Re: [IRCA] am iboc

["Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am a member too, as a broadcaster and DX'er.. and not afraid to admit
it!:)

On Nov 15, 2007 11:26 AM, Stewart, Joseph R <RandyStewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> My chief engineer forwarded this to me (apparently from Radio World's
> website)
>
> 'Anti' IBOC Alliance Membership Grows
> by Leslie Stimson, 11.14.2007
> (Leslie Stimson is the News Editor and Washington Bureau Chief for Radio
> World.)
>
> WYSL owner Bob Savage says he has more than 90 members for his new
> anti-IBOC alliance which I mentioned in my last post.
>
> None wished to be identified by name.
>
> "For the most part these people are not bomb-throwing reactionaries but
> are radio pros who are genuinely concerned about IBOC's adverse effects
> on AM radio," he tells me. The entries also include "many accounts of
> serious interference" he says.
>
> There are a few DXers, ham operators and other "civilians" among that
> group; however, he said, the majority are broadcasters who represent a
> cross-section "from the small-market guys all the way to major-market 50
> kW AM stations."
>
> One anonymous "confessional entry," he says, "loses sleep over being
> forced by management to install HD-AM, which he regards as an ethical
> transgression, because it generates harmful interference. He's certain
> that if his name and station got out he would lose his job."
>
> Randy Stewart
> Arts Producer, KSMU
> Missouri State University
> Springfield MO
>
>
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