[BC] In the AM radio wars of the '60, they talked big and talked back

[Broadcast List USER]

No.  They are not glorified iPods, but crippled ones.

MY iPod is filled with MY music.  If I didn't like it, it wouldn't be  
there.

Even still, if something comes on that I don't want to hear right now,  
I just push the "next" button.

The crippled iPods feeding the HD2 and HD3 channels don't have my  
music on them, nor can I press the "next" button.  Same for the Jack  
format.


On the other hand, WMAL (AM) 630 kHz in DC is also on WRQX (FM) HD2.   
I drove from DC to Nashville for the weekend nearly two weeks ago, and  
I heard that on a few other AMs.  They were on some FM's HD2.  I don't  
have an IBAC radio so I cannot listen, but are they covering the  
commercials?

Those AMs on HD2 are trying to get radio networks to "affiliate" the  
HD2.  I don't see the point if they are not able to carry the network  
commercials.  In fact, if I were in charge of the network, I would  
refuse to allow network programming without commercials to be carried  
on the IBAC channels.

--chip

On Oct 6, 2009, at 8:51 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:16:27 -0700
> From: Glen Kippel <glen.kippel at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [BC] In the AM radio wars of the '60s,	they talked big
> 	and talked 	back
> [...]
> So, are we seeing the same story with IBOC?  Nope.  It's the same  
> formulaic
> programming (except for Rich's station!) and the extra channels are,  
> for the
> most part, glorified i-Pods.  Why buy a new radio to hear that?   
> Sorry, I
> don't see IBOC getting off the ground.