iBiquity's Station License Agreement

[GreedMongers]

"Editorial: More Than Half Full"

"... we hear murmurings about some broadcasters pulling back on AM-HD or wishing to renegotiate their commitments with Ibiquity."

http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.13363.html

"2008 Station License Agreement"

http://www.ibiquity.com/i/pdfs/2008 Form SLA-B.pdf

Section 6.1 states that licensees can terminate their agreements with iBiquity within 30 days, with written notice. What would there be to renegotiate - a portion of the original licensing fees, for these perpetual licenses? Seems iBiquity could be liable, with delivering a system that simply doesn't work, under false pretenses.

 

[Play Freebird]

"2008 Station License Agreement"

http://www.ibiquity.com/i/pdfs/2008 Form SLA-B.pdf

I stopped reading when I got to the part about Cannibalization.

Signed,
Timothy

 

[greenie]

If AM IBOC has slowed, wait until the license fee hits $25,000! It will probably go in reverse, these guys just don't get it. Right now with AM, I'm not sure they can give it away! :-\

 

[GreedMongers]

Perhaps, that was RW's politically-correct way of saying, "terminate"?

 

[Carmine5]

Well, when you're dependent on a small pool of advertisers, as RW is, you have to soft pedal the negativity (unless it's satellite radio, of course).

But so that you don't appear a total shill, you have to occasionally give a dissenting viewpoint some column space. RW has done that with Mr. Savage, Holland Cooke and even ole' Lenny Kahn.

And yet, whenever they print such a viewpoint, I get a sense that the RW editors have a subtle contempt for those who disagree with them.

C5

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Well, when you're dependent on a small pool of advertisers, as RW is, you have to soft pedal the negativity (unless it's satellite radio, of course).

I can't wait for the eating crow articles, and in depth analysis of why HD radio failed in a few years. They will probably blame it all on DX'ers who dared to speak out. The vitriolic hatred of DX'ers and the reminiscences about the good old days of HD radio are sure to be amusing.

The fall of HD radio reminds me of the fall of Hillary Clinton. They were expecting massive acceptance on the part of gullible consumers that never materialized, just as Hillary expected a coronation and not a real campaign.

I guess consumers were more intelligent than iBiquity gave them credit for being. Nothing dampens consumer enthusiasm like a product that doesn't work in the store. Can you imagine how many iPods would have been sold if they always had to be tethered to a computer to work? About as many as HD radios that have to be tethered to a huge DX antenna ---- but Apple did their homework and severed the wire.