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Neil wrote:

How many public stations were sold on the idea that if they went HD,
they'd be able to expand into a second signal in their market for cheap?
Has this been the secret carrot that Ibiquity dangled at the end of the
stick to get so many public broadcasters to jump on the bandwagon,
despite all evidence that this was going to be a kludge of epic proportions?

This is a major scam that was pushed through by iBiquity, who wants to
sell its garbage at any cost to the industry. When push-back came from
broadcasters who complained that no one was buying radios and that they
were wasting their time with the HD-2 channels, this abomination came
about. Broadcasters, for the price of IBOC gear and licensing fee get a
free pass to soak up extra bandwidth on the FM band.

It does have a lot of broadcasters hopping mad.

It, however, does prove how ineffective IBOC really is.

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John Higdon
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