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Future of radio becoming a lot less fuzzy
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...inment/3277086
Interesting article about High Definition radio. The article ends with the following quote: "...eventually, stations will broadcast only digitally -- Stearn says that point probably won't be reached for 15 years -- and every radio you now own will become a useless relic that you'll try to unload on eBay." Before you start selling all your analog radios, please understand that the speaker of the quote was Vicki Stearn, a spokesman for iBiquity, whose future depends upon HD radio becoming popular. My guess is that analog radio will outlive iBiquity. |
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:38:19 -0400, "lsmyer"
wrote: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...inment/3277086 Interesting article about High Definition radio. The article ends with the following quote: "...eventually, stations will broadcast only digitally -- Stearn says that point probably won't be reached for 15 years -- and every radio you now own will become a useless relic that you'll try to unload on eBay." Before you start selling all your analog radios, please understand that the speaker of the quote was Vicki Stearn, a spokesman for iBiquity, whose future depends upon HD radio becoming popular. My guess is that analog radio will outlive iBiquity. IBOC was the dumbest idea ever. The NAB didn't want a regular DAB type infrastructure because it meant every station had equal facilities. Dumb asses. Now they have 250 new competitors in every single market due to SDARS. |
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And then there's the damned LARRS. By the time the KJIO distributed
their EEW materials to UUYPOO, almost ever RROLP in North America had gone over to the IIU. I was so disgusted, I wrote a letter to the JJKKL. Steve |
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So long as we're talking about satellite radio, you needn't bother to
explain. Steve |
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David wrote: On 25 Jul 2005 12:01:43 -0700, wrote: And then there's the damned LARRS. By the time the KJIO distributed their EEW materials to UUYPOO, almost ever RROLP in North America had gone over to the IIU. I was so disgusted, I wrote a letter to the JJKKL. Steve Mr. Antenna Fetishist; SDARS is the official FCC acronym for what is generically called ''satellite radio''. Take you SDARS outta here, 'tard boy... Go tote it. dxAce Michigan USA http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm |
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Oh, thos iBoc folks..............I called them about a year ago, asking them
about their system. When they explained the virtues of their system, and what a good deal it was, I asked them how they were going to handle the multipath effects of evening propagation. I also explained to them that I didn't thing it was such a good for people to actually have to pay money out of their own pockets for a system that actually takes three channels of spectrum space for one of their transmissions. They never did respond to my e-mail. I guess they didn't have an answer. Might have been too busy paying Vicki Stearn. Pete "lsmyer" wrote in message ... http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...inment/3277086 Interesting article about High Definition radio. The article ends with the following quote: "...eventually, stations will broadcast only digitally -- Stearn says that point probably won't be reached for 15 years -- and every radio you now own will become a useless relic that you'll try to unload on eBay." Before you start selling all your analog radios, please understand that the speaker of the quote was Vicki Stearn, a spokesman for iBiquity, whose future depends upon HD radio becoming popular. My guess is that analog radio will outlive iBiquity. |
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"Pete KE9OA" wrote in message ... Oh, thos iBoc folks..............I called them about a year ago, asking them about their system. When they explained the virtues of their system, and what a good deal it was, I asked them how they were going to handle the multipath effects of evening propagation. I also explained to them that I didn't thing it was such a good for people to actually have to pay money out of their own pockets for a system that actually takes three channels of spectrum space for one of their transmissions. They never did respond to my e-mail. I guess they didn't have an answer. Might have been too busy paying Vicki Stearn. Pete For the time being, AM IBOC stations are turning off their noise machines during the night. I'm sure they don't intend that to be permanent. It's curious that the FCC reduced the AM bandwidth to reduce interference when they increased the number of stations allowed. Now they're allowing this ultrawide band system to pollute the spectrum. Frank Dresser |
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"lsmyer" wrote in message ... http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...inment/3277086 Interesting article about High Definition radio. The article ends with the following quote: "...eventually, stations will broadcast only digitally -- Stearn says that point probably won't be reached for 15 years -- and every radio you now own will become a useless relic that you'll try to unload on eBay." Before you start selling all your analog radios, please understand that the speaker of the quote was Vicki Stearn, a spokesman for iBiquity, whose future depends upon HD radio becoming popular. My guess is that analog radio will outlive iBiquity. Ever since Clear Channel went in big for IBOC, I've suspected broadcasters were really after the extra channels on the same license. The story sort of confirms it: "The big draw will be multicasting, the additional programming that digital technology creates: Every station now on the FM dial, whether commercial or public, will be able to add a second channel, and possibly a third." I suppose the same thing could be done with AM, two or three channels for each station, although I don't know if the current IBOC radios are capable of such multichannel reception. I don't know if ibiquity will fail. High fidelity broadcasting has been mostly one disappointment after another. But, if ibiquity has figured out a way for broadcasters to increase revenue, they will succeed. Frank |
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