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Old October 7th 07, 12:41 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default ABC pulls plug on nightime IBOC

On Oct 6, 5:33?pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
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On Oct 6, 1:56?pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"dxAce" wrote in message


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Is that bad news for Eduardo?


Just getting up in the morning and having to fake it through another
day
is bad
news for 'Eduardo'.


It's not good or bad news. It is one company which wants to further study
and maybe request modifications of night HD. What the bad news is has to
do
with the declining and ageing listenership of AM... HD was a hope that
had a
slim chance of reversing this.


"Because of lackluster performance, limited benefit, and reports of
significant interference to other stations, please reinstitute daytime-
only procedures for IBOC-AM...."


You forgot something, dirtbag!


No, nothing is forgotten. Without a technology advance, AM is on its way
out. When AM listening is now below 10% in many smaller markets, and does
not exceed 20% anywhere (SF, where the market definition is based on the
coverage of three AMs), the issue is that any inability to get HD going,
technically, via marketing, etc., has doomed the AM band in the US:- Hide quoted text -

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Your whole industry will be obsolete in 15 years:

"AM, FM Radio Predicted to End in 15 Years"

"The next 15 years will be the demise of terrestrial radio as we know
it and the rise of the extraterrestrial," he said. Just as Vaudeville
gave way to movies and horses to the automobile, he said, radio will
be overtaken by gadgets that serve people's needs more efficiently."

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