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

"Dave" <dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>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.

Not to mention that the VHF TV channels are NOT going away when analog
goes 
dark next February. Those with analog channels on VHF and DTV on UHF will,

for the most part, move their DTV to their VHF channels when analog goes 
dark.