[BC] Re: HD Receiver

[Robert Meuser]

No I do not agree, especially in the original context where you compare 
it to the HD roll out. FM was dead in the water until the FCC mandated 
separate programming. FM did have some legs that were hindered by lack 
of receivers in small markets where daytimers extended their hours via 
FM but the industry did too little to grow legs on this alone.

r



Xmitters at aol.com wrote:

>xmitters at aol.com wrote:
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>>FM obviously took off like a 
>>rocket since its introduction thus leaving the naysayers with egg on their 
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>face. 
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>R Meuser wrote:
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>Totally wrong. FM took the better part of thirty years to 'take off.' 
>Many early stations went dark and those who eventually returned to the 
>airwaves did so at a much lower class.
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>R.
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>You totally misinterpreted what I intended, partially my fault in an effort 
>to conserve bandwidth. Obviously FM had a hard time upon initial introduction. 
>My comment was based on a view of the overall picture from FM's introduction 
>up until today. When you view that entire planing horizon, it is not "totally 
>wrong" to say that FM took off like a rocket. Maybe it would have been better 
>to say that FM sat on the launch pad for quite some time, but once the engines 
>fired up, FM took off like a rocket.
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>Do you agree with that?
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>Jeff Glass
>Northern Illinois university
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