[BC] DRM broadcasting to begin in USA

[Mike McCarthy]

The bottom line to the objection is simply the smaller stations would be 
given equal footing as the big guns on the transmitters they would be 
carried.  Thus the class A suburban and rim shots would have the same 
signal in some areas in metro's as the home metro's.  The same would apply 
to the little daytimers who would have the same signal as the Class A's in 
their areas.  Further, the Class A's and big Class B/C's would need to pay 
to be on MANY transmitters if they wanted to sustain their current coverage.

In short, it was sot down by all the big guys protecting their turfs...

Then there was the issue of where the must carry inclusion would end and 
who would be responsible.  Many argued the 54dBu contour was it.  Others 
said something lower to as low as the 34dBu contour for the FM's. Which 
created a nightmare for metro stations. On AM, many argued the 1mV or 
0.5mV.  For the Class A's that could be hundreds of transmitters which 
they'd need to send their signal.

The USA is very different than Europe where many AM's are not 50KW and FM's 
are not 100KW Class C's.

MM

At 06:13 PM 10/21/2007 -0700, Glen Kippel wrote
>On 10/21/07, Dana Puopolo <dpuopolo at usa.net> wrote:
> >
> > But Rich, we have perhaps ONE decade before broadband Inernet is widely
> > available in your car. How relevant will the radio be then?
> >
> > -------
>
>
>An article I read about 15 years ago wisely asked, are we in the programming
>business, or the transmission business?  If we had adopted Eureka-147 and
>all the radio stations had to do was create programming to send to a
>centralized transmitter site, how would that change the industry?  If we
>change from sending out programming on AM or FM transmitters to sending it
>out on WiFi, does that change our business model all that much?  TV stations
>already have about 95% of their viewers on cable -- if they turned off their
>transmitters, how much would that affect their bottom line?  Just something
>to think about.
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