Re: [IRCA] IBOC battle begins

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

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


> 
> There's another way to look at this - it's the free market taking its
> course. If 24-hour IBOC service is valuable enough to the owners of
> WBZ, 
> let's say, to justify paying WYSL's price for silence, then why 
> shouldn't those two parties be able to freely set a price and make
> their transaction?
> 

*** Except that it isn't and never was. When there is political
manipulation of the process, blatant disregard for any impartial test
results, willful interference and probable violation of international
treaties, the only place there's a free market so to speak is in the
after-effects.


> This is nothing really new - look at the AM signals that were bought
> out 
> and taken off the air so WWRL 1600 New York could upgrade a decade or
> so 
> ago, for instance. Or look at WOWO/WLIB.
> 

*** True enough - if WYSL is willing to sell and if WBZ's owners are
willing to put up that kind of money. But bottom line remains that this
is an entirely put-up job.



Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
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<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
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