[BC] Wow, I wonder if y ou feel the same way about AM?

[Jeff Glass]

In a message dated 2/1/2010 8:00:35 AM Central Standard Time, broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

>OK, FINE, I am NOT in the listening areas of those stations.  However, 
>from my home in Northern Virginia, I could listen to distant Maryland, 
>West Virginia, and RIchmond, VA area stations.  No longer.  CPB has 
>funded most or all National People's Radio stations to go to IBOC.  
>The grass has kept me from being able to hear most of the dozen or 
>more stations I used to listen to.

Chip:

The territories being eaten up by the IBOC sidebands is territory that the FCC never really promised us in the first place.  In many cases, listeners beyond the protected contour do not advertise (or donate if you are NCE) and therefore, don't have a financial impact on the station. Obviously, there are exceptions to this. IBOC is causing LEGAL interference.

The broadcasters pushed for an In Band type of system. To do that, something has to give. I never would have thought in a megayear, that PDs GMs, etc., would have been OK with any plan that meant giving up coverage. But they did.

Jeff Glass
Northern Illinois University
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