Re: [IRCA] Radio's Digital Dilemma

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

I am pretty sure that KDLG 670 Dillingham, Alaska is IBOC.

Around 2007 or so they put in a new 10,000 Watt transmitter that was
HD/IBOC capable. Why you ask? They got a trant and it had to be for an HD
transmitter and it was use it or lose it.

Now, just because they have it, doesnt mean it's turned on.. I haven't
asked them in awhile if they're still using it.

In 2010, KDLG made history by becoming the first radio broadcaster in North
America to broadcast over a Modulation-Dependent Carrier
Level<http://www.nautel.com/resources/articles/multiple-customers-mdcl-huge-success/>
(MDCL)
transmitter. Since being installed, the Nautel XR transmitter has saved
KDLG thousands of dollars in operating costs. (
http://www.nautel.com/resources/articles/multiple-customers-mdcl-huge-success/
)

Paul


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Someone wanted info on IBOC stations a while back.  I checked the Alaskans
> while here in Masset and could find none still using.  Far less now than in
> past DXpeditions here, which is great.  I'm only hearing a couple of lower
> 48 stations causing a nuisance now.  Can someone post a list of Alaskan
> IBOCers for me.  My list is from 2011-2012.  73,  Walt
>
> On Wednesday, January 1, 2014, Barry McLarnon wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Barry McLarnon  Ottawa, ON
> >
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