[BC] Re: HD Receiver returns

[Gary Glaenzer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] Re: HD Receiver returns


> ------ 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

let's face it, the IBUZ pimps hoped for an FCC mandate for a switch-over to
IBUZ, guaranteeing them a captive market for their over-priced crap

kind of a case of  'if you pimp it hard enough and then build it, the money
will come rolling in'