A hybrid digital/analog broadcasting system has been pushed through a perfunctory FCC approval process, by the developer working in concert with the National Association of Broadcasters and large corporate radio groups to benefit a few big-market Am radio stations.

Not only does "In-Band", On-Channel" hybrid/analog AM radio not work well - it generates harmful interference which could end AM radio listening as it has existed since 1920.

Meet... And Join... The Anti-IBOC Alliance

Bob Savage, CEO WYSL 1040, Rochester, NY Bob Savage, founder of WYSL 1040, has spent more than 40 years in broadcasting. He built WYSL from a 500-watt daytimer on 1030 kHz twenty years ago to its current powerhouse status with 20,000 watts at 1040. He’s a graduate of Ithaca College and University of Tennessee Law School, and has received full-power TV CPs for St. Thomas, USVI, and Altoona, PA, as well as FMs in Avon and Honeoye Falls, New York. He has represented commercial and educational clients before the FCC, receiving FM grants and has filed Petitions for Rulemaking leading to FCC rule changes. Bob oversees day-to-day and technical operations at WYSL, in New York’s Finger Lakes region south of Rochester.

WATT HAIRSTON: Chief Engineer Gaylord Broadcasting, WSM, Nashville, TN Watt Hairston is Chief Engineer of the legendary WSM, Nashville, Tennessee, which has broadcast the world-famous Grand Ole Opry throughout the southeast and Midwest on its 50,000 watt nondirectional signal for seven decades. Watt’s career spans over 40 years and includes having been corporate chief engineer for Sudbrink Broadcasting, 50,000-watt WLAC Nashville, technical director for WMAK Nashville and staff engineer for Mississippi Authority for Public Television. Watt is a ham operator (KW4RF) and is a member of the IEEE and ARRL, as well as holding an FCC General Radiotelephone License. He also runs Radian Management Services LLC, providing media management and technical services.

JERRY ARNOLD: Director of Engineering Midwest Communications, Terre Haute, IN Jerry’s broadcast career spans more than 40 years and has included not only engineering. He’s one of the relatively rare examples of on-air DJ, radio journalist (having once done as many as 18 newscasts a day) and chief engineer. Jerry was Chief for a 1.3 megawatt full-service TV station at one time but soon returned to his first love, radio. Currently he’s Director of Engineering for Midwest Communications, licensee of WPRS-AM 1440 and WINH-FM, Paris, Illinois, and WMGI-FM and WWSY-FM in Terre Haute, IN. He holds an FCC General Radiotelephone License and is a ham as well (K9AF.)

The IBOC-AM Confessional

Were you forced to install IBOC-AM by management against your best Professional Judgment?