Clear Channel scouring MySpace Music for HD talent

[PocketRadio]

"NEW UNSIGNED ACTS ADDED ON 'UNDISCOVERED' HD RADIO STATION"

"Here's a list of unsigned acts recently added into rotation on Clear Channel's 'Undiscovered' HD Radio station: (intheclear), 2nd Half, Animal Alpha, Annie Minogue Band, Barcelona, Buddy, Chandelle, Chapter 11, Choir Boy, Cinjun Tate, Darrell Scott, Deccatree, Elizabeth and the Catapult, The Hampdens, The Hedrons, Hensley, Jake Dynnis, Jim Bianco, Joe Purdy, John James Newman, Linda Strawberry, Lukewarm Freeda, Mother Superior, Shannon Eileen, The Swear, Upside, Verra Cruz, World Without Sundays..."

http://talentfilter.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-unsigned-acts-added-on-undiscovered.html

"HD Digital Radio"

"Joke Joke, Vinyl Vineyard, Hip Hop, Old School Hip Hop, Comedy, Gospel, Young/Hip/Chill, KiWi Radio, Endless Love, Mother Trucker, The Buzzard Basement, Kiss 2 Funk, Xtreme Hip Hop, Groove, Indepedent Underground (Undies), Fuzic, Beat Street, Hallelujah, Phusion Dance, ..."

http://www.kgot.com/cc-common/hdradio/player1.html?thestation=

I was almost too embarrassed to post this - the broadcast industry has sunk to a new low. Now, back to the Reds on WLW.

 

[PocketRadio]

"Radio One pulls a shocking move for a HD-2"

"And puts Dance Music on one! Disco 93.9 HD-2 for those of you that have HD Radios in DC. They're supposed to play Current and Classic Dance."

http://tinyurl.com/yofu3j

WOW - just shocking ! What about Donny Osmond ?

 

[radiopilot]

"Radio One pulls a shocking move for a HD-2"

"And puts Dance Music on one! Disco 93.9 HD-2 for those of you that have HD Radios in DC. They're supposed to play Current and Classic Dance."

http://tinyurl.com/yofu3j

WOW - just shocking !  What about Donny Osmond ? 

It's already there in NYC's HD2 station....

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,66962.0.html

I can't believe an HD2 just dedicated to this... even if he had some hits back in the 70's, who wants to listen to this 24/7. It was bad enough listening to Donny's songs as a kid... now he has his own channel?

Can't wait for the Monkey's to have their own show on HD2 in NYC, and then Captain Kangaroo on the HD3 channel next! LOL!

Radiopilot

 

[clouseau]

"Radio One pulls a shocking move for a HD-2"

"And puts Dance Music on one! Disco 93.9 HD-2 for those of you that have HD Radios in DC. They're supposed to play Current and Classic Dance."

http://tinyurl.com/yofu3j

WOW - just shocking ! What about Donny Osmond ?

It's already there in NYC's HD2 station....

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,66962.0.html

I can't believe an HD2 just dedicated to this... even if he had some hits back in the 70's, who wants to listen to this 24/7. It was bad enough listening to Donny's songs as a kid... now he has his own channel?

Can't wait for the Monkey's to have their own show on HD2 in NYC, and then Captain Kangaroo on the HD3 channel next! LOL!

Radiopilot

This thread is exactly the thrust of the Anti HD gang's overall campaign.

After establishing that HD Radio is just more of the "same old same old" in other threads, they post about how bad it is that a station is out looking for new talent. Unsigned even. Stuff no one heard before. What a Joke.

And another station plays Disco. (Don't know if that's the same old same old or revolutionary. I'm sure it's bad either way.

And then the completely off base, Einsteininan like "Donny Osmond 24/7" take resurfaces. It's completely made up, but it still sounds good to them.

You guys are really on a roll.

Clouseau

 

[scanman1]

Quote: "NEW UNSIGNED ACTS ADDED ON 'UNDISCOVERED' HD RADIO STATION"

That's awesome! Radio stations playing something other than "researched hits" is the type of radio I'd want to hear! Now, if only someone would launch a station like that in my neck of the woods, me and my HD receivers would be very happy. 8)

 

[dallas2006]

This thread is exactly the thrust of the Anti HD gang's overall campaign.

After establishing that HD Radio is just more of the "same old same old" in other threads, they post about how bad it is that a station is out looking for new talent. Unsigned even. Stuff no one heard before. What a Joke.

