Re: [IRCA] Radio's Digital Dilemma

[Barry McLarnon <bm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/01/2014 08:34 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote:
> Do you have rough (or better) numbers for the number of AM stations transmitting IBOC at the peak and today? It seems there have been no new major users of IBOC since the initial phase, and a lot (half?) of the original supporters have turned it off and said "why bother?".

I haven't tracked the numbers over time, but they've been steadily 
declining for the past three or four years.  A total of about 310 AM 
stations have run IBOC at one time or another, but only about 175 (or 
maybe less) are still using it today.  Most of those are either owned by 
iBiquity investors, or their IBOC conversion was subsidized by the 
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

It's obviously an abject failure... unfortunately, it lingers on.

Barry

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Barry McLarnon  Ottawa, ON

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