Re: Move Am's to channels 5&6?

m II wrote:
> gallant17@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 
>>  It’s a dramatic idea that would change infrastructure reaching back
to the
>>  very roots of our industry.  A group made up primarily of broadcast
>>  consulting engineers proposes a new use for TV Channels 5 and 6 in the
>>  United States once their occupants migrate to digital. It recommends
the
>>  reallocation of part of that spectrum for the use of the country’s
AM
>>  stations.  
> 
> Looks like a sleazy way to be able to charge people for what they now
> get for nothing. There's no other explanation. Why don't they move the
> interference causing IBOC station up there instead of the normal AM
> operations? This thing isn't designed to save AM. If it's true that
> there isn't an audience now, why should being forced to buy a new radio
>  solve the problem? Once everything is digital, the subscriber card
> needed to make it all work is with us.
> 
> 
> mike
> 
> 
What about places where FM doesn't work?  AM radio is all we got.