Some may remember Scott from waaay back -- he was part of the independently-produced hobby radio program "Spectrum" back in the late 1980s / early 1990s if I have my dates right.
This is from his weekly "Northeast Radio Watch" column, and includes his observations about the recently-concluded NAB conference / exposition in Las Vegas: "So what were radio broadcasters talking about? There's the new FCC policy requiring licensees to certify, come renewal time, that they and their advertisers aren't discriminating against minority or Hispanic audiences when they buy and sell time. (Can such a policy ever really be enforced? Most of the broadcasters we heard from doubt it, citing the impossibility of "knowing the minds" of their advertisers and agencies.) There's the continuing move of talk and sports formats from AM to FM - and significant concern among some broadcasters that even analog FM is on the road to obsolescence. But despite a big display from HD Radio developer Ibiquity, and a big push from NAB leadership to make FM radio reception (preferably with HD capability) a standard feature on wireless handsets, the future probably lies elsewhere, as broadcasters pursue the real-world audience of millions of existing broadband users with streaming capability." We grouse about international broadcasters leaving shortwave...but even local broadcasters here in North America are finding good ol' analog FM to be a potentially dying bread... http://www.fybush.com/nerw.html RC -- Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA International broadcasting / shortwave blog: http://www.intlradio.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
