Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC, from the broadcasters' mailing list

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

Craig,

Just my opinion, but I look forward to your opinions on IBOC and hope to 
continue to see them with regularity as part of the civil discourse which 
has been going on, IBOC is a highly relevant subject for a DX radio club as 
it threatens our hobbies' very existence as well as AM radio's existence 
period. I am learning a lot from reading these threads, I have a gut feeling 
that it is a disaster and is a small segment of radio trying to bully the 
larger part into accepting a technology that simply put is a sham, but you 
guys in broadcasting so much more elequently state your case,

Bob Young
Millbury, Ma
KB1OKL


>From: "Craig Healy" <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America"<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC,from the broadcasters'   
>   mailing list
>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:26:02 -0400
>
> > I think there's a significant and compelling business case to be made
> > for many, if not most, AM stations to avoid using IBOC. You've certainly
> > made that case, successfully, to your clients. That's likely, I think,
> > to mean the AM IBOC system isn't going to take off in the long run. (And
> > it belies, to an extent, the "great business conspiracy" theories being
> > promoted elsewhere in the thread; if the system is as great a failure as
> > predicted, the business case for abandoning it will be an easy one to
> > make.)
>
>Just to finish my side of the thread..
>
>If most AM stations avoid IBOC, then it will never make the transition to
>all digital, short of some governmental edict.  That in itself is unlikely
>due to many factors.  So, if only a few are running this temporary
>"transition" phase, they will interfere with others and cause a reduction 
>of
>coverage.  Then all the points I made are valid.  Potential lawsuits, IBOC
>stations becoming the skunk in the woods, the whole nine yards.  It cannot
>stay in transition mode forever.
>
>IBOC is meant to be an all or nothing scenario.  The bare minimum
>transitional coverage on both AM and FM will do nothing at all to promote
>it.  Quite the opposite.  The cutting edge Joe/Jane Average will in many
>cases simply return the "defective" radios, and then tell their friends.
>And it will end up on the same shelf as Quad and AM Stereo.  At least those
>two formats were innocuous.  I suppose the core error made here is iBiquity
>expecting that eventually all AM and FM would be digital only.  Ain't gonna
>happen.
>
>To be clear, I truly believe a move to digital transmission is highly
>desireable.  I have been a huge proponent of streaming, and wait anxiously
>for WiFi-enabled iPod devices that can receive it.  Analog will probably
>fade slowly over some number of decades.  If the RIAA/ASCAP/BMI/SESAC/AFTRA
>hadn't attacked streaming with such intensity it might have been a 
>different
>ball game already.  I am very glad to see legal action taken against the
>RIAA on their RICO-type activities.  Maybe streaming will again have a
>chance and they will end up leaving radio alone.
>
>I am done.  If I post again about IBOC in the near future, please send a
>cream pie at high velocity in my direction.
>
>Craig Healy
>Providence, RI
>
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