[SMSbuster]

"Ibiquity's "Gag Order" on engineers"

"This was documented in another thread. I've encountered this before
in my career. Usually - it was to protect some "golden boy" - maybe
the boss's nephew or something. Anybody daring to demonstrate that
golden boy was incompetant was ushered out the door in short order.
Or - when golden boy inevitably goofed up - the one who pointed out
his mistakes was deemed the one to blame. Other times, a gag order is
because there is a lot of money to be made - by somebody powerful.
Everybody knows the project will fail, but they are told to keep quiet
until somebody has cashed in their stock options and left. I have
heard of cases where physical harm was implied to anybody who spoke
out too soon. HD radio has all the earmarks of the second scenario.
Since there was a gag order - you can bet there are technical issues
we haven't even heard about yet. Ibiquity - you can stick a fork in
them, they are DONE. At some point, the people in the company with
the most to gain financially are going to sell their stock and retire
somewhere exotic, out of reach of US law. Their legacy? Broadcast
bands in shambles, radio manufacturers with warehouses full of unsold
HD radios, stations with an orphan system that is unsupported.
Listeners with buzzing in their ears. But - it will have made a few
people very rich. Shouldn't we all be happy about that?!"

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/ind...?topic=79682.0

"WJR has dropped IBOC!!"

"A couple of my station are running IBOC, and with what we paid to
Ibiquity for the 'right' to use their technology, plus what we spent
on the new equipment and what we spent in time and money making the AM
directional array IBOC compatible, it would be throwing away lots of
money to just turn it off. As much as I hate doing it, I also run
IBOC at night. When Ibiquity was checking markets, they called me and
asked why I wasn't running it at night. Our contract says blah, blah
blah,... So, it runs at night. Believe me, if I could go back and do
it all over again, I never would have bought into it in the first
place. However, the damage is done. If Ibiquity read this and got my
true identity, they would probably sue over my comments. They are THAT
petty. I am already forbidden against saying anything negative to the
press about it. Why oh why did we sign that?"

http://antiqueradios.com/forums/view...3f2858a569aafa

[Radio Pro]

how old is this doument from 2007?

non-disclosure and non-competes "gag-orders" are the norm in this kind of
work.

nothing out of the ordinary


"SMSbuster" wrote in message
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"Ibiquity's "Gag Order" on engineers"

"This was documented in another thread. I've encountered this before
in my career. Usually - it was to protect some "golden boy" - maybe
the boss's nephew or something. Anybody daring to demonstrate that
golden boy was incompetant was ushered out the door in short order.
Or - when golden boy inevitably goofed up - the one who pointed out
his mistakes was deemed the one to blame. Other times, a gag order is
because there is a lot of money to be made - by somebody powerful.
Everybody knows the project will fail, but they are told to keep quiet
until somebody has cashed in their stock options and left. I have
heard of cases where physical harm was implied to anybody who spoke
out too soon. HD radio has all the earmarks of the second scenario.
Since there was a gag order - you can bet there are technical issues
we haven't even heard about yet. Ibiquity - you can stick a fork in
them, they are DONE. At some point, the people in the company with
the most to gain financially are going to sell their stock and retire
somewhere exotic, out of reach of US law. Their legacy? Broadcast
bands in shambles, radio manufacturers with warehouses full of unsold
HD radios, stations with an orphan system that is unsupported.
Listeners with buzzing in their ears. But - it will have made a few
people very rich. Shouldn't we all be happy about that?!"

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/ind...?topic=79682.0

"WJR has dropped IBOC!!"

"A couple of my station are running IBOC, and with what we paid to
Ibiquity for the 'right' to use their technology, plus what we spent
on the new equipment and what we spent in time and money making the AM
directional array IBOC compatible, it would be throwing away lots of
money to just turn it off. As much as I hate doing it, I also run
IBOC at night. When Ibiquity was checking markets, they called me and
asked why I wasn't running it at night. Our contract says blah, blah
blah,... So, it runs at night. Believe me, if I could go back and do
it all over again, I never would have bought into it in the first
place. However, the damage is done. If Ibiquity read this and got my
true identity, they would probably sue over my comments. They are THAT
petty. I am already forbidden against saying anything negative to the
press about it. Why oh why did we sign that?"

http://antiqueradios.com/forums/view...3f2858a569aafa

[bpnjensen]

On Mar 14, 12:22*pm, "Radio Pro" wrote:
how old is this doument from 2007?

non-disclosure and non-competes "gag-orders" are the norm in this kind of
work.

nothing out of the ordinary

Gag me with a spoon.

Just because it's common doesn't make it ethical.

[D Peter Maus[_2_]]

On 3/14/11 15:07 , bpnjensen wrote:
On Mar 14, 12:22 pm, "Radio wrote:
how old is this doument from 2007?

non-disclosure and non-competes "gag-orders" are the norm in this kind of
work.

nothing out of the ordinary

Gag me with a spoon.

Just because it's common doesn't make it ethical.



Gag clauses are indeed common in the biz. They cover trade secrets
and internal proprietary intellectual property.

If, "It doesn't work as as promised," is either a trade secret, or
internal proprietary intellectual property, the company, itself, is in
very deep do-do.

A user of a product, such as a radio station engineer, who uses a
product, such as iBiquity's IBOC Hybrid Digital transmission system, who
is precluded under pain of litigation from expressing an opinion about
how well the system does or does not work, is not in the public interest.

[dave]

On 3/14/2011 1:07 PM, bpnjensen wrote:
On Mar 14, 12:22 pm, "Radio wrote:
how old is this doument from 2007?

non-disclosure and non-competes "gag-orders" are the norm in this kind of
work.

nothing out of the ordinary

Gag me with a spoon.

Just because it's common doesn't make it ethical.

It doesn't?

[bpnjensen]

On Mar 14, 3:30*pm, dave wrote:
On 3/14/2011 1:07 PM, bpnjensen wrote:

On Mar 14, 12:22 pm, "Radio *wrote:
how old is this doument from 2007?

non-disclosure and non-competes "gag-orders" are the norm in this kind of
work.

nothing out of the ordinary

Gag me with a spoon.

Just because it's common doesn't make it ethical.

It doesn't?

Of course, what WAS I thinking? :-D