On 24 Jul 2003 16:19:32 GMT, "Cooperstown.Net"
wrote: I'm archiving this message and will trot it out whenever you good = radio folks argue from the Bakersfield Theory...the theory that radio is = spread too thin because the government allows too much competition for a = limited audience. Here is a station that has neither a service to offer = nor a profit until it meets the monthly nut on $250 million. station is correctly priced on its perceived potential, irrespective of = its actual billing...and yet Bakersfielders would have us believe that = listener service would be enhanced if only the FCC would engineer = greater scarcity for the benefit of the owners. Jerome As the author of what you term the Bakersfield argument, I contend your argument fails because you (a) assume the station is priced correctly and the buyer did not over-pay -- which is a common phenomenon in broadcasting -- and (b) fail to take market size into account. Los Angeles is so big that a station with a tiny percentage of the audience is still reaching so many people that it can be profitable. In smaller markets that just isn't so. Divide up the pie in Bakersfield thinly enough, and nobody makes any money. Without consolidation, only the top-ranked handful of Bakersfield's 30+ signals could be operated profitably today. Only three or four of Bakersfield stations can be considered full-service operations under the loosest definition of that term, and they're all in clusters of three or more signals. A stand-alone, fully-staffed all-news station with a 2 share in L.A. can be hugely profitable. A station with a 2 share in Bakersfield pretty much needs to be automated, and the rent had better be cheap. The Los Angeles metro is listed by Arbitron with a population of 10.407.400, approximately 21 times the size of the Bakersfield metro. So a station that is really nothing but a "stick" selling for $250,000,000 in Los Angeles, is roughly analogous to such a Bakersfield station selling at between $11 and 12 million, which would be high (my employer sold a full power TV station a few years back for about that much), but I suppose it's possible. Of course, having paid out that money, you'd have no guarantee of ever making it back. And if you did, it would mean you really did invent a better moustrap and put somebody else out of contention. Mark Howell |
If anyone can post an audio sample (with a link here) of an IBOC-AM using an
average AM radio please do so. Band-scans up and down across 930 WPAT's IBOC signal (notice how it nearly obliterates 920 WPHY and hisses in the background of 910 WRKL and 950 WPEN): ftp://ftp.amstereoradio.com/uploads/wpatiboc.mp3 ftp://ftp.amstereoradio.com/uploads/wpatscn2.mp3 Switching back and forth between 1530 WSAI and 1520 WWKB, when WSAI was testing IBOC at night and WWKB happened to be broadcasting "dead air", making the "hash" from WSAI even more noticeable (skywave reception from New Jersey): ftp://ftp.amstereoradio.com/iboc/wsaiiboc.mp3 |
i cannot believe that it is allowed (fcc rules?) to disturb the regular
reception of other AM stations in the locality! why do they let this happen? As the FCC will tell you if you make this sort of complaint, the FCC does not and cannot guarantee reception of any station, regardless of power output, distance to the receiver or interference. |
I really has more to do with TV. Actually, Soccer is very homoerotic.
They wear skimpy shorts and often get them pulled down during play. Soccer players seem more physically comfortable with each other than American players. They don't seem to care what anybody thinks. Rubgy, too... I'd love to hear the radio play-by-play of what the article below describes. It's a strange world, isn't it? American athletes go around raping and killing people, while Aussies engage in foreplay with their teammates right on the field. And was nobody suspicious when they saw this guy carrying around a tube of KY? :-) Rugger Resigns Over Rectal Fouls Matt Alsdorf, Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network Wednesday, April 4, 2001 / 05:51 PM Digital penetration of opposing players while on the field was deemed "unsportsmanlike interference" by Australian rugby's governing body, and the offending player has been forced to resign. An Australian pro rugby player who resigned this weekend after being caught sticking his finger in opposing players' anuses during a match is now considering taking legal action against the New Zealand Cancer Society (NZCS) for using his picture in an advertisement for prostate cancer checks. John Hopoate, a winger for the Australian National Rugby League's West Tigers club, received a 12-week suspension from the NRL judiciary last week for "unsportsmanlike interference" with three North Queensland players whom he digitally penetrated. The Associated Press reported that the resignation came after team management met to consider calls for his removal. Hopoate said he believed his decision was in the best interest of the club and its fans, according to Agence France Presse. "I sincerely regret that anything I may have done has caused stress, anxiety and disappointment to everyone involved with the West Tigers," AFP quoted Hopoate as saying in a statement he released through his manager. NZCS took out an advertisement in New Zealand's The Dominion newspaper with a color close-up of Hopoate apparently sticking his finger in North Queensland captain Paul Bowman's anus. According to the Australian Associated Press (AAP), the accompanying text reads, "A bloke's chances of developing prostate cancer increases as he gets older. If you have symptoms that you're concerned about, consult your local doctor. It won't hurt a bit -- promise." The AAP reports that Hopoate and his manager say they were not consulted by NZCS about use of the image and are "looking at the legal ramifications." NRL chief executive David Moffett said the ad was "appalling." But NZCS's Roger Taylor was quoted by New Zealand's One News as saying, "It's a difficult message to get across for a difficult disease ... and we felt our normal health promotion doesn't work that well and that this was a topical issue that would perhaps get it out there." According to AFP, Hopoate, a 27-year-old teetotalling Mormon father of five, had faced the NRL's disciplinary commission seven times in the past four years, primarily for fighting. p.s. Relevancy to this thread: Due to its 8.5-second digital encoding/transmission/decoding delay, IBOC is incapable of broadcasting live sporting events in real-time. And since the analog audio is also delayed to match, spectators who bring a transistor radio to the game will hear the play-by-play of what happened 8.5 seconds ago! |
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I wonder if that's why our teams wear such protective uniforms. All
this time we thought it was to avoid breaking bones. Yeah, that's about as believable as the reasons cyclists say they wear skin-tight spandex outfits which are designed to be worn "commando". Or, as believeable as Mike Savage's excuse "I didn't know I was on the air". |
"WBRW" wrote in message ... If anyone can post an audio sample (with a link here) of an IBOC-AM using an average AM radio please do so. Band-scans up and down across 930 WPAT's IBOC signal (notice how it nearly obliterates 920 WPHY and hisses in the background of 910 WRKL and 950 WPEN): ftp://ftp.amstereoradio.com/uploads/wpatiboc.mp3 ftp://ftp.amstereoradio.com/uploads/wpatscn2.mp3 Thanks for the links, dude ;-), they were most helpful. First-adjacents get the major step-on while seconds get their share of hash. To be fair, much of the hiss (in regard to listening to 930) was on stereo reception. In mono the hiss was less, but still annoying. It's a noisy signal that a strong signal doesn't fix. And don't get me started on the telephone tin-can quality of what's left of the analog signal. 920 & 940 were both obliterated, an inexcusable situation. The fact these stations were receivable without analog interference from 930 suggests these are receivable AM stations being jammed (ok, not intentionally, we'll say involuntary stomping on). Wasn't the FRC (Federal Radio Commission, predecessor to the FCC) formed to stop this kind of interference? As stated before, this isn't IBOC but IBAC twice (an in-band adjacent channel on both sides) with a hit to the main channel to boot (hiss & reduced fidelity). IMHO the only answer is for the FCC to allocate spectrum in the short-wave band for DRM to replicate current AM service in digital. The FCC allocated new bandwidth for FM, let them do the same for DRM. |
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