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February 25th 08, 11:00 AM
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IBOC : WYSL's Bob Savage on AM-HD
On Feb 25, 1:03*am, RHF wrote:
On Feb 24, 4:26*pm, wrote: So a Salt Lake AM-FM has flipped the order in which it does its legal TOH breaks from AM-FM to FM-AM and that's supposed to make the case, that the only thing which will "save" AM is IBOC? *Pardon me, but B-F- D. *Neither this anecdote nor all the pedantic Arbitron and BIA number- spinning anyone can concoct will obscure the obvious truth: that if anything "is on life support" with no prospects but "certain death the instant the ventilator is switched off," it's IBOC, not AM radio. Hello? *The entire AM IBOC universe consists of 241 US AM stations, all of which are owned by iBiquity investors with the exception of about two dozen, and only a third of which are operating HD at night - that's less than TWO PERCENT of AM stations on the air. *The implementation trend is gradually downward. *There is NO growth in HD- AM on the broadcasting side. *Accounts of unacceptable adjacent channel skywave interference continue to accumulate. *iBiquity has thrown up its hands about the Citadel, Cox and CCU problems, saying there will be no further development of HD-AM beyond the current "state" of the "art." *When it comes to HD-AM, it is what it is, and that's the unsatisfying end of the story. NOBODY is buying HD radios which continue to dwindle in availability. *Receiver sales are an embarassing fraction of the most guarded projections and reportedly most of those units have been returned as defective. *iBiquity had to bribe most receiver manufacturers to display ANY HD products at the most recent CES. *To this day I have never had a single listener or advertiser comment or question about HD Radio. *I do not know anyone who owns or listens to an HD Radio, nor does anyone in my wide circle of friends, relatives, associates or clients own an HD Radio - even the CE of a local major group with several HD-operating outlets doesn't own an HD Radio! *In fact, I have met nobody outside the industry who even knows (or cares) what HD Radio is. *And this is the business I've been in for almost 41 years! If indeed, AM's only hope is to lure people to buy $200 cheesy HD boxes and camp out on the ground screens of 50kw stations to listen to the same progamming as the analog channel, in sparklingly artifact- cobbled fake AM stereo, the future of the band appears bleak. *It would be depressing if I didn't know better, as do many others. My station is having another record year - and in analog, go figure. Two good friends of mine, former Entercom executives, have bought and resuscitated two small market AMs and are having a ball and making money, doing what all of us have done throughout happier days in our careers - serving an audience and advertisers with local radio service. I am struck by the contemptuous gloom with which IBOC supporters view not only AM radio, but radio in general. *They continually preach Kahoutek-style imminent demise and strain mightily to force the defective IBOC-AM concept on a marketplace which couldn't care less. All the stubborn pro-IBOC blogging in the world will not get the HD-AM cadaver to respond to "just one more" application of the AED paddles. Given the choices for music consumers and the incredible failure of corporate radio to respond meaningfully to current trends, I think that - far from being the near-term casualty - AM radio may well be the "last man standing" in broadcasting as music distribution choices continue their proliferation. http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index....716891.html#ms... I B OC'Deed and Half-Crocked, -and now- Pocket Radio 1.2... *. Please put an "IBOC :" at the Start of your Subject-Lines for your Anti-IBOC and Hate "HD" Radio Posts; and you will most likely not see me Posting To Them with this Message. *. IBOC : WYSL's Bob Savage on AM-HD *. HOWEVER - IF You 'Choose' to leave-off the IBOC at the Start of the Subject-Line for these Anti-IBOC and Hate "HD" Radio Posts : You Can Count-On Me Posting To Them and the Subject-Line will be simplified to : *. "IBOC: . . . " *. Which means that you "Lose Promoting and Making Your Anti-IBOC and Hate "HD" Radio Message" for a Message Cycle. *. It's your 'Choice' and for you the 1st is the better option. *. - - - - - - Message To/For One and All - - - - - - *. In Reality many of IBOCcrock's Postings are in-fact Anti-Terrestrial-Radio -meaning- Anti-AM-&-FM-Radio -aka- the 'old' Media and promoting the "New" Media -meaning- anything Digital except IBOC. *. straight-talk from the heart of a 'free' over-the-air am & fm radio listener ~ RHF *.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - AM-HD is a bust - FM-HD to follow. |
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