[IRCA] on the second night of IBOC...

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

While trolling for high school football cheaters last evening, I can't say 
the presence of post-sunset IBOC made much of a difference.  The only IBOC 
noise I noted was a slight hiss under WJR-760, presumably from WABC-770. 
WLS-890 IBOC didn't cream the Yankees game on WCBS-880. If WTAM-1100 was 
running IBOC, I didn't notice any hash on 1090 or 1110.  Fortunately none of 
the Buffalo or Niagara Falls, NY stations are using IBOC, so I don't have 
any IBOC groundwavers such as WGR-550 or WBEN-930 to deal with.  At least 
not yet.

Can hardly wait for CFRB to get complaints from outside the Toronto city 
limits that they're getting hammered by IBOC crud from WMVP-1000 or 
KDKA-1020.  I've said it before, folks.. AM IBOC is a digital dinosaur right 
out of the box.  It will fail and fail miserably by the turn of the decade. 
The few people who still listen to AM for ethnic programs, sports, Disney, 
Limbaugh or Jesus don't need alleged "CD quality" or "HD".  It's a fix for a 
problem that doesn't exist.  It's THE MARKET!  ALMOST NO ONE IS BUYING THE 
IBOC RADIOS!  At some point, the suits at iBquity will have to get that into 
their collective thick skulls.


73

Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON 

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