Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC, from the broadcasters' mailing list

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> There is no such advantage to be gained from forcing stations in the 
> existing AM and FM bands to go all-digital. Absent that, there's no 
> motivation for a forced conversion.
> 
> It's simply not an issue that's on the table right now in any of the 
> industry circles in which I travel.
> 
> Could it happen 10 or 20 years out? I suppose it's possible, but as
> wise 
> heads like Harry Helms will be happy to tell you, the odds are pretty
> 
> good that so much of the content-delivery mechanism will have changed
> by 
> then, it won't even matter if and when it happens.
> 
> Harry's absolutely right: the action's in things like audio delivery
> to 
> cellphones, not in a technological detour like the AM IBOC system.
> 


*** The idea of the FCC someday mandating digital means different
things depending on your timeframe. Could it occur way down the road ?
Sure - and there could be an entirely different dynamic from what there
is now, so I'd never say never. Is it likely to occur as an outgrowth
of the current situation ? I'd say it's unlikely, simply because the
way the cards lie now, I doubt most of the large owners would be
backing that once they've experienced firsthand the public indifference
to AM HD.

And all of the above could be moot if terrestrial radio as we now know
it has died in the meantime because the next new better thing really
was.



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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