[BC] RAIN report: HD Radio's Creative Thinking

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:26 AM 10/10/2005, Robert Meuser wrote: -------

>That all sounds nice and I fully understand that others whom I 
>respect on the committee agree with you. On the other hand there are 
>fewer listeners and receivers of IBOC now than there were viewers of 
>CBS sequential color when the FCC reversed itself in favor of NTSC. 
>The technical argument is weak.

I think the following says it all:

>>Worst is that the receiver industry simply isn't interested in 
>>changing.  We know the broadcasters are stuck with the current 
>>scheme, if they want any listeners on multicast channels for the 
>>next few years, so by the time you can walk into Best Buy and find 
>>a "new, creative" channel scheme radio, the current system will be 
>>thoroughly and completely a part of the landscape.

Rich