[BC] QUESTION FOR THE "MIND" MASSES

[Mike McCarthy]

While I don't agree with present day IBOC AM in general, your question is 
easy to answer.

It's not what we're doing today.  Its for what we WILL be doing next year 
or sometime down the road. Who knows, music may make a comeback on AM when 
the time comes.  Digital only signals will make that possible and many 
interference issues common in analog will go away in digital when all 
digital comes to be in 10 or so years.  Severely overlapping DA's on 2nd 
and 3rd adjacents will no longer be a problem.

The last thing managers/owners want to hear is something <can't> be done. 
Especially if there was an opportunity to address the condition years 
before and the wallets were open AND there was time to make it happen.

MM

At 06:28 PM 12/6/2005 -0600, Dave Schreyer wrote

>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
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>TOM SAID:
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>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
>Message-ID: <3.0.6.16.20051206111616.2b87b2c0 at pop.earthlink.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
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