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JON BRUCE said:
Sounds like the first step of a move from AM to FM, per the Mexican government's plan to eliminate as many AMs as possible. Each has a sunset period during the transition where both AM and FM operate.
Big 121 said:Since HD interference is an issue with this topic, anyone have the HD-PPM numbers for KSDS, or KOGO??
Only HD 2 and greater would show separately. There is no ratings figure that shows how many users of the main programming are listening in analog and how many in HD. That applies to AM and FM, with the obvious statement that AMs don't have HD2 and greater programs.
...because the earlier you got on board with HD, the cheaper the royalties paid to Ibiquity?
...because once you get a PTFP grant to build something, you have to keep it on the air?
...because the general manager has a HD radio in his/her car and will come in and whine if it's not on?
...because once you get a PTFP grant to build something, you have to keep it on the air?
...because the general manager has a HD radio in his/her car and will come in and whine if it's not on?
Big 121 said:
Per an arbitron study recently released, 2% of in-car radio users have and use HD now.
XEKT has only a short time to leave AM not that it got an "exchange" FM. As of now, about 60% of all Mexican AMs have concessions to move to FM and surrender the AM license.
hipman2 said:
Mexico, on principal, will likely keep the notifications active, just as Canada has done as they eliminated well over half the AMs there.
I would anticipate some of the stations that didn't move trying to upgrade within Mexico.
DavidEduardo said:Big 121 said:Since HD interference is an issue with this topic, anyone have the HD-PPM numbers for KSDS, or KOGO??
Only HD 2 and greater would show separately. There is no ratings figure that shows how many users of the main programming are listening in analog and how many in HD. That applies to AM and FM, with the obvious statement that AMs don't have HD2 and greater programs.
I do have direct knowledge on this subject of KSDS....
1) KSDS does not have a full time chief engineer right now...he is on work furlough days because of budget issues (isn't this illegal?).
2) KSDS bought the IBOC equipment but they do not have any extra programming channels right now, although Chris Carmichael's moniker of "Stay Tuned" is quite appropriate at this point on this subject.
w9wi said:
What I was asking was that I thought it was a requirement for a station to have an engineer always available, always doing checking and doing transmitter readings, etc.
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