On Mar 2, 11:41�am, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"dxAce" wrote in message
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David 'Edtardo' Gleason, prancing Univision shill, wrote:
"Porgy Tirebiter" wrote in message
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Mistake my ass! It's the answer to the Beaner-Blaster AM stations
taking
over the AM band. AM IBOC sounds a LOT better than analog AM ever has
or
will.
Regional Mexican stations are almost exclusively on FM, not AM.
Hispanics, a
very young grou´p. don´'t use AM.
I for one am sick and tired of hearing "OOOMPA" music and dreaded
mariachi
crap at stoplights, emanating from a beat up Ford aerostar van....
In any case, they are listedning to FM.
The Beaners wont buy HD radios. IBOC can turn a burrito-blaster back
into
a good AM station and a moneymaker in the longrun.
Some of our stations, when we have added HD2 schannels, have caused every
retail outlet with HD receivers to sell out.
Hispanic consumer spendable income is just at one trillion dollars a
year.
Not only is IBOC making headway, but so is DRM.....getting big and
working
well in Europe.
DRM is making no headway on medium wave.
Neither is IBOC. Like you, it's one of the stupidest things to come around
in
the past 60 years.
Actually, HD is under serious consideration in a number or countries in
Europe.
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"In-Stat: Digital Radio Set to Take Off"
"In 2006, 73 percent of respondents to an In-Stat U.S. consumer survey
were aware of HD Radio on some level."
http://beradio.com/eyeoniboc/instat-digital-radio-set/
"Sirius, XM, and HD: Consumer interest reality check" (Alexaholic)
"While interest in satellite radio is diminishing, interest in HD
shows no signs of a pulse."
http://www.hear2.com/2007/02/sirius_....html#comments
This just confirms, the lack of interest for HD Radio, on Google
Trends:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22hd... =all&date=all
"Rethinking AM's Future"
"Only 175 or so AM stations have even licensed AM-HD. For a number of
reasons, quite a few have tried it and taken it off the air, or so the
anecdotal evidence suggests. Ibiquity no longer reports in its public
summaries whether a station is on the air. Making AM-HD work well as a
long-term investment is seen as an expensive and risky challenge for
most stations and their owners. With the bulk of successful AMs airing
news, talk and sports, the improved fidelity advantage of HD and
stereo seem only marginally attractive. There is the significant
downside of potential new interference to some of their own AM analog
listeners as well as listeners of adjacent-channel stations. And of
course we still have no nighttime authority for AM-HD."
http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html
Existing RDS has the same texting functions, as HD/IBOC. For now, HD
Radio/IBOC is dead.