ARLA/CLUSTER: Petição para transmissões totalmente digitais "broadcasting" na banda de Ondas Médias / AM nos EUA

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

FCC asked to allow all-digital on AM band

Radio World reports a prominent advocate for the AM band is
petitioning the FCC to allow stations to use all-digital transmissions
in the United States

The Radio World story says:

Bryan Broadcasting Corp. on Monday filed a petition for rulemaking
asking the commission to initiate a proceeding to authorize the MA3
all-digital mode of HD Radio for any AM station that chooses to do so.

Permitting such modernization would “give AM broadcasters a needed
innovative tool with which to compete” without harming others in the
spectrum ecosystem, it wrote.

Bryan is licensee of four AM stations, five FMs and six FM translators
in Central Texas. Ben Downs is the vice president and general manager,
and submitted the petition along with the company’s attorney David
Oxenford of Wilkinson Barker Knauer. Downs also has served on the NAB
board in the past, and he has been a vocal advocate for various
regulatory steps to “revitalize” the AM band.

All HD Radio receivers in the market that have AM functionality would
be able to receive such all-digital signals. But legacy AM receivers
would not, which has long been a barrier to serious discussion of
all-digital. Now, some observers say, the availability of FM
translators for AM licensees has made something that once seemed
unthinkable at least worth discussing.

Read the full story at
https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/bryan-broadcasting-asks-fcc-to-allow-all-digital-am