Re: [IRCA] Another Blight on the AM Landscape

[Milspec390@xxxxxxx]

Might WWVA have gone iBLOC to avoid  cancellation troubles w/iNiquity? 

Ancient History, Chapter  9832 - President Nixon closed many New England Navy 
bases following  '72 reelection for old & tiresome reasons.
 
   Prior to AUG '74 closure, Naval Auxilliary Landing Field,  Charlestown, 
Rhode Island's three runways were  repaved to avoid  harsh contractual penalties.
 
  This pleased the Swells who summered adjacent to NALF  Charlietown - no 
more droning S-2F's would e'er again darken their seaside  soirees.
 
  Incorrigible gearheads including undersigned scribbling  dingbat delighted 
as well -  three long smooth drag strips upon  which to field test MOPAR 383's 
& similar eco-insensitive cars.
 
 Did WQXR classics onna Chrysler AM make going transonic all the  more 
memorable? Why yes, they did.
 
 Whither iBLOC? Will it go the way of NALF Charlietown? Or, given  the new 
regime's affinity for the Command Economy and  congenital yearning for the 
control it yields, will iBLOC rise yet again -  to the pleasure of a few and 
disheartening of many?

Time will  tell.
 
                                                                              
                      z
 
pv zecchino
manalog key, fl
 
"They're out of sight and out of mind at Charlietown."
                            - Lt. Cdr. H.L.S,
                              NAS Quonset Pt., ca. 1974
 
 
In a message dated 12/24/2008 12:36:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
donutbandit@xxxxxxxxx writes:

IBOC is  dying a slow, painful death, so why would another 50 kw station
start it  up? I read the Usenet group rec.radio.shortwave daily. 2 of IBOC's
biggest  supporters post there, and people are constantly telling them what a
joke  it is. Somebody went to Circuit City and couldn't find a single radio
in  the place that was IBOC compatible. Ibiquity is losing money hand  over
fist.

The FCC is about to be overhauled for shady dealings.  Certainly this IBOC
scam is part of it. The best thing that could happen is  that it is declared
illegal, as it should be, and shut down forever. If  not, it is dying anyway.
In 2 years or so, it will be a part of  history.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Craig Healy  
<bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> > A lump of West  Virginia coal in your Christmas stocking, courtesy of
> > the folks  at Clear Channel... yep, WWVA-1170 in Wheeling is now
> > running  IBOC.  Another Class A station spewing kilowatts of noise on
> >  the adjacent channels.  Ugh.  When are they going to wise up to  the
> > fact that this was a terrible idea?
>
> Well, in  some small way it's payback for WHAM-1180.  Let them hiss each
>  other into oblivion.  Fortunately I never listen to either, and  those
> channels aren't all that useful around here.
>
>  Craig Healy
> Providence, RI
>
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Weed,  CA
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