A lot like music itself, some types of technology are more interesting because they never quite caught on with the masses. Consider HD radio: Unlike its television counterpart, adopted almost straightaway by both manufacturers and viewers, HD radio is still struggling to find its footing. In theory, it’s brilliant: HD technology allows each station to carry a handful of subchannels alongside the flagship station that goes out over the FM airwaves – most often (but not always) canned, commercial-free stations tightly organized around a theme, similar to a lot of satellite-radio programming.
Since I’ve already been thinking about Houston radio a lot this week, I couldn’t help but wonder what might be streaming on the local HD stations. This was complicated somewhat because I do not own an HD radio, so instead I started digging on the Internet. Not long afterward, I started to…
