You heard right!
Jet whoosh noise an apt description. Imagine AM and FM filled with it. ClearChannel and 'partner' Ibiquity propose this magic elixir to 'save AM radio'. Disingenuous 90's doggerel.
Eric is right on. Digital fine above 1 GHz. Why should FCC even bother requiring minimum signal levels over broadcast areas so as to assure listener coverage? Moot, thanks to this cacophonous jalopy driven by 90's crony-capitalist inebriates in need of a breathalyzer. In rare moments of candor, I/CC admits AM coverage will be reduced to forty miles. What an achievement!
Conversely, why should radio manufacturers bother producing quality sets? DX-398, ICF-2010, SR-III, myriad others have good sensitivity. IBOC negates this, reducing sets' to pulling endless glops of jet-noise - except from Clear Channel & 'partners' - in same manner that one with terminal streptococcal sinusitis can only pull yellow glops from their nose.
Undersigned worthless correspondent is suspended from another bulletin board whose moderator can't tell allusion from comparison, claims they're 'in charge & bow to no one', yet makes my point. Clear Channel participants were 'offended' by this scribe's commentary style, i.e. pithy, boorish, pedantic, verbose, and proudly pig-ignorant.
One board contributor expressed it beautifully, to wit: Castro's stations jam by producing spurs, heterodynes, hums, wobbles, etc. He should just go IBOC. Well said, Hr. K.
Interference is what is offensive. What to do? Radio World reads of late like IBOC house organ. Good intel source. Next move? IBOC goes to Wall St. wooing investors. Anything stopping us from expressing our concerns? Let's do it. And as Patrick says, write stations we no longer enjoy thanks to this noxious contrivance. Let's cut these snake oil hawkers off at the pass.
It's talent that grabs listeners, not more 'feelies'. For couple years, Clear Channel earnings are up but listeners are down. Says it all. They'll continue to drop as long as they ignore the human element in favor of more techno-sludgery. Same blood tick bit the intel community during 90's, with lovely results. There's lots of great talent out there, and it doesn't dump noxious pink-noise pig-pig trash all over the spectrum.
Everything one need know about this can be discerned by examining carefully the promo photos of Ibiquity and Clear Channel personnel. The eyes have it, to which stance attests.
Trashily,
-Z.-
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasoviet Key, FL
22 2343Z MAY 05
BT
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