IBOC Now On FCC’s Radar Screen

FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy hopes colleagues will soon approve an initial endorsement of IBOC as the digital radio standard in the U.S. She told attendees at the NAB Radio Show a Report and Order is likely to come out this fall. The timing of the endorsement and a mechanism for allowing early adopters to go on the air may be approved in October or November, with final rules to come in early 2003.