Re: [IRCA] Radio Show: FCC to Act on AM

[Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>]

Totally agree Russ.  This is what happens when 'business interests' take over from 'public service', which is where 'radio' started -- a business serving the public interest on a regulated medium.

My father, who worked as a CE for WILS for 25 years used to say, in its heyday, getting a radio license was like being given a license to print money.  Times have changed.

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On Sep 19, 2013, at 7:04 PM, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Seems to me that if you relax protection requirements, relax stringency of patterns, and so on, that's exactly what you do. 
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> You increase the mutual interference, and the result is LESS coverage for everyone, not MORE.
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> Russ Edmunds
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> From: James Renfrew <jim.renfrew@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Radio Show: FCC to Act on AM
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> Nothing about IBOC destroying adjacent channels.  Reducing nighttime
> restrictions (pattern, power) will end up with most stations having a tiny
> coverage pattern, and everything outside of it will be mush.  Seems like
> the nighttime restrictions are already optional for many stations.  Jim
> Renfrew, Holley NY
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> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Dennis Gibson <wb6tnb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> http://www.radioworld.com/article/radio-show-fcc-to-act-on-am/221499
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