"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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"dxAce" wrote in message
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Fractured? WBBM's IBOC (QRM) signal renders 790 unlistenable here.

Most likely the 790 signal is not supposed to cover your area with a
listenable (and thus protected) signal. If you are referring to the 790
in Saginaw, it is not protected to Grand Rapids.

That's reality, no matter which way you decide to slice, dice, or spin
it.

Yep, radio is moving on. You aren't.

That's where you're wrong. We are moving on. But not to your QRM
generating three channel wide garbage that it takes a $300 radio to hear
at all (and that's only if you have a large antenna or are within sight of
the towers). We're moving on to Ogg-Vorbis, mp3, etc., where we can
provide our own selections of music for hours on end, and without your 15
minutes plus of commercials per hour, and without paying $13 a month for a
sketchy satellite signal. Radio is dying, it's commiting slow suicide. Sad
to see it happening, when I was growing up, radio served it's audience..
now it only serves itself, and does a **** poor job of even that.


Addendum:

As a former broadcast engineer myself, I would have been ashamed of creating
interference to another station, no matter whether it was in our supposed
'market' or not. In Portland, a LOT of people listen to stations outside
the market. Stations from Salem, Hillsboro, and even The Dalles are quite
popular and can (or at least COULD) be heard easily in most parts of town
(well, the station in The Dalles mainly in east and northeast areas). The
point really should not be whether a statistically large portion of a market
listens to rimshots or even DX, the point should be good engineering
practices. IBOC is not a good engineering practice.