Comments on: Competition is good https://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159 Is this the end? Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Art Stone https://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15847 Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:51:22 +0000 http://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15847 T-Mobile just announced its support for NextRadio. With Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile on board, I can’t imagine Verizon holding out. The odd man out is Apple. They have their own reasons to not allow competition for music content from local radio

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By: Art Stone https://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15814 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 07:34:52 +0000 http://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15814 In reply to CC1s121LrBGT.

The NAB and Homeland Security continue to push the idea that this would be helpful during a disaster when cell towers go down (because homeland security takes them over for government cell phones).

I keep going back to the fact that the EBS system was not activated on 9/11. If that wasn’t enough, what scenario would justify keeping it around? Just set up an EBS official page on Facebook and Twitter and let go.

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By: Art Stone https://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15813 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 07:29:31 +0000 http://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15813 In reply to CC1s121LrBGT.

Why have an FCC license?

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By: CC1s121LrBGT https://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15811 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 20:15:46 +0000 http://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15811 In reply to Art Stone.

There are also a lot of “one station only” smart phone apps. Download the app for your favorite station and when you launch the app, your favorite station starts playing. iHeart is the extreme example where one corporation owns many many stations. Bloomberg Business Radio is another where the app includes stock charts that are being discussed on the radio.

Why pay the power bills of a 50,000 watt AM transmitter?

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By: Art Stone https://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15806 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 05:02:17 +0000 http://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15806 In reply to RebelSansClue.

Increasingly AM radio is being simulcast on FM translators – the FCC officially blessed the idea 3 or 4 years ago. Because FM Translators are lower power, they can be wedged in between existing full power stations. This is one thing the FCC is hoping to use to “save” AM radio by killing it.

From observation, what normally happens is that once the remaining AM audience switches from FM, the format changes from an AM mainstay like talk, Classic Country, Oldies, Mexican music – to contemporary music. All that was preserved was the monetary value of the license, not the programming. It probably is widely practice that once the audience is on FM, they power off the AM transmitter – that’s an FCC rules violation, but the FCC has bigger fish to fry

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By: RebelSansClue https://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15805 Sun, 02 Aug 2015 19:31:48 +0000 http://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=13159#comment-15805 Most FM radio is crap. I get enough of it in the car. What I would really like is AM radio so I can listen to evil right wing talk when it’s not being pre-empted by sports.

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