[BC] All Sports Stations

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:45 PM 5/7/2008, WBRadiolists at aol.com wrote: -------

>Seriously, though, I am aware of a 5k regional AM that is making IBUZ work...
>for them. They are in the minority, for sure, and I don't know HOW well it's
>working, just that it seems to be "holding its own". (I haven't heard much
>about their HD operations in some time, now.) They did a decent job 
>of educating
>their listeners and making radios available. How long they will be able to
>sustain the whole thing will be an interesting thing to watch.

How does one determine if AM IBUZ is "working?" There aren't 
secondaries that "allegedly" offer alternatives. With the quality of 
receivers being what it is one can't say it's an increase in in 
quality that's driving the multitudes to buy receivers. Can this 
station point to increased revenue directly attributable to IBUZ?

I'm in Providence, RI, for a few days. I stopped at the Apple store 
and saw the awesome new iSonic with the Rube Goldberg tagging 
feature. I set it to scan for IBUZ stations. That was several hours 
ago. I bet it's still searching. It found zero stations while I 
watched. It's a $500 radio. Needless to say it was on display only 
because it displays iPod data and controls it when docked.

Since there's no additional programming offered, why would an AM 
station give radios to listeners?

Rich