Ladouceur has not listened to this radio station.
"I rarely tune in to those small local radio shows because of the sound quality, so maybe this improvement will make people listen more," said Ladouceur.
The WSHU broadcast reaches much of Fairfield county, and can be heard on 91.1 AM and FM.
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