Boston's WBZ in HD, and you have to wonder why?

[mimo]

Savage wrote:

"FWIW an internal source within WBZ advises us that the management is, and has been, quite concerned about HD interference from co-owned KDKA in key parts of the western Beantown metro which get quite a few Arbitron diaries. So maybe summer worked out for them but they're worried about the winter when skywave affects key dayparts. This was a key factor in delaying the launch of HD on KDKA (along with their own antenna problems.) Of course if WBZ takes a dump in the fall and winter IBOC apologists will just blame it on something else. The truth is there's no way to prove it one way or the other."

This is a perfect case of what comes around goes around. If this causes them to rethink Iboc, it may be the relief you need. WBZ for a while has been allowed to walk all over KDKA, WYSL and WHO along with others. It's time for them to reap what they've sown.

 

[Tom Wells]

You are looking at sales and ratings to judge the whether or not pollution in the product is detrimental?

That's not the issue. Clearly you're more bothered by something than the station's audience.

If WBZ's listenership is not hurt by the changes caused by IBOC, then it doesn't matter to the station.

I can only pray that some product you enjoy is weakened, cheapened, adulterated, or polluted in an officially approved manner.

Oh pleeze...just about every product has been changed, from the octane in gasoline to the sugar in cookies, all apporved by our government. Whatever happened to steel bumpers on cars? Don't act like such a baby.

Now you're sounding like a true antagonist. As someone who truly understands what the problem is with WBZ's signal, of course I am more
upset than the the average listener in the local audience.

NOT just about product has been changed. Those that have have been changed have been changed for the sake of cheapness, hoping that the lower quality will pass muster. Octane is a rating, and you are still free to buy the grade of gasoline which will allow you to stand on the gas pedal without
engine knock, maximizing performance. You are still free to buy more expensive cookies made with sugar or even make them yourself.
Corn syrup was originally intended as more of a preservative than an acceptable sweetener.

We're not free to easily buy Coca-Cola made with cane sugar instead of corn syrup, because our US government artificially keeps the price of
cane sugar higher than corn syrup for political reasons, because we hated Castro so much. I can still buy Mexican-produced Coke if I have a hankering for the Real Thing.

There's nothing wrong with my steel bumpers. At last count we own 8 steel and chrome bumpers. Did you actually buy one of those vehicles with
plastic bumpers over a foam core? HAW!

Now here's a good analogy. When I was a boy, we were taught in 4th grade about expansion and contraction of all materials due to temperaure, and that
this effect is most easily seen in something long and solid like railroad tracks. This was the reason, we were told, that shorter sections had to be used
with gaps in between ends of rails so there would be room for summer expansion without stressing the spikes, tie plates, and loosening the rails.
Even though the ends wear from the clickety-clack sound, it was much safer than trying to weld long sections together, because such attempts
always ended up with rails coming loose.

Fast forward to the present. A year or three ago a Norfolk Southern freight derails in the height of summer heat due to over-expanded end-welded
rails that tore themselves loose from the ties. We know better, but risk lives for the sake of cheapness?

If we can't remember what those before us learned the hard way, we are doomed to mediocrity.
You seem to be welcoming the new dark ages with open arms. I prefer to add to the sum of human knowledge, not
gloss over critical issues with a dissmissive "it don't matter all that much".
A little bit of diptheria in the donor's bood doesn't matter all that much.... right?

When you're ready to debate the actual technical failings of the AM iboc concept, we can have a debate.
When you call the other person a baby you disqualify yourself from serious consideration of your ideas.
Would you like to try again from a position of maturity?

 

[TheBigA]

NOT just about product has been changed. Those that have have been changed have been changed for the sake of cheapness, hoping that the lower quality will pass muster.

In the case of IBOC, if cheapness was the goal, they could have saved a lot of money by not using it, given the royalties and equipment costs. So I don't think cheapness was not the motivation.

As for lower quality passing muster, all I have to do is remind you who was elected President for two terms. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice...well you know.

When you're ready to debate the actual technical failings of the AM iboc concept, we can have a debate.

I have absolutely no interest in a debate about IBOC. I can't recall ever saying ANYTHING positive about it. The fact that I question some of the negative claims gets some hairs raised. That's as far as I go. If you want to debate someone, call Bob Struble. He seems to be interested in creating a dialogue. Why else would he have started a blog?