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Re: [IRCA] IBOC battle begins
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] IBOC battle begins
- From: Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:22:31 -0500
John Cereghin wrote:
> On 11/5/07, Craig Healy <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If the FCC and the courts refuse to intervene, and Congress
>> likewise sidesteps it, I think we'll see a number of stations
>> simply fold. I was speaking to a fellow who does a lot of IBOC
>> work. One comment he made was that there are a lot of stations
>> "that shouldn't be on the air". Maybe so, but it's not iBiquity's
>> job to silence them.<<<
>
> Man, if that isn't an arrogant attitude on the part of the IBOC boys,
> then I don't know what is. The Industry could get into a huge,
> drawn out discussion about who "deserves" to be on the air and who
> doesn't and who really is "serving" their community and who isn't.
There's another way to look at this - it's the free market taking its
course. If 24-hour IBOC service is valuable enough to the owners of WBZ,
let's say, to justify paying WYSL's price for silence, then why
shouldn't those two parties be able to freely set a price and make their
transaction?
This is nothing really new - look at the AM signals that were bought out
and taken off the air so WWRL 1600 New York could upgrade a decade or so
ago, for instance. Or look at WOWO/WLIB.
For every WSNJ, which is indeed a great local station, there are
probably a dozen AMs just barely limping along with minimal
listenership, whose owners might welcome a chance to cash out and to
clean up some of the interference on the dial in the process.
Of course, this would only "solve" one piece of the AM IBOC issue, and
not even the most critical one. It does nothing to fix the bashing that
the big clears inflict on one another - Citadel's not going to pay
itself to take WJR silent at night to allow WABC to run digital, or vice
versa. And it can't fix the international treaty issues - WBZ might be
able to buy off WYSL, but it can't do that for CJMS.
s
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