[BC] stamping opinions

[Cornelius Gould]

Rich Wood wrote:
>
> The clue that people are scared to death of this is the fact that 
> several questions I've asked have gone unanswered. One: If you could, 
> would you run AM IBUZ 24/7 right now. Two: where will the advertising 
> money come from to support nearly 7000 new radio stations?
>
On your first point, Personally (not being involved with *any* AM HD 
station installs...yet) I don't have an answer. Just watching with much 
interest as folks who are "knee deep in it" report their findings...good 
and bad. 

As to your second point, I think it is going unanswered simply because, 
as broadcast engineers, it is not our daily job to worry about how sales 
is going to sell a format...new or existing.  We are here to make the 
tech work.   To partially paraphrase a neat tee-shirt idea I read 
earlier...no signal, no program, nothing to sell...  We make sure there 
is a signal, and that there is the capability to put programming *on* 
said signal so that others can make the programming, and sell it.

The "how will these extra stations be financially supported" question, I 
think, is best asked on a Radio Management listserv, if there is such a 
thing.  It is there you may get some answers!

-Just a thought
Cornelius Gould