The radio broadcast industry's efforts to get FM broadcast band
receivers into cell phones has been unsuccessful. The wireless
carriers who subsidize the phone costs (with revenues from expensive
multi-year phone contracts) control the phones' feature sets and have
little to gain from adding this feature and increasing their handset prices.
A couple of years ago, radio broadcast industry lobbyists tied to do
an end-run by lobbying Congress to mandate FCC type-acceptance of
U.S. cell phones to include an FM broadcast receiver--using the
justification it would enhance Homeland Security (EAS messaging when
mobile networks are overloaded with traffic.) But that effort went
nowhere as well.
These days smartphone users simply download the audio stream of the
radio station they want to hear on their smart phone, using their
mobile carrier's 3G or 4G data networks. It's not radio
broadcasting, it's not free to receive, and it's not efficient--but
it's the direction the radio broadcasting market is headed. My Irish
attorney listens to an Irish radio station in his car through his
iPhone, which sends the audio via Bluetooth to his car stereo. It
sounds great, and he can afford the wireless mobile data charges.
-Ed Cummings
At 03:00 PM 5/7/2012, Rich Cuff wrote:
From Fester Charles Hargrove (Charles...do you need to register for
the Fest list? Your message below bounced...
Richard
The main reason for news and sports to make their entry onto the FM dial is
that there are many devices like my cellphone that only have an FM receiver
chip and not MW. In other words, go to where the ears can hear you.
Advertisers and media moguls are not stupid, just slow in making up
their minds.
Here in NYC we now have WEPS (101.9) with news and WRKS (98.7) with
ESPN sports.
--
Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV
NYC ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord.
NYC-ARECS/RACES Net Mon. @ 8:30PM 147.360/107.2 PL
http://www.nyc-arecs.org andhttp://www.nyc-skywarn.org
NYDXA SWL& Scanner Net Wed. @ 9PM 147.360/107.2 PL
http://www.n2nov.net
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