Well, I had promised to ignore The Big Adolescent previously, but the recent posts have pegged "the ignorant meter" so I can't resist. Thanks, BigA, for finally revealing your agenda here for everyone. You simply hate US commercial radio, which explains your frequent nihilist rants here. Which are astonishingly uninformed, I must add.
Where on God's green earth did you ever get the idea "the public is not compensated for use" of the radio spectrum? Have you never heard of spectrum auctions and annual spectrum use fees paid by every single freakin' radio station in the US? Have you never heard of license application fees for every official function from callsign changes to CP apps and mods to STA applications to transfers of license control and on and on? It's BILLIONS of dollars paid into the US Treasury annually directly related to use of the public airwaves, specifically, the RADIO spectrum.
And radio "should not be used for entertainment?" In The BigA's future world of radio, his legislative ban on "entertainment on the radio" will surely make for a must-hear product I'm sure. (Although big group radio these days is certainly making a valiant early attempt.) Presumably, though, The BigA wants to wipe out those billions in federal revenues from radio, outlaw "entertainment" and proscribe making any productive use, revenue-wise, of radio broadcasting. So: say goodbye, in advance, to future versions of Todd Storz, Orson Welles, Garrison Keillor, Gordon McLendon, Dick Clark, Bill Drake, Casey Kasem, and the scores of legendary entertainers (can't have THAT!) who have been enjoyed by untold millions over decades of US commercial radio.
And presumably it should all be replaced by......what, Radio Sofia? The Beeb? A big TIS or all-HD version of NOAA weather radio?
While The BigA would proscribe "entertainment on the radio" thankfully he doesn't fail to supply big laughs here, so we won't have to go completely mirthless. "A lot of people have testified at the FCC" that we need to end all US commercial broadcast radio as we know it? Really? Somehow that little development eluded the editors of RW, Broadcasting & Cable, RBR and many blogsites....can you supply us with the Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking or Notice Of Inquiry dates and docket numbers of these little soirees?
Or when you type "a lot of people" - vocal ones, to be sure - are you referring to a handful of infantile, disingenuous nitwits who pontificate anonymously on blogsites about fantasy FCC hearings to end commercial radio?
BTW: on another thread on this board, you brayed to the effect that "the FCC will not get involved" when it comes to cases of IBOC-AM adjacent channel interference. Actually, that - like many of your posts - is just made-up crap. In Philadelphia a major AM signal was recently receiving serious interference from a SECOND-adjacent station in Harrisburg. A complaint was filed and the two parties were told to either work it out between them, or the Commission would order the interferor to reduce digital power. A reduction was made which satisfied the Philly station. And another potential PR disaster for HD was averted (the interferor is a member of the Alliance, so they decided to live with half a loaf, which is about as good as it gets with HD Radio.)
