Besides being named one of the top technology duds of this decade by CNET, there's more bad news for HD radio today: Pirate stations aren't touching the technology.An All The Excess! spot check of 147 pirate radio stations currently operating illegally in the New York City area turned up no stations broadcasting HD radio.
Interestingly, one Gotham pirate station which had recently changed format from Caribbean music to Spanish oldies claimed that the Caribbean music had been moved to its HD2 channel, when in actuality there was no HD signal even on the main channel. Billboards promoting the availability of the old format on HD2 were still up at this writing, and account executives for the pirate station were still using the HD2 story on the street, we're told. A call to the station's general manager was not returned; we were told he was at group manager's meetings and would address the issue on his return.
