Re: [IRCA] article on IBOC

[Barry McLarnon <bm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/01/2013 03:00 PM, Craig Healy wrote:
> Now if only WBZ-1030 in Boston, MA drops IBOC, there will be some 
> happier adjacent stations.  1020 Pittsburg, PA and 1040 in upstate NY.
Don't hold your breath for that one.  WBZ is a CBS station, and the head 
engineering honcho of CBS is one Glynn Walden, formerly of Ibiquity.  
CBS is a major investor in Ibiquity and its predecessors, and it's only 
a slight exaggeration to refer to Walden as the Father of IBOC.  WBZ 
will never drop IBOC while he has any influence at CBS.

That upstate NY 1040 station, WYSL, filed a formal and well-documented 
interference complaint against WBZ way back in 2007 (I helped out by 
providing an engineering report describing the nature of the 
interference).  It fell on deaf ears at the FCC, and no action at all 
was taken.  Big money talks, and the FCC listens. WYSL finally had to 
resort to getting an FM translator to sidestep the interference problem.

Barry

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Barry McLarnon  Ottawa, ON

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