David Eduardo wrote:
"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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AM analog has to be backed off to a 5 kHz to 7 kHz upper limit, but since
most analog radios don't go that far even, there is no loss and actually
the more limited bandwidth sounds better on many of today's radios. It
certainly sounds no worse.

MOST.. not ALL. How many millions of GE Superadio III's are out there that
will no longer be able to take advantage of the wide AM setting?

Given the CEA estimate of the lifespan of such devices, probalby less than
100 thousand are in operation. Less than 400,000 were sold int otal. I have
been through 4 of them, and none are among the living today.

And these are still in production, not 40+ year old tube radios with dual
bandwidths.

They are a specialty device, of not much appeal to most listeners as they
are not stereo. And, as I said, all the models have sold well under a
half-million.

AM IBOC destroys the usability of those radios on the wide setting.

No, it does not. It just does not sound any better on wide than regular,
because the analgo is limited to 5 to 7 kHz. Considering that there are 1
billion radios in the Us, a few tens of thousands of hi-fi AM radios is
rather insignificant. Since NRSC has limited AM bandwidth to 10 kHz anyway,
the net loss is trifling.

There are some crappy radios that are naturally in wide mode all the
time. They will hear the splatter. What is worse, it will be heard as
high frequency noise.

You keep talking about no loss, nobody's listening, nobody matters.

The fact is that there is very little daytime listening to AM outside the
city grade contours. There is essentially no measurable night listening
except to a handful of clear channel staitons, mostly the old 1 Am and a few
1 B channels. On the other hand, radio faces major challenges, but AM and
FM. If a tiny amount of present-day fringe listening is lost to give radio a
longer life span, that is a tiny price to pay.

It used to be the FCC served the public, not the broadcasters. Now it
only serves the public when naked breasts are involved. There ARE
people who live in rural areas where there is no FM service. Really,
I've been there. AM is all they got, so they DX all the time, not as a
hobby. IBOC is intentional QRM.


You are defending a "today" that is ending. If you want there to be free
radio tomorrow, some chnages have to happen.

Take your IBOC shilling somewhere else. I don't see where most of us here
want to hear about it.

I am trying to explain why htings must change if there is to be any kind of
free radio in the future... AM, FM, SW of any kind. If you want media all
controlled by Rupert Murdeoch and a few major companies that are world-wide,
then stick to your guns. You will be part of the death of free radio.

You are a shill, but a polite shill.


Take it to rec.radio.broadcasting if you are even still welcome there. I
know at least one person who has met you in r/l and says you're just as
much a pompous ass in r/l as you are here.

Funny, I tend to get invited to speak at conventions and such because I say
what has to be said. were I a paraiah, I doubt I would be at the keynote
sessions of the NAB and such.

I get so sick of being marginalized by the likes of you. You are
"marginalizing" yourself, if I get what you mean by the word. the
interstate highways marginalized Route 66. There is a reason: Americans
had more money, better cars and greater needs for fast delivery of goods.
Route 66 is analog. HD is digital radio.

You ARE affecting people with this crap, we are not NOBODY.

Sorry, but you are. You are standing nearly alone with a dwindling bunch of
AM DXers who want the world to spin backwards. If you care about radio
surviving, and, more than that, if you care about the 120,000 employees of
US radio stations, you would be more wise to look at what can make the
medium viable further into the future.


HD will do more harm to AM than help it. Everyone knows those "free" HD
channels won't be free for ever, Radio is about content first and
foremost. The only thing that will save us from HD will be the
religious stations that will not go HD because they won't pay the
royalities, and will complain about the reduced audience. For a
religious station, it is the schmuck with the check that matters, not
an Arbitron rating.