What's really bad is.
When I called WOR up in June to ask them, "Where I could get a Digital
Receiver?"
They laughed at me and said. You can go to any Best Buy or Wall-Mart to buy
a radio.
I then said, "I know I can buy any AM radio. But I want to listen to WOR's
digital IBOC.
Then the guy asks, "What's IBOC?". I said that High Def digital radio.
He then says No. We don't broadcast that kind of radio. You need to
subscibe to Satellite radio to listen to digital radio.





"numeric" wrote in message
...


Mike Terry wrote:
28 July 2004

Clear Channel are leading American radio and speeding up the industry's
adoption of digital technology and has agreed a deal to make 1,000 of
its
stations digital. The broadcaster will use the iBiquity, in-band HD
system,
developed by iBiquity Digital Corporation, a company in which Clear
Channel
has a small interest. By 2007 San Antonion-based Clear Channel expects
to
convert 95 per cent of its 1,200 AM and FM stations to digital in its
top
100 markets, which include the Baltimore-Washington area, as well as New
York and Cincinnati. Initially the conversion will cost about £70,000 a
station, but the price is expected to decrease as the R & D costs are
reclaimed.

http://www.theradiomagazine.co.uk/News.htm




Good news if one is lucky enough to find where to buy a digital radio
for terrestrial reception. Except for satellite radio, terrestrial
digital radio is a well kept secret. There is one digital AM radio
station in the NYC area, WOR 710 KHZ, and no available receiver. I get a
blank stare when I ask the so-called technical expert retail guy if
their store sells digital AM radios. Maybe in the future there will be
an after market auto radio capable of digital AM/FM reception and short
wave DRM digital reception.