David Eduardo wrote:
"K Isham" wrote in message news:46deb07a@kcnews01...
I realize that radio must make a profit, but, when you drive listeners
away with this buzzing noise on AM

"The buzzing noise" is heard on the channels adjacent to a local station
with HD. No "other station" is protected from adjacent channel interference
in the primary coverage are of the station using HD, and there is certainly,
other than DX, no listening to adjacent channels.


What you haven't addressed is when a local station is on someone
else's adjacent, and their digital sidebands interfere with the local
station's audio.

THAT"s what's got so many people around here in a lather. The noise
is everywhere. Keeps me from listening to WLS which is one of my locals.

The truth is, that this system is designed with certain assumptions
in mind. One is that there is no value to stations out of market. I'll
tell you hear and now when lightning, or a power surge takes down one of
the primary AM's here, and there's only digital hash from some out of
market station covering up nearby information alternatives, the phrase,
'licensed to serve the in the public interest as a public trustee' takes
on a laughable quality.

The other major assumption is that some listeners can be orphaned
without penalty.

Both are tragically flawed. And if Radio doesn't pay heed, the
listener decline will be dramatic, as they move to alternative media.

I've been experimenting with a Wi-Fi radio, using one of the open
nets in Gurnee. I can't get WLS at home because of digital interference,
but I can over some wi-fi feed in the next suburb? What's wrong with
this picture?

And it's not a viable alternative for me. I do too much listening
that requires a portable. Which is why I got a MyFi for satellite radio.

And there's XM, of course. I also have an iPod adaptor in my Envoy
that lets me control the iPod through the databuss. No wires, nothing in
the way. But full selection without hassle to my entire music library.
And XM, there, too.

And with XM's new weekend schedule for XM Public Radio, I get my
favorite shows in the order I want them, just as they used to be on
WBEZ, without interference, without bull****...and without any over the
air radio.

So, I may soon, not miss WLS. I may find alternatives sufficient. And
then where do you go. I provide some of the longest TSL's radio has ever
seen. Meaning, advertisers get REAL value for what they spend when I'm
listening.

But, I'm 56. Who cares. Right? Let's see...in this post alone I've
got more than a kilobuck in discretionary spending represented, of no
value to anyone.

Quite a resource to be wasted. You think I'm the only one?

To quote a WWII Bugs Bunny cartoon, 'Wake up....it's later than you
think."

Now...I did speak to the PD at WLS...Kipper is a friend of mine, and
used to work for me when I was programming downstate. He suggested I
pick up the HD-2 stream on the FM. WLS is there.

Ironic, isn't it?

Not really a viable alternative, either...since I do a good deal of
my listening while outdoors.

ALL the money they spent attaching HD to WLS, and even on the inside,
they suggest listeners pick up the HD stream on the FM?

Trashing the AM band, Brother David, is not going to bring lower end
demos. Younger people are not listening to AM because it's AM....they're
not even GETTING to the sound quality, yet. Moving a viable AM to FM is
a good move. Younger demos are already listening there. But going
digital on AM isn't going to help. They're not going to go there. They
haven't been for more than a generation, now. All you're doing is
putting a digital alternative to the same programming they're not
listening to, on a band they institutionally have no interest in.

And you're doing it at the cost of those who DO listen. With
instutrionalized interference, that, in the end, will cost you all your
listeners. And all their revenue streams.

HD on the FM is marginal. It's not the boon to sound quality claimed
for it. On the average, it's not an improvement at all. But it does not
create the kind of interference that HD AM does. HD on FM is more or
less innoquous. HD-AM, however, is destructive. And does nothing but
line the pockets of iBiquity stockholders. And those who propagate their
propaganda. And it does so by depriving active, responsive listeners of
their personal choices in listening.

We may be comparitively few...but, as a whole we spend more. And when
the interference REALLY kicks in...we're not going to be as few as you
think.


I'm all for Profit, David. But I expect something in return. I don't
expect to see companies rewarded handsomely for depriving me of my
choices. Yes, I can listen to something else. But I can't do it where I
want, when I want.

Actually, in the long vision, that's your loss more than it is mine.

And I'm not alone.