Re: [IRCA] How local IS WBZ?

[mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)]

Russ & Chuck,

As several CEs have told me, the plan is to do away with analog totally
in time. Then the listener would pretty much be stuck to listen to their
local station, as the coverage of IBOC is much less than analog. Sitting
in our houuse, or driving in our car, listening to San Francisco or LA
at night from Oregon or Washington would not be possible with IBOC, so
we would have to listen to what is local or maybe semi local at best. As
with TV today, in most cases you are not allowed to subscribe to receive
a NY station if you live in Portland OR. The rules are there to protect
the Portland stations. They call the shots. If you live in a "White"
area, the rules are more relaxed, but most people live in metro areas,
so they are told what they can view on TV. The same is planned for AM/FM
radio. Since the powers that be cannot control "skip", they will control
the method the transmission. But with radio, we do have many other
venues, Short Wave, etc. But it is a "control" issue. and selling that
valuable advertising time. Think about it. If 100% of radio listeners in
LA or SF are listening to local stations, the ratings go up and so does
the advertising revenue. Money once again calls the shots.   If you live
lets say in LA, the stations there do not want you to listen to any
stations outside the market. The LA stations lose out if you are not
listening to their ads in the LA market. They want to control that. But
as your average DXer, I doubt many will give in to this. We will find
other ways around it. But this is what I have been told by several in
the industry.
What David Gleasen said earlier goes along the same route too. Welcome
to the 21st Century. In the midst of all of this, is our DXing that
takes a toll too. I am just hoping and praying that IBOC dies before it
gets a chance to affect our hobby too much. 
Just my 2 cents worth. 

73,

Patrick

Patrick Martin

Come to Seaside Oregon for the 2006 IRCA Convention! It will be held at
the Comfort Inn on September 22-24,2006.

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