[BC] IBOC

[DANA PUOPOLO]

The better way would have been digital on another band....They could have
shared a few UHF channels for example, as not all are used in every city. 

Instead, we ahve this abortion of digital radio that (at least to my ears)
sounds awful, and trashes it's neighbors.

The irony is that in their original comments to the FCC about digital radio,
Sconnix Broadcasting wanted AM stations to get less bits then FM because FM
stations cost more! Preposterous, right? Well, that's EXACTLY what happened!

Now, everybody says: "Well, this is the system we have so let's live with it!"
I have news for you...If TV (had) thought that way, we'd still be using the
CBS color system and have spinning color wheels in our TV sets!

-D



------ Original Message ------
Received: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:07:18 PM PDT
From: Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] IBOC

At 05:54 PM 7/13/2005, Mike Gideon wrote
>Well... after a decade or so of nitpicking and disagreement, what do you 
>expect. As I said in my private email to you, getting everyone to agree on 
>ANYTHING was the real hurdle. We gotta work around the rest

         Agreed.

>>         Yes... and it has been said that Ibiquity's
>>         business model specifically excluded
>>         engineers as "irrelevant" to the whole
>>         process.  I would tend to believe it.


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