At sunup, the AM band goes to **** here in Southern California. You
lose more than half the stations.

On Feb 23, 11:57 am, David wrote:
At sunup, the AM band goes to **** here in Southern California. You
lose more than half the stations.

No big surprise, but luckily, looks like AM IBOC is pretty dead:

"RW Opinion: Rethinking AM's future"

"Only 175 or so AM stations have even licensed AM-HD. For a number of
reasons, quite a few have tried it and taken it off the air, or so the
anecdotal evidence suggests. (Ibiquity no longer reports in its public
summaries whether a station is on the air.)"

http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html

Here comes Edweeeeeeenie ! :-)

True to all Neo-Kommie Liberals, never are
the facts to be revealed:


http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html

Here comes Edweeeeeeenie ! :-)


"To date, almost 1,400 FM stations have licensed the Ibiquity standard. The
majority of those are on the air; and according to estimates from Ibiquity
and the alliance, the number of stations multicasting is near or more than
500 (estimates vary)."
....
"The marketplace is heavy with hi-fi audio entertainment and information
delivery systems. FM, satellite, iPods, MP3 players and the Internet have
stolen much of AM radio's potential audience. There is no public demand for
another radio band to be created to "save" AM and added to the busy array of
choices."
....
"The Canadian DOC reportedly is considering adopting the Ibiquity format for
FM but not for AM; Digital Radio Mondiale may be its AM choice. Ibiquity
should take a long look at this development and seriously consider
incorporating DRM into its AM system to make it more flexible and scalable.
DRM could well become a more worthy option for AM stations and their digital
future."

"Regardless, developments in and around digital radio for AM are raising
pressing concerns."

Soon, analog AM will die just like shortwave.

On Feb 23, 4:02�pm, "Guerite�" wrote:
True to all Neo-Kommie Liberals, never are
the facts to be revealed:



http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html

Here comes Edweeeeeeenie ! *:-)

"To date, almost 1,400 FM stations have licensed the Ibiquity standard. The
majority of those are on the air; and according to estimates from Ibiquity
and the alliance, the number of stations multicasting is near or more than
500 (estimates vary)."
...
"The marketplace is heavy with hi-fi audio entertainment and information
delivery systems. FM, satellite, iPods, MP3 players and the Internet have
stolen much of AM radio's potential audience. There is no public demand for
another radio band to be created to "save" AM and added to the busy array of
choices."
...
"The Canadian DOC reportedly is considering adopting the Ibiquity format for
FM but not for AM; Digital Radio Mondiale may be its AM choice. Ibiquity
should take a long look at this development and seriously consider
incorporating DRM into its AM system to make it more flexible and scalable.
DRM could well become a more worthy option for AM stations and their digital
future."

"Regardless, developments in and around digital radio for AM are raising
pressing concerns."

Soon, analog AM will die just like shortwave.

"In-Stat: Digital Radio Set to Take Off"

"In 2006, 73 percent of respondents to an In-Stat U.S. consumer survey
were aware of HD Radio on some level."

http://beradio.com/eyeoniboc/instat-digital-radio-set/

"Sirius, XM, and HD: Consumer interest reality check" (Alexaholic)

"While interest in satellite radio is diminishing, interest in HD
shows no signs of a pulse."

http://www.hear2.com/2007/02/sirius_....html#comments

This just confirms, the lack of interest for HD Radio, on Google
Trends:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22hd... =all&date=all

For now, HD Radio/IBOC is dead.