[BC] IBOC Query

[Tom Bosscher]

Bill Harms wrote:

>It just occurred to me that a station which never broadcasts IBOC 
>could honestly claim they are digital if they are running an internet 
>stream.  My how we can stretch the truth.
>
>	Back when the first digital exciters came out, with the digital STL's, all radio engineers were talking about how soon one coud have an all "digital" FM station.
>  
>
    At one of the Michigan Assoc of Broadcasters conferences, I made the 
statement that the main station I worked for, WCUZ, 101.3 in Grand 
Rapids, MI had declared itself to be the first all digital FM station in 
the US. Murmurs of approval wafted through the crowd. The session 
speaker then asked me what digital stuff I had in the chain to make this 
claim.

    I made the statement that claiming to be digital had nothing to do 
with what equipment was in the chain.

       I went on: "As we know, digital is about being binary. One's and 
Zero's. On or Off. And either my station is on the air, or off the air, 
hence it is digital".

       I was banned from those conferences for 5 years.

       tom, hey it's only words, bosscher