Re: [IRCA] How local IS WBZ?

["CHARLES HUTTON" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>]

Pat:

I'll have to disagree.

(1) All digital IBOC (assuming the same power as currently used for analog) 
will cover way more area than analog. "How much more" is the question. Can 
you point me to any technical analysis that says all digital IBOC will have 
less coverage?

(2) There's nothing in the IBOC definition that allows or even has a 
mechanism to prevent a user from listening to any particular channel based 
on the user's location. You're allowed to listen to any  and all IBOC 
channels you can receive.


Chuck


>From: mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)
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>Subject: Re: [IRCA] How local IS WBZ?
>Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:29:15 -0700
>
>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
>
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