Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.rbr.com/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.rbr.com/files.php?file=rss_logo1_757997737.jpg http://www.rbr.com/ http://www.rbr.com/radio/18485.html Radio News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:04:00 -0500 A group of corner office radio executives paid visits to four of the five FCC commissioners, explaining the public safety benefits of an FM requirement for cell http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com Radio News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:23:13 -0500 "FCC Inquiry on Mandate for HD Radio on Sirius Receivers""That last issue, the FCC statutory authority to adopt rules in this area, is a general question considered in several other recent FCC proceedings... Rules requiring that equipment manufacturers take certain actions have run into problems in the Court of Appeals in the recent past as the FCC has only limited jurisdiction over such manufacturers..."http://tinyurl.com/lvmtatGodd-luck with that one - it would probably violate antitrust laws, too. The cellular industry is already rolling out an emergency alert system:"Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service""Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) is a broadcasting service that can be offered via existing GSM and UMTS cellular networks... MBMS uses multicast distribution in the core network instead of point-to-point links for each end device. MBMS will start to be rolled out in cellular networks during 2008... The broadcast capability enables to reach unlimited number of users with constant network load. Further it also enables the possibility to broadcast information simultaneously to many cellular subscribers for example emergency alerts... Cellular TV Broadcasting and MS will give the cellular service providers a very considerable return on their investment in 3G licences and will bring forward the launch of 4G."http://tinyurl.com/2hyaly Radio News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:04:26 -0500 Regarding Pocket Radio's comment. If the cell tower in your immediate area is knocked out of action because of a disaster, you will generally not get a signal. Due to the larger coverage areas of FM and AM broadcasts you will likely still get several radio signals to get emergency info and if using HD radio's data stream, emergency text data can be continually streamed instead of an announcer continually repeating repeating the critical emergency info. http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com Radio News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:56:52 -0500 @on 2009-11-12 11:04:26: Even at $5 per cell phone, this would cost tens-of-millions. Can't mandate FM tuners into anything - HD Radio tried with Satrad and failed. Cell phone failure would be extremely rare. Radio stations' towers probably fall/fail, due to weather conditions, more than cell phone towers ever would. Of course, this all goes back to eventually justifying Struble adding HD Radio, which nobody wants. Even if Congress and the President passed some sort of mandate (good-luck with that and the cell-phone lobbyists), this would be stuck down in court. What a scam. http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com Radio News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:01:15 -0500 One more thing - analog FM has the same capabilites as HD Radio through RDS/SCA services, so don't try and pull that HD Radio BS - LOL! http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com Radio News Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:27:52 -0500 "CTIA also said an Advisory Committee set up by the FCC to evaluate different technologies for an alert system had already recommended the text-message method and it had been approved by the agency." http://thehill.com/hillicon-valley/605-technology/67407-broadcasters-back-fm-tuners-in-cellphonesLooks like another bust for those iBiquity maggots - LOL!