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

[Jeff Glass]

In a message dated 2/2/10 11:49:43 AM Central Standard Time, 
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

> Even with my very large yagi at 35 feet, I cannot hear ANY IBOC.  Yet,  
>  before IBOC, I used to listen to FM stations 180 miles away, and I  
>  cannot do that today.
>  
>  Tell me how that is any kind of improvement!
>  
>  I am all for technology, but this is one technology that enriches only  
>  one company, and is hurting broadcasting.
>  
>  --chipo

Chip:

I agree with you. Losing coverage is NOT an advantage. Digital radio had to 
be deployed somehow. Like it or not, our industry chose IBOC. To make 
matters worse, the consumer neither asked for digital radio, or are they buying 
into it. We had to start somewhere.

I believe that the infrastructure for delivering digital radio will be the 
cellular/WiFi network. We'll shut of our analog junk and feed our program 
line to a cell/WiFi provider. That is the technology where the receiver 
equipment is; that is the technology where rollout of "new receivers" will be 
easier; a two year old cellphone is considered as a fossil. 

Jeff Glass,
Northern Illinois University
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