Saul; Advertising revenue? The pro-IBOC movement will contend that stations should not cater to listeners out of their signal coverage area. The pro-noise movement even mentions the shutdown of WJR and WABC as being because of complaints from Western PA, supposedly out of either's coverage area. Not sure if that is true.
For the most part, us DX'ers are against nighttime AM IBOC. If you want to see the flip side of the IBOC coin, venture over to the AVS Forum and check out the HD radio forum. Us that don't favor the service are called luddites. :p 73, Dave in Indy ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:34:26 +0000 From: "Chernos Saul" <[email protected]> Subject: [IRCA] The cost of IBOC To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Thanks for the answers received. I was thinking of AM. I couldn't help thinking, as I passed by WBZ on the dial last night and noted it and adjacent channels getting hammered by noise, that IBOC has cost these stations up-front costs, ongoing energy costs, and of course any impact from loss of signal quality (while signals of some stations are no doubt eroded within primary contours, I am not sure if advertisers really know, and if this has yet translated into lost ad revenue). So as I passed by WBZ I thought of the cuts their to local content, and pondered over the relative wisdom of decisions made there. I was wondering if the cost of IBOC electricity (and any other ongoing IBOC-related costs) might equal one host. Maybe? Maybe not? I know there would be variations between a large market versus a smaller one, and a big-name local host versus a small one. Saul _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
