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FCC sets mandatory HD conversion date

cd637299 said:
badjef said:
mmnassour said:
badjef said:
On the other side, yesterday's Rays game on WDAE was about 10 seconds delayed on the HD side from the analog. And it was constantly switching back and forth. Almost impossible to follow a baseball game that way.
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Or a song.....or a sentence.....or just about anything.

Faulty technology getting the burial it deserves.
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WFAN on WLLD HD-3 is running about an hour and ten minutes behind.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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Are you sure it's not a repeat of a sports roundup *during* a Mets game which 660 must carry? I learned the hard way last year that even though the HD's of WFAN are "radio stations," they actually just function as Web feeds blacked out during live sports events.

cd
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No, they were giving time checks. It wasn't during the game. It was during the obnoxious Boomer and Carton.

Btw, as a Rays fan, it was like a comedy channel, to me.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
gosmith123 said:
I believe that we all have under-estimated iBiquity. I remember thinking about five years ago that iBiquity would never get HD Radio standard with the automakers. Boy, was I wrong. Even though HD Radio doesn't work as claimed, iBiquity has now bagged all of the automakers, in some form. The automakers know the problems with HD Radio, yet continue to install it. Beasley has met secretly with the FCC to put and end to AM radio. This is all stacked in favor of iBiquity. I admit that iBiquity is nothing but a bunch of crooks, but they have their business-plan, with support from th FCC.
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I, for one, would love to know just what the licensing terms are between iBiquity and the automakers (or the component manufacturers who are making the automakers' glass dashboards). The company really has nowhere to go but up...if it can reach a critical mass of revenues, and nobody seems to know what that mass is. Still a gamble, and I just don't think there's a simple explanation to where the company's head is at.

Just to clarify, Caroline Beasley is part of an NAB AM Task force that's coming up with "options" for the "future of AM." Like lots of big ideas, this one's percolating within the trade group and will be unveiled to the rest of us unwashed masses when they're ready.

I know we've got active AMers on this board...what do *you* folks know about the NAB's AM Task Force?
 
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