[BC] IBOC Query

[Chuck Lakaytis]

I have been thinking about digital radio in terms of energy cost.  We have
sites running 10 KW transmitters with power costs of 13 cents per kilowatt
hour.  I honestly believe that "The Party is Over" in terms of cheap energy.
We ain't seen nothing yet as we slide down the slope of the end of the
liquid and fossil fuel age. That may be a driving point for conversion not
too far in the future.

Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Anchorage, Alaska
907 277 6300
907 310 4339 (cell)


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Subject: Re: [BC] IBOC Query

In a message dated 02/01/2006 5:58:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
richwood at pobox.com writes:

> Let's be really, really conservative and assume everyone 
>  won't replace the multiple analog receivers they currently use. With 
>  a population of nearly 298 million people, that leaves 297 million to 
>  go just to have access to the entire population, as we do now. That's 
>  close to when analog can go away.
>  
>  Rather than negativism I prefer to think of this as realism. I think 
>  there's a real difference from what regularly appears in puffy press 
> releases.

Rich, I agree with you completely. I just cannot imagine everyone going out 
and dumping working radios. The recent price drop of the BA unit 
notwithstanding... $300 is still a *lot* to pay for a table radio with
minimal benefit to 
the average listener.

The way it seems to me, is that HD2 is just a high-fidelity SCA service. It 
may have some value in that respect- leasing-out the HD2 "SCA" to another 
program provider, perhaps ethnic programming/music or whatever. You still
have to 
consider the cost of the receivers, tho... and the fee$ to IBORG.

Willie...

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