http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,82132.0.html
It's over for AM-HD - no sense in running it during the day, if it
doesn't work at night!
Yep. I saw that one coming. Behind the scenes, the impression the
companies have had when it comes to nighttime operation has been quite
negative.
"HD" is finally starting to unravel. It's about time.
--
John Higdon
+1 408 ANdrews 6-4400
Yup, it was bound to happen, coupled with total consumer apathy
towards purchasing HD radios - AM-HD is starting to unwind! Now, from
Maryland I can start listening to WBBM and WSB again! WOR needs to be
next, because it is clobbering WLW.
If it does, then what? Would broadcasters be interested in DRM
(presuming operation on MW in Europe and consumer electronics
companies that are willing to produce receivers)? (See, e.g.,
http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0048/t.4159.html) Or is the band
wedded to analog?
- Jonathan
I meant to point out that this article -- which seems so timely -- was
written two years ago.
- Jonathan
> If it does, then what? Would broadcasters be interested in DRM
> (presuming operation on MW in Europe and consumer electronics
> companies that are willing to produce receivers)? (See, e.g.,
> http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0048/t.4159.html) Or is the band
> wedded to analog?
Is that what broadcasting is all about? Which digital system we *must*
use? While broadcasting deteriorates as the corporate weasels withdraw
further and further from their core business (entertaining and informing
their audiences...for those who HAVE completely forgotten what it's all
about), running around looking for the digital holy grail is about as
meaningful as painting a sinking ship.
I don't givashit whether it is digital or analog. It first needs to be
something worth listening to. Then, we can luxuriate in worrying about
the wallpaper (or whether there is really anything to worry about in
that department at all).
Unless the bull believes it is transgendered. In that case the bull
would be well served perhaps.
How many years was digital AM in development? After all those years
it's taken less than three weeks for a major station group to give it
the heave-ho at night.
> How many years was digital AM in development? After all those years
> it's taken less than three weeks for a major station group to give it
> the heave-ho at night.
The only reason it got a push to go on the air when it did (back in
2002) was related to nervous investors who lowered the boom. Word has it
that iBiquity had been waiting on its applications to repeal certain
physical laws from the books. :-)
In the absence of that repeal, the disaster that ensued when a mere
handful of stations commenced nighttime operation of IBOC on AM was
completely expected by all of us who have had a modicum of experience in
these things.
Just as the US government predicted cheering from the "liberated"
Iraqis, iBiquity and its sycophants were positive that the grand
wonderfulness of HD would cause it to be embraced by the public, warts
and all.
Fortunately, the problems caused by this "solution" in search of a
problem can be eliminated by eliminating the "solution".