Re: [IRCA] Here it Comes....FCC To Release IBOC Rules Next Week

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Bill Harms <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pat:
> 
> I have also noticed that many stations which were stalwarts on AM are
> 
> now focusing on FM.  Even our old time friend KSL is emphasizing its 
> FM over the AM.  There are countless other stations doing the same 
> thing.  Maybe AM is indeed dying.  IBOC would only hasten the end.
> 


AM has been in a slow death spiral for decades. First the music went to
FM, then AM Stereo was unveiled in such a way as to preclude success,
then AM sound quality was degraded by the over-manipulations of audio
by some stations and the cost-cutting and low quality of AM receivers 
then the religious boadcasters discovered FM translators and took much
of their programming to FM, and now we'll have nighttime IBOC.

Either IBOC will fail miserably in the market like AM Stereo did or it
will hasten the alrady downhill slope.


Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop


 
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