"Booble" wrote in message
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On Jul 11, 8:59 pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
Eduardo - so, what do you thik about Struble sitting on the board of
CEA, with a vested interest,

The board of the CEa is made up of people in the consumer electonics
business. Everyone has a vested interest, but the CEA, like all trade
associations, works on those areas that are common interests just like the
NAB or the RIAA or the AMA.

I suspect
he is now too embarrassed, since the likes of Mark Ramsey just
discredit Bob's rants.

Mark Ramsey is a researcher, not an engineer. And like all of us, he has an
opinion. And like all of us, he is not always right.

For example, I thought HD would help AM survive, but several years more time
has shown that AM is too far gone to be saved by anything and is a lost
cause.

I also thought that FM HD would be useful and successful. But the timing of
the recession, the introduction of the PPM and the progress of things like
WiMax have likely relgated HD to the place of SCA's... useful for specialty
services, generally paid or brokered. Many radio metrics, from CPP to rates
to pay scales have been reset by virtue of all these factors EXCEPT HD... so
HD at the moment is extraneous and not at the top of anyone's mind.

I just can't wait for that fraud investigation - LOL!

Who cares? iBiquity's success or failure is not a day to day concern of
radio operators. If they did something wrong, their bad.... but the
technology will survive and create useful revenue streams for radio.

"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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For example, I thought HD would help AM survive, but several years more
time has shown that AM is too far gone to be saved by anything and is a
lost cause.

AM committed suicide by filling the band with clone stations spewing
Hannity/Noory/Limbaugh/sportstalk 24/7 so that you couldn't get rid of them
no matter how far you drove.

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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For example, I thought HD would help AM survive, but several years more
time has shown that AM is too far gone to be saved by anything and is a
lost cause.

AM committed suicide by filling the band with clone stations spewing
Hannity/Noory/Limbaugh/sportstalk 24/7 so that you couldn't get rid of
them no matter how far you drove.

Radio is local. It sells local spots, even for national clients. And whether
Noory is on in an adjacent market on another signal is irrelevant...
listeners don't listen in any measurable amount to anything but the
strongest local stations.

AM lost to FM in 1977. Limbaugh did not even go on a network feed for more
than a decade, and he is widely credited, along with Clear Channel, for
saving AM from extinction back then by bringing back interest in AM
stations. The numbers for AM in each market prove that point, if you want to
buy a copy of Jim Duncan's trending by station by market dating to 1975.