The only newer IBOCers are KRKO 1380 and KKXA 1520 Seattle area. Most in the NW on AM have shut it down.
Patrick Patrick Martin Seaside OR KGED QSL Manager > Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 21:16:53 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IRCA] Radio's Digital Dilemma > > On 01/01/2014 08:34 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote: > > Do you have rough (or better) numbers for the number of AM stations > > transmitting IBOC at the peak and today? It seems there have been no new > > major users of IBOC since the initial phase, and a lot (half?) of the > > original supporters have turned it off and said "why bother?". > > I haven't tracked the numbers over time, but they've been steadily > declining for the past three or four years. A total of about 310 AM > stations have run IBOC at one time or another, but only about 175 (or > maybe less) are still using it today. Most of those are either owned by > iBiquity investors, or their IBOC conversion was subsidized by the > Corporation for Public Broadcasting. > > It's obviously an abject failure... unfortunately, it lingers on. > > Barry > > -- > Barry McLarnon Ottawa, ON > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > _______________________________________________ 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]
