On Feb 29, 9:29*am, IBOCcrock wrote:
"HD(tm) Radio and Satellites: Radio Interference"

*HD(tm) Radio, beneficiary of an FCC-authorized monopoly, is broadcasting
desperation by crying "monopoly" and "Lemme in!" *on the proposed XM
Radio -Sirius Radio satellite radio (SatRad) merger. What balls gall.
To add insult to injury, huge Clear Channel Communications, long a
target of media-consolidation foes, argues that a SatRad merger should
include HD reception on SatRad radios, though the technologies and
business models have nothing in common at all.

iBiquity corporation, monopoly license holder of the HD(tm) Radio
franchise, and the HD(tm) Radio Alliance, lobby for manufacturers and
others conned into implementing iBiquity's unproven technology, whine
that any post-merger XM-Sirius radio receivers should receive HD(tm)
Radio signals too. This is a desperate attempt to stall action by a
completely different technology with a completely different business
model merely because it has proven less of a failure than HD(tm) Radio.
SatRadio is a service consumers actually want.

Consumers willing buy SatRad receivers and pay monthly subscriptions;
they like the reception quality, broad choices, lack of commercials
and "underwriter announcements," and the ability to hear the same
programming on the same frequency anywhere in the continental U.S.
without having to hunt for sydicated broadcasts on local earth
stations every few miles when listening in their cars.

Consumers have shown themselves unwilling to buy first-generation HD(tm)
Radio receivers that duplicate their regular FM recievers but add the
HD(tm) Radio broadcasts -- at least in the 20 to 30 percent of the
reception area of the host station's conventional FM signal area where
they can be heard. HD(tm) Radio broadcasters even tell you to get your
old rooftop TV antenna out of the basement to use with your brand-new
HD(tm) Radio receiver. The HD Alliance spin machine attempts to fudge the
numbers can't hide the fact.

In a car travelling across country, or even commuting between exurbs
and central city, the HD(tm) Radio signals cut off; the SatRadio signals
don't. HD(tm) Radio conned National Public Radio (NPR) into becoming an
early adopter through license and equipment bargains and subsidies.
What NPR and iBiuquity forgot: public radio listeners are older,
better-educated and more skeptical. When they learn that the "HD" in
HD(tm) Radio does not stand for "High Definition" but is a clever ploy to
confuse a public coping with converting to digital television, they
become livid.

The iBiuquity corporation even gets free government-mandated ads on
regular FM -- the FCC forces FM radio stations with those weak HD(tm)
Radio signals on their sidebands to use the designation "HD-1" after
their call signs in station IDs on conventional FM broadcasts. And now
HD(tm) Radio wants to horn in on a deal that has nothing to do with them,
as if interfering with more successful competitors will make their
failed product any more attractive.

HDTM Radio interference in the SatRad merger deal only draws
attentition to the vast differences in quality and viability between
the two modes. HDTM Radio is a loser; does it have to be a whiner,
too?

http://tinyurl.com/2f5foa

IBOCcrock - Keep-Up the Good Work )

Very Good as long as it has : IBOC -or- HD Radio -or- iBiquity
in the Subject-Line : I do not have a problem with any Post
about the iBiquity Digital Corporation's IBOC Broadcast
Scheme for AM/FM "HD" {Digital} Radio in the USA.
IBOC - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_on-channel
HD RADIO - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Radio
iBIQUITY - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBiquity
FCC DIGITAL RADIO - http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/digital/
GOOGLE -for- IBOC - http://tinyurl.com/2tpblf
IBOC -via- GOOGLE NEWS - http://tinyurl.com/2ly77y

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