Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Re: [NRC-AM] Re: Here it Comes....FCC To Release IBOC RulesNext Week

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think the message is with listeners to radio is no one knows and no
> one cares. This will be a flop as much as Quad was....
> 


This is a flaw in the iBiquity non-marketing strategy because the
public is and will continue to be massively indifferent. People will
not go for HD radio receivers, so HD on AM will likely fail in the
marketplace.

Current AM listeners will either continue to listen to their stronger
local stations in analog as long as there is analog. When/if analog
goes away it will be too late because those listeners will go somewhere
else.

And the portion of the IBOC-enabling rules which seek to preclude suits
by stations will also likely fall inasmuch as it is a unilateral
contract where all of the power is in iBiquity's hands; and also as it
violates due process.






Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop


 
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