WSCR has its eye on FM dial

[radioman148]

HEY HOW ABOUT TRYING==(87.5)

Announcer: "First on your FM Dial and First in Sports, WSCR 87.5"

Only problem is that less than 5% of all FM Tuners currently out there in the USA tune down to 87.5... (;

Hopefully (as has been mentioned in many threads on R-I), the FCC will open 76-88 MHz to FM and allow the current AM stations to move there if HD on FM doesn't take off. The receivers already exist since the Asian FM band is 76-108 MHz (or portions thereof, depending on the country). If not, then HD on FM will have to be perfected and HD receiver sales will have to be much better than they are now.

You'll still have a whole bunch of people who will have to go out and buy alot of new radios.

 

[KeithE4]

HEY HOW ABOUT TRYING==(87.5)

Announcer: "First on your FM Dial and First in Sports, WSCR 87.5"

Only problem is that less than 5% of all FM Tuners currently out there in the USA tune down to 87.5... (;

Hopefully (as has been mentioned in many threads on R-I), the FCC will open 76-88 MHz to FM and allow the current AM stations to move there if HD on FM doesn't take off. The receivers already exist since the Asian FM band is 76-108 MHz (or portions thereof, depending on the country). If not, then HD on FM will have to be perfected and HD receiver sales will have to be much better than they are now.

You'll still have a whole bunch of people who will have to go out and buy alot of new radios.

Like the expanded AM band, the radios would have to be available before stations could move. This would be a trivial matter and could happen this year if the FM band was expanded (which it won't be even if the FCC does propose doing so tomorow). It would require FCC Part 15 approval, a wall cube that can plug into our AC outlets, and maybe some relabeling of the radios (English instead of Chinese or Japanese).

If the programming is what listeners want, and the radios are imported, the stations will move. I'm talking about analog FM radios, of course. HD on FM is still another can of worms.

 

[radioman148]

HEY HOW ABOUT TRYING==(87.5)

Announcer: "First on your FM Dial and First in Sports, WSCR 87.5"

Only problem is that less than 5% of all FM Tuners currently out there in the USA tune down to 87.5... (;

Hopefully (as has been mentioned in many threads on R-I), the FCC will open 76-88 MHz to FM and allow the current AM stations to move there if HD on FM doesn't take off. The receivers already exist since the Asian FM band is 76-108 MHz (or portions thereof, depending on the country). If not, then HD on FM will have to be perfected and HD receiver sales will have to be much better than they are now.

You'll still have a whole bunch of people who will have to go out and buy alot of new radios.

Like the expanded AM band, the radios would have to be available before stations could move. This would be a trivial matter and could happen this year if the FM band was expanded (which it won't be even if the FCC does propose doing so tomorow). It would require FCC Part 15 approval, a wall cube that can plug into our AC outlets, and maybe some relabeling of the radios (English instead of Chinese or Japanese).

If the programming is what listeners want, and the radios are imported, the stations will move. I'm talking about analog FM radios, of course. HD on FM is still another can of worms.

But you still have most of your listeners in cars and how many of those people are going to run out and buy new car radios right away?

 

[stormy01]

HEY HOW ABOUT TRYING==(87.5)

Announcer: "First on your FM Dial and First in Sports, WSCR 87.5"

Only problem is that less than 5% of all FM Tuners currently out there in the USA tune down to 87.5... (;

Hopefully (as has been mentioned in many threads on R-I), the FCC will open 76-88 MHz to FM and allow the current AM stations to move there if HD on FM doesn't take off. The receivers already exist since the Asian FM band is 76-108 MHz (or portions thereof, depending on the country). If not, then HD on FM will have to be perfected and HD receiver sales will have to be much better than they are now.

You'll still have a whole bunch of people who will have to go out and buy alot of new radios.

Like the expanded AM band, the radios would have to be available before stations could move. This would be a trivial matter and could happen this year if the FM band was expanded (which it won't be even if the FCC does propose doing so tomorow). It would require FCC Part 15 approval, a wall cube that can plug into our AC outlets, and maybe some relabeling of the radios (English instead of Chinese or Japanese).

If the programming is what listeners want, and the radios are imported, the stations will move. I'm talking about analog FM radios, of course. HD on FM is still another can of worms.

But you still have most of your listeners in cars and how many of those people are going to run out and buy new car radios right away?

Exactly! No major station is going to move to the Expanded FM band until just about everyone has the capability of receiving it everywhere: mobile and at home.
So this is at least 10 years away, even if the FCC expands the FM band this year (at the current rate that people are hanging on to their vehicles) By then there will be a much better technology [delivery system/infrastructure] anyway.