[BC] Survey says....

[DANA PUOPOLO]

I have an even better idea....

Kick the under a dozen DTV stations off of channels 5 and 6 and give these to
the AM's.  Even better, use 100 khz spacing, 25 or 35 kHz deviation and
compansion in the L-R (just like TV stereo). Remember the FM2 proposal? It
made great technical sense, but 220 Mhz was a bad place to put it. Channels 5
and 6 are the perfect place!

Or, put the digital radio band there.

In either case, allow the AM's to migrate there. Instead of clogging the AM
band up with IBAC crud, why not CLEAN it up by getitng a few thousand stations
OFF of MW?

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:10:40 PM PST
From: Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Survey says....

Well, that's a selling point for FM.  That and multi-casting.  But it does 
nothing for AM's.  This is just another grand ploy to give FM's an even 
greater advantage over the AM's and the big guns to buy the little guys off 
who can afford the fight.

I have an idea.  Let the AM station owner decide if he wants stereo or two 
mono channels to add a multi-cast MONO format.  Like have Rush on one 
channel and Al Franken on the other.

THAT would make AM IBOC more appealing.  But it still doesn't alter the 
fact AM IBOC is flawed from an analog/digital spectrum standpoint.

At 06:51 AM 12/7/2005 -0600, Kirk Harnack wrote

>    A new J.D. Power survey may have the most promising news yet about HD.
>    Consumers  say they want it. From the Wall Street Journal "Eyes on the
>    Road"  column  about  a  J.D.  Power  survey  - "high definition radio
>    outranked  satellite radio after consumers weighed a one-time cost for
>    HD radio of $150 against satellite radio's $12.95 a month subscription
>    fee."


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