[BC] IBOC

[Robert Orban]

At 09:58 AM 7/14/2005, you wrote:
>From: "Phil Alexander" <dynotherm at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: [BC] IBOC
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>My guess is that will accelerate the process. When Congress
>gets into the act most of them will have been listening to IBOC
>for at least a year or two. The simplest solution would be a
>receiver mandate and a date certain when all stations had to
>convert to IBOC and another for full digital. That would cut the
>noise floor to nothing. Consider than any broadcaster with enough
>money to influence a congress critter is more than well funded
>for doing the conversion. Then they can say they solved the
>problem just like the UHF TV thing.

With the current iBiquity licensing structure, I think that mandating 
the system would be politically impossible because it would provide 
iBiquity with a windfall that would outrage the industry. One would 
have to look to a licensing structure like ATSC's, which is perceived 
by most as fair.

Bob Orban