[BC] While you are waiting for receivers

[Lewis Munn]

Rich, I agree.
   
  It is my opinion that if the small "mom and pop" stations and their engineering had been asked in to work on the HD and IBOC issues, we would have a much less expensive and more compatable system. One that gets the job done in an economically viable fashion for the little guys.
   
  I have been in small-town radio most of my radio career, and I know that my clients cannot afford the multiplied thousands of dollars in equipment and installation to put in the present new system, which was rushed thru by major rich owners and groups and a supplier who was anxious to keep competition out.
   
  Yes, my folks will either go dark, removing totally local radio from many areas, or be bought out and stay on, perhaps, but programmed by satellite and so the local touch will be gone. No way a group owner in New York City can be responsive to the needs of Malta, Montana, or the differing needs of Wolf Point, Montana, or Saco, Montana, or Glasgow, Montana.  All at the sme time.  Sent up over the same satellite link.
   
  E. E. "Doc" Smith points this out in one book...with the centralized system small individual places only get noticed as representative of the class of small places.  Hence problems can arise that the headquarters will not be aware of.
   
  And I do not see ANY consideration among the "Big Radio" boys for the economic and personal impacts of the layoffs of the radio staffers in the small communities.   Maybe they are there, just very well hidden.
   
  And I am going to miss Public Radio, as it becomes impossible for me to receive them.  See as I get laid off from engineering the small gobbled-up stations, I can no long afford $500-1000 for new radios all around for home and car.  And I do not think I am the only one who will not be buying expensive radios.  Mom and Pop out on the ranch in general will not be able to afford such radios, nor will the programming from Fargantua Central be responsive to what they need to hear for their local area.
   
  And I hear the tests about how the signal switches from digital to analog as one drives.  When there IS no analog to switch to, will it be punching holes in the Digital signal at each and every one of these places?
   
  I wonder why other countries are apparently able to come up with low cost compatable systems for stereo, digital radio, etc...and America finds it cannot, and also cannot let the other systems even compete.  Land of the free?  Or home of the knave?
   
  Looey Munn
  Roundup, MT

Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com> wrote:
    ------ At 10:42 PM 12/11/2005, Williams, Chris \(Albuquerque\) wrote: -------

>In my opinion the IBOC alliance is a good step towards serving
  
Why is collecting a group of "usual suspects" from all the Gargantua 
Internationals going to help the consumer?

			
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