Please explain to me how HD Radio ruins the FM band. I have had a couple of HD staiton up and running for nearlyt a year now and not one complaint, nor did anyone notice that it was turned on. Now that more peopel are getting HD Radios, people have noticed by being able to receive the signal.
> > Bill,
> >
> > If I were you, I'd worry more about my little pea shooter
> > LPFMs that nobody can hear and where they're going to end
> up
> > after all of the signal moves. I hear WIOK is moving to
> > 107.9. What now?
>
> Well, first off, the LPFM's have nearly 40,000 people living
> in their coverage area including the fringe. That's more
> than 'nobody' as you claim. This based on the 1990 census.
> Not sure what it is up to now with Independence being one of
> the fastest growing Kentucky communities.
>
> What you should have been told is that WIOK has been
> threatened to be forced into making a move to our channel.
> WIOK & WRHX have been cooperating with each other in order
> to fight the move (which neither wants). Go to the FCC site
> and educate yourself in the paperwork that has been filed to
> get the whole story.
>
> >
> > You and tito just don't get it. That's good for the rest
> of
> > us.
>
> What's good for the rest of us (don't you mean, what's good
> for those that want IBOC?)? A system that causes
> unbelievable interference and ruins the AM & FM band as we
> know it, so that the big players can continue to spread
> their monopolies and continue to rid the spectrum of the
> unworthy (the mom and pops; or make them unhearable) all in
> the name of 4 or 5 more interference hashing channels?
> Whatever. It's called GREED. I'll never buy into this crap
> service. It was an idea turned bad as it progressed because
> their design turned to selfish greed. It was a 'just get it
> done' decision to be able to complete with XM & Sirius
> (which IBOC can not successfully do). Plain bad engineering
> (and the big boys screeeeeammmed about all of the
> interference that LPFM would do to the dial? A smokescreen.
> Well that's another story).
>
> I've been told that IBOC is not written in stone yet and
> that TI's DRE manufacturers are planning and gearing up for
> a major war. I was told this by someone from a major Radio
> Trade Magazine. A station can still have multiple channels
> with their system, as I understand it, not cause co-channel
> hash and be able to upgrade using their same facilities
> (transmitter/antenna) for around $2500. Oh, and DRE does
> not want 3% of the revenue that the station produces on
> their secondary channel(s) like iBiquity wants. See
http://focus.ti.com/docs/general/spl> ashdsp.jhtml?&path=templatedata/cm/splashdsp/data/dri300_350
> (watch the wrap) for more info on the DRE system.
>
> Once internet radio is made available to cars the radio
> landscape will completely change and IBOC will only be a
> memory. I understand that Motorola is introducing a service
> (iRadio) in markets that will provide 435 music channels
> available via the air thru a cellular phone which uses
> Bluetooth technology. See
http://www.> motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,,6260_6215_23,00.html
> and see
http://broadband.motorola.com/iradio/
>
> Not to worry about 107.9. It's not dead yet and we don't
> think it will happen. The owners of 107.9, WIOK & Education
> Media are fighting the move. We feel that Educational Media
> will win the allocation with a new station resulting south
> of us on a different channel which would kill the move
> completely and keep WRHX & WIOK where they are. Oh and just
> in case it does happen, I'm a man with a plan, so not to
> worry. ClassX will be around one way or another.
>
> BTW, ClassX is doing very very well, thank you. Have you
> heard how many sponsors we have? Sales have been going very
> well. We do have limited coverage but 'we do' have coverage
> and people are loving us. We hope to add live announcers
> later this year. Those interested in air slots or marketing
> positions can contact me directly at
[email protected]. We
> have unpaid/volunteer air positions available right now.
>
> Oh and who is Tito?
>
