| Better than satellite It's about time this technology was approved. The big difference between IBOC and Sirius or XM is that you won't have to pay a subscription fee to listen to it. Also, this technology could help to rescue the AM band.
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| Oh yeah, I'm just looking forward to listening to the same damn 20 songs over and again, only now it'll be in digital CD quality sound. Thanks ClearChannel.
I personally am happy paying $9.99 a month so that I can choose what *I* want to hear, and even get exposed to things you'd never hear on broadcast. |
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Herndon, VA | What, you mean you don't like hearing Puddle of Mudd, Creed, and Pink right after Traffic every hour "on the eights"? I think you're just mad because you weren't the 100th caller to call in and identify the krazy kooky sound of the week. |
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Rescue the AM band? Fuhwah? Is there some starving baby wave-height fund I don't know about? Who cares? AM has the content it has on it because it doesn't support the fidelity required for music. They "tried to save the AM band" (and jeez, again, AM is not a band, they just happen to broadcast AM on the MW band) with AM stereo -- there was just no need for it. There's plenty of room on FM for the blowtorch rockers.
True, the MW frequencies could support some longer ranges at night, but there's another issue of the content! FM plays 3-4 minute songs. AM plays multi-hour talk and news. Distance doesn't matter for FM. When FM fades, there's usually another talp fahrty rahk/pahp station you can tune to and find your Alicia Keyes crap. AM keeps a listener for hours, so that's the distance advantage.. And sorry, clarity and fidelity just don't matter that much for Limbaugh.
So again, in the end.. You won't have to pay a subscription fee -- but so what? It's the same crap. A polished turd is still a turd even if it's free.
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EDIT.. I just wanted to make it blatantly clear that I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh, and was simply using his entertainment progrum as an example. Please put down the flamethrowers.
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