A few more thoughts about IBOC...
1. A cleaner signal in a digital format will be pointless if programming has no more fidelity than Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh and a host of preachers. No fideliity is required for that.
2. The ownership that is pushing the most for IBOC is more suited for satellite broadcasting than terrestrial, as their program content is significantly more of a syndicated nature.
3. People will not buy expensive radios for their home if they can (a) flip on digital cable and get 100 channels of content; (b) flip on XM/Sirius and get 100 channels of content; (c) flip on their iPod and get their personally-selected content; (d) turn on their Media Center PC and get both music and movies from their own collection.
4. Auto manufacturers are already under significant pressure to keep costs down. The expensive addition of something no more significant than a "new-fangled" radio will likely result in radios not being offered as standard fare...only being offered as an option. The buyer who selects the radio option will surely not see the latest edition of AM as being worth-while...they will go for the CD changer, or will more likely go after-market instead.
In summary, ugh!
Mike Hawkins
N0UIHEric@xxxxxxx wrote:
The same thing will happen to FM, too...if the morally bankrupt corporations like Clear Channel keeps running them into the ground. AM should be used for high-powered broadcasting, like in Europe, and to relay international broadcasters (such as Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands and Radio Japan) to U.S. audiences.
73, Eric (N0UIH)
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