NAB "Term Sheet" for Performance Rights Agreement includes HD Radio

[radiogooroo]

As part of the deal, the NAB wants radio in mobile phones and wants HD to be included "when economically feasible."

http://www.nab.org/documents/newsroom/pdfs/102510_NABTermSheet.pdf

 

[RadeoEngineer]

Now there's some damn good news. About time I'd say. The cash will flow endlessly and the economy will be saved.

 

[pianoplayer88key]

If they put radio in mobile phones, I hope they are much better than some of the other portable radios out there today. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to listen to a station, but couldn't because A - my radio wasn't sensitive enough (I couldn't even detect a trace of a carrier in many cases), and B - my radio wasn't selective enough (not only was the station very weak, but it was only 10 kHz (on AM, or 200 kHz on FM) away from a station that could be loudly heard from its frequency to about halfway across the band, and weaker all the way across the band in some extreme cases.

 

[tomservo]

It's interesting to compare the perspective on this between the radio-centric boards like this one and tech-centric ones like Ars Technica. Radio people are lauding the push but tech people see it as a last desperate gasp of a dying media. And that's no doubt what many of you think about the HD encouragement.

 

[local oscillator]

My, my, my . . . the NAB . . . still thinks it represents us (maybe some, but nowhere near all) . . . and can tell the consumer electronics folks how to run their businesses . . . and can slip that little HD poison pill into its "Term Sheet" and think that it means . . . anything. A once mighty industry association has been reduced to . . . this. Pitiful.