[BC] QUESTION FOR THE "MIND" MASSES

[Dave Schreyer]

How do you explain the necessity of IBOC for an AM talk radio station? Isn't
digital radio better served for those
stations who play music? What a wonderfully DUMB idea to have high tech with
AM talk radio! Since when does
talk radio on AM need the fancy high tech quality of IBOC? Who cares about
why...its ludicrous!


Dave Schreyer
Broadcast Historian
Minnesota
http://www.twinportsbroadcasting.com 
http://twinportsmedia.blogspot.com

TOM SAID:

Message: 13
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:16:16 -0500
From: Tom Dimeo <mwamdx at earthlink.net>
Subject: [BC] WABC Going IBOC
To: broadcast at radiolists.net
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This morning while scanning the AM dial I tuned across WABC 
and they were discussing that next year WABC will start 
transmitting in digital.  There seemed to be the implication 
that the station would be heard further away and in buildings 
where it now can not be heard.

The comment was made that WABC sounds very good in analog and 
it will sound even better in digital.  There was no mention 
that when they transmit digital the sound of the analog will 
decrease.

Wonder what WABC's IBOC will do to the coverage of WAEB 790 
Allentown.

Tom