[BC] HDradio & our digital future

[James Somich]

I live in Cleveland and am only a few miles from the WTAM transmitter. I
check out WJR on my regular trips to Detroit to do engineering. These
stations are both 50kw flame-throwers.

Yes, I am disappointed at what HD Radio does to my analog AM car radio.

Hey, I don't know if HD will catch on or not. It might just be another AMAX,
FMX, or Quad.
I guess we'll see.

CC is investing millions in this concept. I can't believe it is just going
to go away.






On 12/21/06, Glen Kippel <glen.kippel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/21/06, WFIFeng at aol.com <WFIFeng at aol.com> wrote:
> <SNIP!>
>
> But FM and TV did not render the existing AM sets virtually useless. If AM
> > stations decided to "throw the big switch" and go all-digital, all
> analog
> > sets
> > would be instantly rendered useless. There are over 800 million of them
> > out
> > there. That's a *lot* of sets to replace, thus a lot of ticked-off
> people.
> >
> > <SNIP, snip, snippety-snip>
>
>
>
> -----------------
>
> Yeah -- ticked-off enough to just forget the MW band entirely.  (If it
> becomes all digital, it won't be the "AM band" any more.)  They will go
> elesewhere, like internet "radio."
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