Category: radio
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AM’s Not Dead (and not just for conservative talk)
The Ionospheric Messenger is an occasional Internet newsletter of the Medium Wave Alliance, covering independent and low-power broadcasting on AM. The newest issue reports independent full-power commercial station, WBZB in the Raliegh, NC area, that has gone to an all local music format. …
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Challenging the FCC’s Roll-Over on Digital Radio
The Amherst Alliance has filed a motion with the FCC for a rehearing on IBOC digital radio. … If granted, a rehearing would be an opportunity to further explore and expose the inteference that IBOC digital broadcasting threatens to wreak on distant and low-power stations. …
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Wired Finally Gets Critical of IBOC Digital Radio
Wired News has now decided to take a listen to critics of IBOC Digital Radio, like Pete TriDish of the Prometheus Low-Power Radio Project and the Media Access Project. Hooray for Wired News — it’s good to know that they’re not just industry shills. Too bad that they mostly only reach a tech-savvy geek crowd…
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What a Red Herring — the AP asks: Is “anything goes” radio all but gone?
Let me be very, very clear. Not at this time, nor at any time in the last twenty years, has commercial radio seen anything approaching “anything goes” radio. Never. Yes, with the rise of the co-called “shock jock” we have seen a suffocating tidal wave of no-talent frat-boys turn morning radio into a barnyard cesspool…
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More Coverage of IBOC Debacle
John Anderson’s put together a special report on yesterday’s IBOC decision, picking through the video from the FCC’s meeting for the choice bits uttered by the commissioners and bureaucrats.
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Digital Radio: A Spectrum Giveaway in Disguise
Markedly absent from news reports on this or in the FCC’s own announcement is that IBOC doubles the bandwidth used by a station, taking up the space on the dial between stations that has been historically used to prevent interference.