RadioBanter - "Who's this Gleason", from Glenn Hauser's DX Listening Digest

** U S A [and non]. Re discussion of airborne Martí 530, etc.: Who's
this Gleason? If it's David Gleason, he's an enemy of the true
broadcaster. He claims that "AM Stereo is not proven technology", when
it's been a proven technology during its 26 years of use. He supported
IBOC, lock stock and barrel. I had a lot of run-ins with him over how
to run a radio station; he favored an anti-community and anti-career
stance, while my stance has always been for fostering better relations
with the DX community and the local community, and for building
careers and continuing to build them, not building them only to have
them destroyed at an instance. I would never hire him for any
engineering job, regardless of whether my station broadcasts in
English, Spanish, French or even Cantonese. 73, (Eric (N0UIH)
Bueneman, IRCA via DXLD)

Interested as well to know about Gleason. Would have asked earlier but
public shaming and disgrace over "Banishment for Life" from eminent
radio board is excruciating. Revealing one's pig-ignorance of Mr.
Gleason would be too much to endure. The angst of it all...

IBOC cheerleaders resent questions and cannot credibly refute
statements about interference. They behave not as inventors and
innovators but rather as cynical opportunists with much to hide.

No one minds Ibiquity sending twenty channels of color TV, internet,
and movies over AM radio. The poison pill is interference.

What marks IBOC promoters is evasiveness. Why? Familial proxy poison
for profit hi-jinx graced undersigned worthless scribe with insight:
predators act out their worst fears. In harming others they tell us
what they fear experiencing themselves. Ask, "what are they doing?"
IBOC is hiding and jamming. Promoting imaginary benefits --- traffic
texting --- does not for one moment conceal the unspoken ---
Interference. They hide the truth because they fear its publication.
They jam non-IBOC stations because they fear being jammed themselves,
they're a house of cards awaiting our wind.

Exposure's what they fear. Jamming for profit is a cheater's strategy
to monopolize broadcasting by those who neither care about talent nor
the audience. Publicity they cannot control will stop them cold.
Coldly, -Z.- (Paul Vincent Zecchino, Manasoviet Key, FL, 25 2330Z JUN
05 BT, IRCA mailing list via DXLD)

Short version of my earlier gaseous diatribe: IBOC promoters greased
and cheated their way into market place because they fear its result
when allowed to work. As you say, damaged stations, indifferent
listeners, and a public upset about all the noise on their once useful
radios will scuttle young Struble's noisy little RF stinkbomb for
good. Stinkily, -Z.- (Paul Vincent Zecchino, Manasoviet Key, FL, BT
IRCA mailing list via DXLD)

But who is Gleason? I confess, I don't know. Wouldn't know him if I
fell over him. Is he a Moderator? Palace Guard? Poohbah? Animist?
Counterrevolucionario? Philatelist? You experienced rudeness from him
as well? Just can't say anything today, people so touchy. Dr.
DeV______'s rules for safe life in today's world:

1. Touch no one.
2. Say little.
3. Nothing in writing. -Z.-

"I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees."
- Bud, "Repo Man", c. 1984, Alex Cox
(Paul Vincent Zecchino, Manasoviet Key, FL, BT, ibid.)

He`s a VP at Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation. He`s a true believer
in IBOC and loves to stick the fact that IBOC is going to end DXing in
people`s faces. He tells the truth though about corporations and their
true relationship with DXers.

There is no relationship between DXers, listeners, and corporations.
Corporations exist to make money. The listeners and DXers don`t count.
What counts is that the advertisers buy time. I might not like it, but
he`s right. Corporations exist to make money, period.

He was a broadcaster in many Latin American countries for many years.
If you let him, he`ll drive you nuts.

He is exceptionally corporate and speaks the truth according to the
corporation and as painful as it is, he is right about how
corporations deal with everyone and how they deal with ad dollars,
pesos, australs or whatever the coin of the realm is, in the country
where he happens to be working. If you aren`t buying time, you are of
no use.

I`d say the same thing if I were a VP at a corporation. I begrudgingly
give him some respect, although I generally don`t agree with him. He
also goes by the name David Eduardo on other lists (Kevin Redding,
IRCA mailing list via DXLD).