iBiquity had a deadline for all stations who hadn't signed up for IBOC (which is most of them), to do so by Sept 30th in order to avoid much higher iBiquity licensing fees... All in an attempt to stimulate the IBOC momentum and get IBOC rolling faster. Probably to iBiquity's disappointment, the FCC approved nighttime IBOC AM operation more than 2 weeks prior to that deadline. I'm sure they would have prefered that Sept 14th FCC approval would have happened AFTER the iBiquity fee-rise, so that late close-to-deadline station would-be sign-ups wouldn't have heard of the mess of AM nighttime IBOC.. - So now, we're all waiting for the big list of all sudden station sign-ups; similar to lists of how many IBOCers are on the air, seen in Radio World. Ya think we'll ever see "the Sept 30 list"?
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iBiquity's SEPT 30th DEADLINE.........
- Thread starter JIBGUY
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-------------------------------------------------clouseau said:
Maybe that's the way it is now, but a few years ago, the (excessive) fees were based upon the market size and/or the type of each station. That has now been changed to "everyone has to pay the same" (quote from Clouseau, not iBiquity) if sign-up happens before Sept 30 2007, and if they don't, then they have to "everyone has to pay the same" higher amount after Sept 30. Now, I wonder what they'll do to stimulate the remaining 11,500 stations to sign up! - I see some FM's coming on board due to the additional channels, but I don't see many AM's going for this....
Higher license fees? Who cares. Most of iBiquity's investors are the large broadcast groups...so they are just charging themselves more. But for the push to get smaller groups to sign on, good luck! A good investment for the larger (groups) signals to shut out the competing smaller guy's. Reminds me of the wild west before the FRC/FCC!
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Mike Walker
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Ray22, I hate to tell you this, since you speak as if the "big radio groups" are some fringe, not really involved in what's going on in "real" radio, rather than what they are...the guys who own most of the nation's radio properties with a good signal, and an actual audience. Sadly, they can, probably successfully, force a new technology upon the US market all by themselves (and I'm not saying the technology is bad, only the power that the major groups have. Hell, the AM technology MAY be bad. I have no experience with it still in my area, but am still frightened by it's possible implications. But the FM system works damn fine, and has not only restored missing services in my area (classical music, traditional country music), and even brought some new ones too "nichey' to be a "real" format (stand-up comedy!).
JIBGUY said:
I somehow didn't post what I was thinking.
My point was (ANd this was from Ibiquity) there is a pricelist and Ibiquity can not deviate from it. My point was not "Eveyone pays the same" buit "everyone pays the same RATE, based on a set of criteria. The Criteria are kinda screwed up, IMHO, but Ibiquity can not deviate from them.
This is what I meant. Not EXACTLY what I posted.
Clouseau
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