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WBZ IBOC off today 9/20/08 at 230 EDT

K

KB1OKL

I sent Marc this letter:

I wanted to congratulate you for turning off your HD today 9-20-08, I do not own an HD radio and never will like 99.9999% of listeners who have also rejected it but can tell by the fact that your station's sound is not hissy today and there are no whooshing white noise sidebands covering everything from from 1015 to 1045 Khz adjacent to your own frequency. One thing though your reception is still nowhere near as clear or as robust as it was before you installed the HD equipment, hopefully you will be able to re-institute your former good signal and sound, it sounds like it is coming over a telephone lately and has been very weak. Just a concerned listener,

Bob Young
Millbury, MA

I realize they are probably just turning up the IBOC sidebands to +30 db or something like that but I thought he might get a kick out of a congratulatory letter. ;D
 
Bob,

Unfortunately what I find is that these instances are almost always temporary. Usually, the I-Block jammer will be turned back on later on the same day, or in a day or two. You have to wonder what the handful of people who purchased "HD" radios thinks when they work sometimes and don't work other times.

There's no harm in sending them a letter, but my experience has been that these stations really do not care AT ALL what listeners think about the way the signal sounds, or about the interference caused to other stations.

I'm probably cynical, but my theory is that interference is a deliberate part of their strategy to limit listener choices and force you to listen to the handful of stations in your market, which are generally all owned by the same conglomerate.
 
audioguy said:
Bob,

Unfortunately what I find is that these instances are almost always temporary. Usually, the I-Block jammer will be turned back on later on the same day, or in a day or two. You have to wonder what the handful of people who purchased "HD" radios thinks when they work sometimes and don't work other times.

There's no harm in sending them a letter, but my experience has been that these stations really do not care AT ALL what listeners think about the way the signal sounds, or about the interference caused to other stations.

I'm probably cynical, but my theory is that interference is a deliberate part of their strategy to limit listener choices and force you to listen to the handful of stations in your market, which are generally all owned by the same conglomerate.
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Oh yeah, it's back on and and we have corresponded before, sent me a rah-rah letter about the wonders of IBOC. I wonder if anyone else wrote in? ....Nahhhhhhhhhh.
 
That's exactly the response I got from the CE of WGN...
 
" the wonders of Iboc" now that’s funny and great comedy.
"sound is not hissy today" "no whooshing white noise sidebands covering everything from from 1015 to 1045 Khz" the wonders of Iboc, I’m still rolling on ground laughing my blank off.

Sounds like before responding to your letter, that GM just had another swig
from a big cup Kool-Aid, a spin masters favorite.

Kool-Aid, a flavored sugary drink held in high esteem by most radio and NAB executives, conservative talk show hosts and politicians. Kool-Aid, an evil black magic, is responsible for all forms of spin, hype, lies ruined lives, and wasted man hours just getting to the real truth. Kool-Aid, induced delusions are responsible for IBOC, countless wars, Am stereo, and tax payer bailouts. Just to mention a few.

Kool-Aid is always a spin masters favorite.
Just say no to Kool-Aid my friends.

Not to be confused with the real thing Kool-Aid and loved by all kids, some adults too.
 
pocket-radio said:
" the wonders of Iboc" now that’s funny and great comedy.
"sound is not hissy today" "no whooshing white noise sidebands covering everything from from 1015 to 1045 Khz" the wonders of Iboc, I’m still rolling on ground laughing my blank off.

Sounds like before responding to your letter, that GM just had another swig
from a big cup Kool-Aid, a spin masters favorite.

Kool-Aid, a flavored sugary drink held in high esteem by most radio and NAB executives, conservative talk show hosts and politicians. Kool-Aid, an evil black magic, is responsible for all forms of spin, hype, lies ruined lives, and wasted man hours just getting to the real truth. Kool-Aid, induced delusions are responsible for IBOC, countless wars, Am stereo, and tax payer bailouts. Just to mention a few.

Kool-Aid is always a spin masters favorite.
Just say no to Kool-Aid my friends.

Not to be confused with the real thing Kool-Aid and loved by all kids, some adults too.
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Yup, Marc is signed, sealed and delivered, loves the stuff, the magic elixir cool aid that his dealer ick!uity keeps selling him.
 
audioguy said:
I'm probably cynical, but my theory is that interference is a deliberate part of their strategy to limit listener choices and force you to listen to the handful of stations in your market, which are generally all owned by the same conglomerate.
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That makes absolutely no sense.

How does WBZ's interference with Savage's station force people in his market to listen to his station?

As for forcing you to listen to stations in your market, that has been FCC and Congressional policy for 25 years. It has nothing to do with ownership. If you go to FCC.gov, you'll read pages and pages of comments about radio localism, and how the FCC wants to add more and more small local stations to the band. Even though the 14,000 currently licensed are having trouble meeting expenses. It was also government policy, not ownership, that scaled back power of clear channel AMs and added stations on those frequencies. Owners are doing everything they can to preserve the power and reach of their stations. That's where the value is.

There are only a couple of communities in the country where all the stations are owned by the same conglomerate. The stations in those communities are for sale, and were ordered to be sold by the FCC, specifically because of media concentration.
 
The Dude said:
KB1OKL said:
I sent Marc this letter
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Thats all you can do my friend,send very nice comments when its off,then hope they KEEP IT OFF!!
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Not this guy he'll only shut it off after they pry his cold dead fingers from the iBlock button, he's an HD cheerleader all the way, a lot of the big boys really couldn't couldn't care less about whom they trample into the ground. Seems to be a 50KW sickness, is very prevalent in NY also. That's alright WBZ sounds like krap now and is harder to receive, they'll get it in the end. It's called Karma I believe.
 
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