On Oct 16, 1:52�pm, "D. Peter Maus"
wrote:
On 10/16/09 12:08 , SMS wrote:

Dave Barnett wrote:
Is there some big up-front payment you have
to make to iBiquity, because the equipment certainly doesn't cost
anything close to $100K?

� �Yeah, actually, it does. The digital system is virtually a
separate system, requiring separate transmitters and towers.

� �Followed by the ongoing licensing fee to iBiquity for the right
to use the encoding algorithms, which are proprietary.

"I-Bust or H-Doomed"

"In these trying times, it should be pointed out that in most cases
adding IBOC dramatically increases electric bills. I did three build-
outs in Indianapolis and it almost doubled the power bills for the
transmitter sites. Multiply this across the board and it is untold
thousands of dollars a day going up in heat. If IBOC carriers were
turned off, a lot of jobs could be saved with that money."

http://www.radiodaily.net/article.asp?id=1402439

Don't forget the costs of running this junk technology.