Re: [IRCA] Radio's Digital Dilemma

[Chuck Hutton <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>]

And would I be correct to assume there has been no new adaptor of AM IBOC in say 3 or 4 years? If so, I'll round this off and say half of the IBOC soldiers have suffered mortal wounds and the other half have numbered days.
 
Let's tell 'em "We told you so", Barry. Or better put, they never had enough technical ammo to make the fight win-able, so all we had to do was wait for them to surrender when the market said "so what?" to AM IBOC.
 
Chuck
 
> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 21:16:53 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Radio's Digital Dilemma
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> 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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