FCC Issues Notice Of Inquiry RE: Hd Radio Inclusion In SDARS
As expected, the FCC has begun its inquisition into whether iBiquity’s HD Radio should be included into Sirius XM radios.
“As an initial matter, (the FCC) seeks comment on the extent to which the market is already making multi-functional radio receivers available to the public that include 2 or more of the following capabilities: SDARS, HD Radio, iPod/MP3, Internet or any other technologies capable of providing audio entertainment services.”
The full Notice of Inquiry indicates what will inevitably be a very protracted undertaking that may make the Sirius XM merger look like it was fast-tracked. One of my biggest issues in the merger process was that I questioned the authority of the FCC to mandate such a communistic idea as HD inclusion. One of the most noteworthy comments in briefly reading the NOI, is that the commission seeks comment on whether the Commission has the jurisdiction to mandate the inclusion of HD Radio, SDARS, or any other audio technology in receivers.
Full FCC Notice Of Inquiry
FCC is stroking Rehr’s balls.
This is such bullshit that they woudl even entertain this crap after what these companies and investors went through and continue to go through because of the extra 7 months in friggin delays.
How will this “inquiry” impact Mel’s future plans? Will it sideline any plans? Is it mostly a non-event? What comes next? Your article and the big FCC logo appear ominous and terrifying. You might consider removing or diminutizing the FCC logo – unless this really is a big deal. Are you giving credence to an issue that is for practical purposes a nonevent? I am asking because I don’t know.
What a bunch of slimeballs at iBiquity – trying to force their snake-oil technology into Satrad, which doesn’t even work. I’de like to see, if the FCC even has the authority to pull off this scam.
I say the FCC cannot force makers of receivers into including HD chips. Then company will have to pay companies for this. It is BS!!! As a consumer…maybe I don’t want this crap on my receiver!!!!!
Remember “Wag the Dog”? I gratefully enjoyed an extra role in it but avoided the ‘food’ table. Usually lavish, Wag’s producer provided a dog’s breakfast. Many actors got food poisoning. Some walked off the set (see: ‘You’ll never work in this town again’). Here they were exonerated, as the producer was known to stuff it down peoples’ throats so as to win at all costs.
Is that iNiquity’s approach? Didn’t it hope to keep HD secret until 2012 when we’d awaken to rattlesnake HD hissing on AM&FM? Doesn’t HD jam other stations? Aren’t HD stooge-radios costly and erratic? Why does the HD tail forever wag radio? Why must HD win at all costs, even as citizens and broadcasters lose?
Wasn’t the satellite delay a result of HD’s tail wagging the dog? If SatRad listeners didn’t want HD previously, did the HD gang’s delaying tactic win their favor?
Is anything believable about HD, besides undeniable jamming to AM & FM? Hasn’t HD’s transcontinental jamming ruined nighttime AM?
Why does iNiquity believe stuffing HD down our throats will gain our favor?
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
26 August, 2008