[BC] Nighttime IBOC hash gets local press

[R A Meuser]

Maybe that PD does not yet realize he is being shut out of market 18 at 
night. The station is rated #6 there.




Mark Humphrey wrote:
> WABC's PD dismisses his audience in the Poconos, claiming that it's an
> "unrated" market.  However, the station does show in the Wilkes
> Barre-Scranton Arbitron book -- recently with a 1.0 share.   If the
> easternmost part of the market (Monroe County, which includes
> Stroudsburg) were broken out separately, you might be looking at a 3
> or 4.
> 
> I just find it strange that the big players suddenly don't care about
> losing significant numbers of listeners, when less than nine years
> ago, the NAB made such a big fuss about LPFM stations and the
> "massive" havoc and interference they would cause.
> 
> Here's a flashback (scroll down to page 22 for some good reading):
> http://www.radiodiversity.com/nablpfmdoc.pdf
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 10/3/07, Kevin Tekel <amstereoexp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>Radio listeners in the Poconos are complaining that they can no longer
>>receive 770 WABC at night, and although the article tries to put the blame
>>on WABC itself (and strangely, WABC's own Program Director admits that is
>>the case?), the cause is likely IBOC hash from the skywave of 760 WJR and
>>780 WBBM: