[BC] BUREAU ADOPTS ORDER TO MODIFY FM DIGITAL

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Jim:

I totally agree, but there are those who want to take TV Channels five
and six and add that 12 MHz to the 20 MHz of the FM band.

I just don't get it.  Let's make the business less profitable.  Let's
spread the business over more than 50% more stations!

Now, if we expanded maybe three MHz down, and got rid of the short
spaced interference problems that plague the NE US, the Chigao area,
and southern CA, I might support that, but more 50% more FM stations
in middle market areas?  No way.

Frankly 80-90 is part of the problem today.

It is time to let the weak stations die, and allow the stronger ones
to improve their signals and MAYBE survive.

--chip

On Jan 31, 2010, at 9:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

>Message: 5
>From: Jim Seaman <james724_ at hotmail.com>
>
>There may be a silver lining in this cloud if the law of unintended
>consequences gets invoked again. This might prove to be the undoing
>of the infamous Docket 80-90 that saturated the FM band with
>hundreds of new "drop-in" assignments, and created many marginal and
>unprofitable radio operations on the fringes of larger markets.
>
>As with the AM band, it's long past time to cull the herd of the
>weak and sickly members. Although this order seems stupid on the
>surface, I suspect that somebody knows exactly what he is doing. The
>question now is not whether the terrestial radio business will
>survive (it will), but "who" will survive the cull.