D Peter Maus wrote:
RHF wrote:
I B O C"Deed and Half-Crocked,

Just like XM & SIRIUS Satellite "DAB" Broadcasting where the
Canadian Radio Stations {Broacasters} and Canadian Government
found out that the Canadian People were in-fact Listening to these
two DAB Satellite Systems : The Canadian Business Interests
and the Canadian Government both wanted a piece of the
Profits to be made in Canada. Hence, XM & SIRIUS Satellite
"DAB" Broadcasting has been authorized for Canada with some
added Canadian Content.

Geographic Reality : About Three-Quarters (75%) of Canada's
Population lives within 150 kilometres (90 Miles) of the US Border.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada#Demographics
Which puts the majority of Canada's Population within the Service
Contours of many US Border AM & FM Radio Stations.
Over the next Decade {10 Years} more and more Canadians will
be exposed to AM & FM "HD" Radio using the IBOC Technology.
Over time many Canadians will buy a "HD" Radio to hear 'those'
American Radio Stations that they currently like to listen to.
At some point-in-time it will become in the Economic Interest
of both Canadian Broadcasting Businesses and the Canadian
Government to 'transition' to "HD" Radio using IBOC Technology.

HD Radio : It Is Not A Question of "IF" - It Is A Question of "WHEN"
http://groups.google.com/group/hd-ra...1d18d3b0b4f423
Time and the Next Generation of AM & FM Radio Listeners is
on the side of "HD" Radio using IBOC Technology in the USA
and eventually in Canada. Can Europe Be Far Behind ?
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-ps- Telamon be sure to Count this as another
one of my 'Clueless Posts' -cause- IT IS ! ;-{
Plus Extra Credit for the : Cut, Copy and Paste Stuff. )
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it's a 'vision' thing - hy dee ray dee oh ~ RHF
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HD RADIO = http://groups.google.com/group/hd-radio/
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On Jan 29, 9:36 am, IBOCcrock wrote:
On Jan 29, 8:33 am, RHF wrote:

On Jan 28, 2:37 pm, IBOCcrock wrote:
"Germany flicks off-switch on DAB"
"Part of the problem is that analogue FM never went away and most
people didn't seem to care for the clear digital-quality sound, and
were left nonplussed by such benefits as easy tuning and message
displays with song names and titles. DAB is struggling almost
everywhere in Europe. The standard never really succeeded in Europe
except in Denmark and the UK, where this year the upgraded DAB+ format
will be launched (including podcast services)."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01...tches_dab_off/
"Two digital radio stations to close" UK
"Digital radio will suffer a double blow this weekend with the closure
of two national digital stations, Oneword and Core. GCap Media's music
station Core is expected to close tomorrow, while UBC's spoken word
outfit Oneword, whose future has long been in doubt, will cease
broadcasting on Saturday. Both stations were broadcast via digital
audio broadcasting (DAB) on Digital One, the national digital radio
multiplex majority-owned by GCap. In a dramatic scaling back of GCap's
digital offerings, its digital music station Life is also set to close
while its chillout station, Chill, has been removed from the Sky
Digital platform."
http://tinyurl.com/2coldb
"Digital Radio in Canada"
"The Commission is very concerned about the stalled DRB transition.
Roughly 15 of the 76 authorized stations (including the digital-only
operation in Toronto) are not on the air. Some stations that once
operated have since ceased operations. Few recievers have been sold,
and there is no interest in expanding DRB service beyond the six
cities where it exists."
http://americanbandscan.blogspot.com...adio-in-canada....

"Straining to hear digital radio - Europe has a head start in
terrestrial digital radio, but is anybody listening?"
"But today, digital radio is struggling to find its legs. While it's
still in the cradle in the United States, it has begun to crawl, a
bit, in Europe and elsewhere... Europe has had a standard for digital
radio for some time. The European Union adopted the standard, called
Eureka 147, 10 years ago. But high prices and a lack of consumer
interest have kept the market tiny."
http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=...524&ref=nb ra

"Annual DAB sales 50% below forecast"
"The following graphs are copied from the DRDB's (Digital Radio
Development Bureau -- UK DAB's marketing and PR arm) sales forecast
documents from 2004 and 2007, and they show that the forecast sales
for 2008 are a massive 50% below what the DRDB had previously forecast
they would be for 2008, and the cumulative sales will be 18% below
previously forecast by the end of this year and 30% below what they
had previously forecast by the end of next year."
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/ar...ales-50-below-...

LMFAO iBiquity, Eduardo!
This is Digital Audio Broadcasting
(DAB)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting
using the Eureka 147
Standard.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_radio
BBC -Info- DAB & Eureka 147 {174 MHz ~ 240
MHz}http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/papers/...paper_21.shtml
WORLD DAB ORG -http://www.worlddab.org/
DAB Ensembles Worldwide
-http://www.wohnort.org/http://www.wohnort.demon.co.uk/DAB/index.html
Latest DAB Updates and News
I B OC'Deed and Half-Crocked,
I predict that within 10 Years Europe will go IBOC.
it is a vision thing ~ RHF
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-ps- Telamon be sure to Count this as another
one of my 'Clueless Posts' -cause- IT IS ! ;-{
Plus Extra Credit for the : Cut, Copy and Paste Stuff. )


As I've said, this technology may fail, but it's not going to go
away anytime soon. There's too much money invested now to just abandon
it, two years in. Even DAB in Germany tested for a decade. And Radio is
terribly tenacious when it comes to what it thinks needs to happen.

It will take a LOOONGGG time for IBOC to go away. Even if it's an
abject failure. And then, there is the FCC mandate that all future
modulation schemes be DIGITAL.

They may be denying it now, but they denied it with HD TV, too, and
then mandated an end to analog TV broadcasting anyway.

There is no reason, especially with conditional access under test
right now, to believe that the current hybrid digital/analog system of
broadcast will be allowed to remain in place indefinitely.

Eventually, as the chairman of iBiquity said, it will be an all
digital system.

Radio will be for the rich only. The poor can twist in the wind. The
middle-class will have been long vanished.