[BC] IBOC

[Scott Cason]

>>Scott, how many HD stations have you really listened to?

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>>You can preach that audio quality just doesn't matter all you want. I can
hear the significant
improvements, and I can hear the positive comments from the field.

If audio quality mattered as much as you think it does, then AM would have
died a quick death after the introduction of FM.  Again, audio quality
doesn't hold as much weight as you think it does.  It's program quality that
drives the train.  It doesn't matter what you have to deliver it with, as
long as the programming is something the listeners want to hear, they will
listen.  Positive comments aside, unless there is a real reason for the
average person to plunk down $300 of their hard earned money, they are not
gonna go out and by and HD radio, "just because it sounds good".  Not when
they get the same programming on the radios they currently own.





>>I'm going to ask one more time... WHAT IS THE BEST WAY??? You can't say,
because you
haven't paid attention to the driving forces so far, and my guess is, you
never will.

And I'm going to say again, one more time, I don't know.  However I can tell
from what I have seen so far, and 25 years experience under my belt, that
the current system we have isn't the way to go.




>>The infomation is out there if you want to find it. But... you
prefer to pick the most convincing internet rants and make them your own.

I don't know why you have decided to carry the water for Ibiquity and the
current IBOC standard we have now, but if you were a real engineer with
enough real world experience, you'd understand that a system that puts noise
on both adjacent channels of an AM signal isn't a very smart move with a
band that's already crowded as it is.  And you'd also understand the
ignorance of putting 4500 watts of a 5000 watt transmitter into a dummy
load.  You have decided to carry IBOC's piss bucket, which is your
prerogative.  However, don't take this to a personal level.  Because it
seems that if it were up to you, we'd all still have those spinning wheels
on the front of our television sets.


Scott Cason
President
LaGrange Communications, LLC
502-213-0024
www.lagrange-com.com