FCC delays decision on mandatory HD Radio.
As part of its approval of the merger, the FCC has said ‘no’ to requiring XM-Sirius to include HD Radio receivers in all new satellite radios. But the approval did include some requirements.
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July 28th, 2008 at 11:52 am
“The satellite merger undermines public radio.”
“There’s apparently an olive branch in Friday’s decision – the Wall Street Journal’s Amy Schatz says the FCC will issue a Notice of Inquiry about whether future satellite radio receivers should carry HD circuitry, so they can pick up local HD signals. Not analog signals, just the digital signals, which would theoretically spur more stations to think about going HD.”
http://tinyurl.com/5pa7cf
“Ibiquity Fears Open Access Will Not Help Adoption Of HD Radio”
“I have said it before, and I will say it again. HD Radio has a responsibility to market itself. They should not be out looking for business model hand-outs. They should not be trying to circumvent negotiations with OEM’s by getting into car dashboards on the backs of the negotiations that Sirius and XM have made, and by extension, on the backs of shareholders in the SDARS companies.”
http://tinyurl.com/6pgnq2
Should the FCC mandate that all HD radios include Satrad? What is really happening is that iBiquity/Struble knows that consumers don’t want their junk technology, which doesn’t even work, so they try and force it onto consumers. Now, NPR wants to revisit the issue, even after open access has already been agreed upon, and exclude analog radio in satrad receviers. I hope that this request spurs non-HD broadcasters to join Bob Savage of WYSL in his fight against this destuctive jamming technology. Of course, it is the NPR stations, which bilked Congress out of millions, who want to jam the smaller broadcasters off the dial. The FCC, when they authorized this jamming machine, declared that the marketplace would determine the fate of HD Radio.