{"id":36692,"date":"2019-03-27T06:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T10:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36692"},"modified":"2019-03-27T06:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T10:38:40","slug":"radio-world-bryan-broadcasting-asks-fcc-to-allow-all-digital-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/radio-world-bryan-broadcasting-asks-fcc-to-allow-all-digital-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio World: Bryan Broadcasting Asks FCC to Allow All-Digital AM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Radio World<\/a> via Ulis K3LU<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A prominent advocate for the AM band is petitioning the FCC to allow stations to use all-digital transmissions in the United States.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Permitting such modernization would \u201cgive AM broadcasters a needed innovative tool with which to compete\u201d without harming others in the spectrum ecosystem, it wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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 \u201crevitalize\u201d the AM band.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

There is one AM station in the country with special temporary authority to broadcast in all-digital. Hubbard\u2019s WWFD in Frederick, Md., near the nation\u2019s capital has been on the air since last summer. The station\u2019s Dave Kolesar has been speaking in public about the ongoing experiment and will do so again at the upcoming NAB Show.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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(Source: Radio World via Ulis K3LU) A prominent advocate for the AM band is petitioning the FCC to allow stations to use all-digital transmissions in the United States. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,1114,433,3],"tags":[4866,7168,2477,634,7167],"class_list":["post-36692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-digital-modes","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-am-future","tag-am-hd","tag-hd-radio","tag-radio-world","tag-wwfd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9xO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40411,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/fcc-to-consider-allowing-am-broadcasters-to-transition-to-digital\/","url_meta":{"origin":36692,"position":0},"title":"FCC to consider allowing AM broadcasters to transition to digital","author":"Thomas","date":"October 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio World) All-Digital on the AM Band? The FCC Might Allow It Soon AM radio station operators in the United States may soon have the option of switching their transmissions to all-digital. It\u2019s not a done deal; but the concept is about to take a step closer to reality,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WWFD-AM-HD-Sangean-HDR-14.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WWFD-AM-HD-Sangean-HDR-14.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WWFD-AM-HD-Sangean-HDR-14.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WWFD-AM-HD-Sangean-HDR-14.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":41503,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/radio-world-time-to-sound-off-to-the-fcc-about-using-all-digital-on-the-am-band\/","url_meta":{"origin":36692,"position":1},"title":"Radio World: Time to “sound off to the FCC about using all-digital on the AM band”","author":"Thomas","date":"January 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following note posted by Paul McClane at Radio World: For those who want to sound off to the FCC about using all-digital on the AM band \u2014 either \u201cfer it\u201d or \u201cagin it\u201d \u2014- the comment deadlines now are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW-lg-1024x623.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW-lg-1024x623.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW-lg-1024x623.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":46226,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/fccs-am-digital-order-did-not-include-drm\/","url_meta":{"origin":36692,"position":2},"title":"FCC’s AM digital order did not include DRM","author":"Thomas","date":"October 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This news item expands on our previous post. 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This is close to the final step. https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2020\/01\/07\/2019-27609\/all-digital-am-broadcasting-revitalization-of-the-am-radio-service Comments before 2020-03-09, replies by 2020-04-06. 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Hubbard Radio\u2019s \u201cThe Gamut\u201d 820 WWFD Frederick MD has been operating in all digital mode since July 16, 2018 in collaboration with HD Radio owner Xperi. 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