National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC), meeting at NAB Radio Sho...
National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC), meeting at NAB Radio Show in Seattle, said it had formally opened process to set technical standard for in-band, on-channel (IBOC) DAB service in AM and FM bands as prelude to commercial launch of…
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first IBOC receivers in early 2003. New working group has been formed within NRSC to draft voluntary standards on IBOC AM and FM transmissions. FCC has been studying NRSC- submitted IBOC test data as part of rulemaking on terrestrial digital radio and is expected to “issue an initial action” later this year, NRSC said. NRSC development came day before NAB Pres. Edward Fritts opened Radio Show with speech hailing IBOC DAB as “potentially the biggest change for radio since the introduction of FM broadcasting. At same time, Fritts took aim at satellite digital radio competitors Sirius and XM as having tried to “build their business by criticizing local radio.” Fritts said NAB “will continue to insist that XM and Sirius are held to the rules” under which their services were licensed by FCC, meaning that terrestrial repeaters were designed to fill in coverage gaps and “not to sneak in locally originated programming or advertising.”