[BC] Re: HD Receiver returns

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:10 PM 2/16/2007, Jerry Mathis wrote: -------

>I've read on another list that, in an interview, Ibiquity CEO Bob Stubel has
>said that full-blown IBOC will probably not happen, stating that the
>Government has no incentive to end analog broadcasting. If true, the only
>advantage IBOC will give stations is the ability to broadcast more than one
>audio channel, for however long IBOC lasts.

It's easy to blame the FCC but there's clearly no significant 
consumer interest. That'll make replacing hundreds of millions of 
analog radios virtually impossible. I think they realize what an 
uproar ending analog would cause. My experience this week with 
secondaries indicates to me even the largest companies don't care 
about additional channels. This is now day 2 of silence on a station 
in Enfield, CT. The HD-2 is running pumping out titles and artists 
but no audio.

With no hope of pure digital operation the digital will be saddled 
with crippling low power in perpetuity. Combine that with crippling 
blandness in programming and the duck is dead.

Rich