[BC] NAB SMART

[Jerry Mathis]

I hope they're (the NAB) putting at least the same amount of fervor into
combating the latest lunacy from the enviro wacko crowd, which is the
inquiry into birds flying into towers.

It doesn't sound to me like the NAB has changed much at all. Still the same
ol' same ol'.

Jerry Mathis


On 12/5/06, Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> ------ At 10:38 AM 12/5/2006, Mark Humphrey wrote: -------
>
> >He laments the fact that today's young people don't feel the same
> >excitement about careers in radio as those of us who got into the
> >business 30 or 40 years ago. "We need to have people [in their teens
> >and early-20s] have those same special radio experiences 55-year-olds
> >had when they were that age that drove them [into the business]," he
> >comments.
>
> I wonder how someone with no background in radio could understand the
> force that drove most of us into the business. Those conditions no
> longer exist.
>
> >Another priority is to be as aggressive as possible in getting the FCC
> >to move forward on some issues. Dr. Rehr: "We don't have digital AM
> >finalized [because] they still think HD is experimental. It's not. We
> >need to finalize the rules. People shouldn't have to wait years and
> >years to run their business."
>
> Does he really believe AM IBUZ is ready for prime time? If so, why
> isn't he putting the full weight of the NAB into getting nighttime
> operation approved. If it's technically ready to go, let's get going.
> There's a great future for AM with adjacent channel interference and
> intentional interference by people experimenting on commercial
> frequencies.
>
> >"We also have to accelerate HD digital radio advancement. We've made
> >that the technological forward issue for the business and absolutely
> >have to make it successful."
>
> Sounds to me as though he's just been to a kegger.
>
> Rich
>
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JM