[BC] It's not just Engineers....

[DHultsman5 at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/2/2008 3:12:34 PM Central Daylight Time, 
dpuopolo at usa.net writes:

> Oh, one more thing-did you see the newest 'crutch' for HD? Congress wants 
> XM
> and Sirius to have to build it in to their recievers.  Let's see, the
> satellite band is at 2 gHz and radio at and below 100 mHz. BOY, I can see
> commonalities in those radios! Not to mention the fact that IBOC royalties
> would need to be paid for EVERY XM radio!  I can easily see the consumer 
> cost
> of the satellite receivers more then DOUBLING if this goes through!
> 

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I doubt if IBQUITY will get paid royalities for each radio.  I cannot see the 
FCC legislating something that would require them to do that when they could 
have imposed a drop dead date for analog or required that all AM/FM radios had 
to have IBOC sections by 2010.

We will all see.

Dave


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