[BC] GE Superadio III vs. IBOC hash

[Steve Ordinetz]

Dana wrote:

> The bottom line is this:
>
> MILLIONS of AM stereo receivers were and are still in the field NOW! AM
> stereo
> was easy and cheap to impliment. YET..the AM broadcasters STILL managed to
> SCREW IT UP BIG TIME!

How did the AM broadcasters "screw it up"?  In the mid-late 80s I heard
several stations promote it quite heavily.  Fact is, it was too little too
late...by the time one standard got settled on, music on AM was dead.  No
one cared...AM had a rep as a lo-fi, static-plagued medium and few if any
listeners were about to change their minds.  As someone else noted,
politics were a big factor here...had the FCC implemented ONE standard in
the mid-late 70s it may have delayed the decline of AM, but even back then
the writing was on the wall....stereo wasn't gonna save it.