Re: [IRCA] HD Radio - WGN response

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Their response is the typical big corporate cop-out that some other stations 
are receiving. They were prepared for DXers and listeners to scream about 
IBOC interferrence and this is their stock answer.

How digital is enhancing anyone's enjoyment of WGN is beyond me, and I 
bet(am not sure) it isn't even a 100% lock in downtown Chicago due to 
building attenuation.

Again, my point to be made, if IBOC on HD-AM or whatever you want to call it 
was a major improvement to AM, I'd be all for it, and even more so if it 
didn't mess up two adjacent channels (or more if very close to you).

HDTV is a major improvement in video quality and doesn't mess up an adjacent 
channel to the extent AM and FM IBOC do, so I am all for HDTV and consider 
it an improvement, but on AM...what a useless waste of money, and almost no 
listeners seem to care.

The proper way to approach WGN is not as a DXer but as a Cubs fan as the 
Tribune owns both.

73 KAZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DXERak@xxxxxxx>
To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] HD Radio - WGN response


>
> In a message dated 9/24/2007 3:20:55 PM Central Daylight Time,
> wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>>>     I rather thought the following  sentence was all at once a concise
> summary of the situation, and also as  much of an expression of resigned
> disagreement with  it...   "The broadcast industry and the FCC have 
> decided
> that  it is more
> important to enhance AM and FM radio listening with  digital technology 
> than
> it
> is to maintain skywave service to areas that are  far away from a 
> station's
> core
> listening area."   <<
>
>
>
> My reaction exactly, too, Russ! We should all remember that WGN filed a
> comment on FCC Docket 99-325 in 2004, urging that tests continue on 
> nighttime
> IBOC and in the meantime asking that its hours be restricted. I  think 
> there is
> very little disagreement that WGN is one of those AM's with a  large 
> following
> via skywave, and that they did not want that to end without a  good
> understanding of if the system was going to work.
> 73     Bill Dvorak     Madison  WI
>
>
>

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