On 9/5/2010 9:50 AM, Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:

The big boys pushed IBOC because they wanted to do whatever they could
to _prevent_ the creation of a new all-digital band. They feared that
such a new band would level the playing field so the small broadcaster
would have just as good coverage as they did. That was an intolerable
and frightening idea to them.

That's part of it, but they also did not want to have to pay for the
additional spectrum on a new band.

For all the misinformation that our favorite troll promulgates here, the
fact is that FM IBOC works very well indeed. There have been very few
complaints about interference, and the few complaints that there were,
were found to have no merit because the interference occurred outside
the protected contour (though this was before the power increase was
granted).

I'm sure our favorite troll is well aware of what this law firm is
doing. There is no lawsuit, and there is unlikely to be one. They are
trying to see if they can wrangle some kind of money from BMW and other
automakers.