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SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 Season going strong Lawrence County concert series doing better this year page ei MICHEL LAUZIERE 03 MOTLEY FOOL: Can you name that company? msecs An edition of the HoosierTimes LEADING INDICATORS Consumer prices Producer prices Retail sales June 2008 $384 2 billion 0.1 June 2008 1.1 1 jf1' June 2008 1817,1982100 1.8 SOUBU BUREAU Of LABOR STAIlijTICS SOURCE BUBEAU Of STATISTICS SOURU DEPARTMENT Of ocal FRIO MCGHU I MRAiT'MfS Adam Schwartz, producer at WFIU, looks at some of the HD radios on display in radio station's lobby. WFIU switches to HD Radio HD, for radio: Doesn't mean high definition as it does with television, but is a trademarked brand name of iBiquity Digital Corp. The HD in HD Radio stands for an upgrade in technology, according to a spokesperson for iBiquity Digital Corp Stations converting to HD Radio after July 1, 2008, must purchase the technology from iBiquity Digital at a cost of between $15,000 and $25,000 for a main channel licensing fee. Stations that purchased their license prior to this date paid a fee of $5,000. More than 1,700 radio stations have made the switch to HD Radio, with more than 800 new multicast channels.

HD Radio can carry two music streams and three talk radio streams on one frequency before sound quality begins to suffer, Ford Motor Co. announced that it would carry HD Radio in its Lincoln and Mercury vehicles, Joining BMW and Volvo, who already offer the technology. MP3: Is a compression format that reduces the size of a CD file to roughly a tenth its normal size. This is made possible because the compression reduces the accuracy of certain parts of sound that are deemed beyond the auditory range of most people. MP3 sound quality is at or near CD quality, and requires software to decompress the file before it can be played.

WAV file format: In its most common form, it is an uncompressed audio file and is the standard audio file format for CDs. containing two channels of 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits per second. WFIU Web site: www wfiu org iBiquity Web site: www ibiquity comhd radio. From Hoosier Tim reports James Whitlatch makes top super lawyers list BLOOMINGTON James L. Whitlatch of Bunger Robertson was named as one of 2008 Indiana Super Lawyers as selected by his peers, Law Politics and the publishers of Indianapolis Monthly, a selection limited to only 5 percent of lawyers in the state.

Whitlatch was one of 24 Indiana lawyers selected in the specialty of Health Care Law and one of five Bunger 8c Robertson attorneys honored. Employment Plus welcomes Amber Fern as coordinator Employment Plus welcomes Amber Fern to the corporate office as the partnership development coordinator. Fern recently relocated to Bloomington from southern Illinois, where she worked as marketing director for a regional shopping center. As partnership development coordinator, she assists the Employment Plus branches in all aspects of the sales process, including developing new partnerships, as well as expanding current ones. Employment Plus operates at 39 locations in six states, including Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey and Florida.

Employment Plus was founded in Bloomington in 1993. For more, go to www.employmentplus.com. Matt Lucas joins Family Service Association BLOOMINGTON Family Service Association of Monroe County announces that Matt Lucas is the new program director for Family Service Associations Oak Tree Counseling program. Lucas earned a masters degree, with an emphasis on marriage, family and child therapy from the Sacramento Gateway campus of the University of Phoenix. Before relocating to Bloomington from Sacramento, his counseling experience included working with foster youth and their families, anger management groups and with a court-ordered young adult sex offender group.

In addition to providing individual, couple and group counseling services to children and families, Lucas will work to increase awareness about the affordable counseling services that Oak Tree Counseling can provide. Lucas will work out of the FSA offices at 120 W. Seventh Suite 104, or call Lucas at 812-339-1551. John Shelton, engineer at WFIU, looks at the receivers where the radio signals for the station come in. By Fred McGhee II fmcgheeheraldt.com BLOOMINGTON Indiana Universitys radio station, WFIU, has made to the switch to new technology by converting to HD Radio.

By going to HD Radio, WFIU will be able to bring a clearer, crisper sound and add more variety to its programming, all while using the same amount of bandwidth. This will allow us to provide a more diverse programming base, said Christina Kuzmych, station manager at WFIU. We can now offer programs that we were not able to offer before." The new technology will not replace traditional radio broadcasting: it will be offered alongside existing analog signals. Consumers not interested in making the switch do not have to worry about their stereo receivers becoming obsolete, as they will still be able to pick up traditional FMAM radio signals. In order to receive HD Radio, consumers will need to purchase a HD Radio receiver to accept, decompress and broadcast the signals.

Once listeners purchase the receiver, there are no additional fees, unlike satellite radio, where consumers pay annual subscription fees. With HD Radio, FM signals have CD quality, while AM signals have FM-signal-sound quality. This is possible because HD Radio signals are digitized, which allows the signal to be compressed, much like an file. The HD Radaio signal is similar to a compressed WAV file used on CDs. This also allows an HD Radio signal to carry more data.

This data is then beamed down to HD Radio receivers. The compression allows HD Radio wireless signals to carry text information Kuzmych, WFIUs station manager since 1990, hopes to have a set program schedule in place for both program streams by mid-August, before students return for the fall semester. HD Radio should not be confused with HDTV, the HD in HD Radio does not stand for "high definition, as most people think, and is a completely different type of technology. HD Radio, developed and licensed by iBiquity Digital is a trademarked brand name and not a description. Prices for HD Radio receivers range from S99-S249.

Sales for the new technology' have been slow. Im not really concerned with the slow industry take off for the technology," Kuzmych said. People want more diversity. Its a good investment." song and artist titles, weather and traffic alerts which is scrolled across HD Radio receiver screens. "We are providing an opportunity for people to come down to the station to see and try out an HD Radio receiver." Kuzmych said.

Online listeners can test it out on the Web site." Along with improved sound quality, WFIU will broadcast two HD Radio program streams on one FM frequency, 103.7, that will counter each other in programming. The HD Radio receiver will indicate hether a station is broadcasting multiple programs on that frequency, allowing the listener to choose which program to listen to (103.7-1 or 103.7-2) While one HD Radio program stream plays talk, there will be music on the other, Kuzmych said. THERE ARE MORE HD RADIO INNOVATIONS ON THE WAY, INCLUDING: Surround-sound. Real-time traffic reports broadcast by local stations and visually displayed on a vehicle's navigation system. Store-and-replay: This feature allows listeners to rewind a song or record an entire program to play back later.

On demand capabilities will give listeners instant access to news and information. Buy button is an interactive device for e-commerce, allowing for instant purchases of everything from concert tickets to advertised products.