[BC] Interest in/Availibility of HD gear

[Mike McCarthy]

Hi Kent, 

You're making an asusmption that the stations can be received in areas 
which they enjoy(ed) listership.

In all of the cases you cite as doomsday scenarios which radio has 
outlived, there has not been an assult on the ability to receive the 
station's signals. Only competing non-interferring services and 
products.  With HD radio, and primarily on AM, there is an on-channel 
interference matter which can not be overcome.  Depending on the 
problem station's pattern, the S/N degradation is 20dB at the impacted 
station's protected .5mV contour.

FCC won't do anything because that's a subjective IX scenario...which 
we all know is pure dodging the bullet BS.

AM radio as we know it is at risk of loosing great deals of listening 
geography short term to the hash. How that impacts long term CUME 
after the migration from hybrid to HD only is anyone's guess at this 
time.  It's only a matter of time before all the big guns get hammered 
on all sides when all the adjacent stations light up and take them out.

MM

> THAT, my friend, is the point that most people seem to be missing. 
> 
> Everyone seems to be blinded by satellite ** THE SKY IS FALLING THE 
SKY 
> IS FALLING**  But few seem to understand what has happened in the 
past 
> and how it relates to what is going on now.
> 
> If people would get their wits together, keep their heads straight 
more 
> understanding might happen.
> 
> Radio was dead when TV came.
> Radio was dead when 8 tracks came.
> Radio was dead when Cassettes came.
> Radio was dead when CDs came... and so on.  Radio is still here.  
> Different?  Yes but still here.
> 
> 
> 
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