[BC] re; IBOC

[Tom Taggart]

Scott Cason wrote:

"The "mom and pop's" I have come across out in the "sticks" are doing just  
fine without IBOC.  Funny thing, once you get outside the "big city",  
stations seem to be more concerned about what's going on in their  
communities.  They offer more news and local programming.  People listen.  
Stations make (a little) money.  And they are doing it without IBOC.
There's a lesson to learn in there somewhere.  The corporates and  
manufactures are whipping up everyone in to a frenzy over IBOC, but the  
smaller stations keep chugging along with their 30 year old transmitters  
and 20 year old studios."

Entirely true! Still have a 1974 transmitter and 2 studios built 1983~1984  
when we built the station from ground up. Control room built in 1983 with  
an Autogram 8 channel, Optimod 8100 & 2.5 K.  We used a System 90 to run  
AC music on tape off of 4 ARS-1000's.  The ARS-1000's are in storage, the  
System 90 in its grave, while the Autogram was moved to the new production  
studio in 1984 (where it still resides but is getting replaced this  
year).  Studios also due to be replaced this summer, well, freshened up.   
Looking at new wallpaper today, our original secretary (from 1983  
sign-on), --now the sales manager, thinks she has a client who will trade  
everything.

Harris 2.5 K replaced in '88 with a Harris 10K, (Class A to B-1); 8100  
sold to buy an Omnia 3; present console is an Auditronics 2500; the 2.5 K  
is somewhere in north-central Indiana now. Second station built in 2000  
with a 1974 2.5H & MX-15 (now Continental 802A).  Our landlord for that  
tower site says all his colleagues at the plant are tuning it in since we  
went classic rock last year.

We do dozens of remotes, sometimes three a day, like this weekend.  Most  
tied in with community fundraisers (such as A.Cancer Society's Relay for  
life); or the dozens of volunteer fire dept. fairs, & community  
festivals.  Play-by play guys meeting as I write to hammer out this fall's  
H.S. FB games (probably 14 or 15 total, we cover six schools).  Did coats  
for kids last year with some thirty different store locations for our  
barrels. We're a suburban station, but our local sales figures run near  
the top half in the Miller-Kaplan of our nearby 15 station rated market.

IBOC? We don't need no stinking IBOC!

-- 
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/