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

[Broadcast List USER]

However, once "radio" is cellular/WiFi delivered, there is no longer a  
monopoly, nor any barrier to entry.

Once there is no financial barrier to entry, ANYONE can be a  
"broadcaster."

This doesn't help any current broadcaster.

I have to agree that the consumer didn't ask for IBOC, though I don't  
think we needed to start somewhere.  I'm not sure we needed to start  
at all.

OH, and our current cell phones are iPhones, and I believe they are  
just over two years old, 3G, not 3Gs.

I don't think they are fossils.

--chip

On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:42 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 19
> From: Jeff Glass <Xmitters at aol.com>
>
> In a message dated 2/2/10 11:49:43 AM Central Standard Time,
> broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:
>> [...]
>> I am all for technology, but this is one technology that enriches  
>> only
>> one company, and is hurting broadcasting.
>>
>> --chip
>
> 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