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ibiquity AM hybrid digital radio provides little consumer benefits
The Ibiquity AM hybrid digital radio scheme provides little consumer
benefits. In fact, it destroys the character, versatility, variety and utility that has been associated with AM Broadcasting since its inception 100 years ago. In any part of the country and with an inexpensive radio and internal loop antenna you can find a variety of programming, local and national news, weather, ethnic music, financial shows, political talk shows of all types and tons of other stuff. It requires no more technology than what you have in your house or car right now. Standard AM radios easily pick up stations from nearby counties, cities, and towns making listening even more versatile. At night it gets even more interesting. Radio wave propagation through the ionosphere gives the listener a constant variety of programming from cities hundreds or even thousands of miles away all with the same inexpensive radio. Nothing wrong here. Now, along come some very dubious characters that call themselves iBiquity (whatever that’s supposed to represent). This nefarious, for profit, company convinces the Government and investors that they have a better system (which is licensed by them and only them I might add). This new system gives “FM quality” to AM radio they claim. But what they don’t say is that it will totally destroy existing AM radio as we know it. With strong-arm tactics and FCC blessing they go about trying to force the broadcasting world to convert to their for-profit system. With this conversion consumers start to lose and big business wins. Along with “FM quality” you lose the character and versatility that comes with the elegant simplicity of AM radio that has served people so well for so long. Gone will be the days of hearing stations the next city or state over. Gone will be the day of using an inexpensive radio to get local news and weather. What you will have is a relatively expensive clunky digital radio system that is lucky to receive stations 20 miles away with any consistency that is designed to eventually squeeze out any local stations. And forget about FM quality – it’s just not there in spite of what iBiquity claims. AM radio still retains some of the character we are all losing in this so-called high tech society. To allow a for-profit company like iBiquity steal it away is a crime. For a government agency to allow this to happen is absolutely criminal. |
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