And another station plays Disco. (Don't know if that's the same old same old or revolutionary. I'm sure it's bad either way.

And then the completely off base, Einsteininan like "Donny Osmond 24/7" take resurfaces. It's completely made up, but it still sounds good to them.

You guys are really on a roll.

Clouseau

Yup. Yer damned if you do and yer damned if you don't. It's a shame this board doesn't have an ignore function.

 

[PocketRadio]

"NEW UNSIGNED ACTS ADDED ON 'UNDISCOVERED' HD RADIO STATION"

"Here's a list of unsigned acts recently added into rotation on Clear Channel's 'Undiscovered' HD Radio station: (intheclear), 2nd Half, Animal Alpha, Annie Minogue Band, Barcelona, Buddy, Chandelle, Chapter 11, Choir Boy, Cinjun Tate, Darrell Scott, Deccatree, Elizabeth and the Catapult, The Hampdens, The Hedrons, Hensley, Jake Dynnis, Jim Bianco, Joe Purdy, John James Newman, Linda Strawberry, Lukewarm Freeda, Mother Superior, Shannon Eileen, The Swear, Upside, Verra Cruz, World Without Sundays..."

http://talentfilter.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-unsigned-acts-added-on-undiscovered.html

"HD Digital Radio"

"Joke Joke, Vinyl Vineyard, Hip Hop, Old School Hip Hop, Comedy, Gospel, Young/Hip/Chill, KiWi Radio, Endless Love, Mother Trucker, The Buzzard Basement, Kiss 2 Funk, Xtreme Hip Hop, Groove, Indepedent Underground (Undies), Fuzic, Beat Street, Hallelujah, Phusion Dance, ..."

http://www.kgot.com/cc-common/hdradio/player1.html?thestation=

I was almost too embarrassed to post this - the broadcast industry has sunk to a new low. Now, back to the Reds on WLW.

"MORE NEW ARTISTS ADDED TO CLEAR CHANNEL 'UNDISCOVERED' HD RADIO STATION"

"The following acts have new music being officially being added into rotation on Clear Channel's 'Undiscovered' HD Radio station"

http://talentfilter.blogspot.com/2007/07/more-new-artists-added-to-clear-channel.html

Oh Boy - more losers added the redundant, rotational playlists !

 

[Mike Walker]

To people IN radio, who actually know how to reach, and maintain an audience (from years, or decades of doing just that), these all seem like great ideas. These are all sizable niches not being served...EXACTLY what HD SHOULD be doing!

Are you forgetting that for many years WKTU in New York DOMINATED with a dance music format, or that it hasn't been that long since dance music changed the entire culture. People who participated in, and enjoyed that didn't just crawl in a hole and die. They're out there. WE are out there! (Dance music is FUN...even for old, blind, fat guys).

One thing the "Disco Sucks" contingent from the 70s and early 80s never got is that DISCO never went away. it infiltrated all corners of pop music, where it survives, and THRIVES to this day...unlike the album rock stations which promoted the "Disco is dead" myth. THEY are nearly all gone! "Classic Rock" ain't the same thing. It's just the oldies formula, same damn tracks over and over, with a little harder edge.

 

[R.F. Burns]

To people IN radio, who actually know how to reach, and maintain an audience (from years, or decades of doing just that), these all seem like great ideas. These are all sizable niches not being served...EXACTLY what HD SHOULD be doing!

Are you forgetting that for many years WKTU in New York DOMINATED with a dance music format, or that it hasn't been that long since dance music changed the entire culture. People who participated in, and enjoyed that didn't just crawl in a hole and die. They're out there. WE are out there! (Dance music is FUN...even for old, blind, fat guys).

One thing the "Disco Sucks" contingent from the 70s and early 80s never got is that DISCO never went away. it infiltrated all corners of pop music, where it survives, and THRIVES to this day...unlike the album rock stations which promoted the "Disco is dead" myth. THEY are nearly all gone! "Classic Rock" ain't the same thing. It's just the oldies formula, same damn tracks over and over, with a little harder edge.

Actually WAXQ will broadcast this weekends Live earth concert only on it's HD 2 channel with some highlights on their analog/HD1 channel.

 

[Mike Walker]

Another great use for an HD2 channel (the Live Earth concert). THIS would be a great use for "conditional access"...charge money to hear the entire concert, donating much/all of it to charity.

 

[vsa]

Another great use for an HD2 channel (the Live Earth concert). THIS would be a great use for "conditional access"...charge money to hear the entire concert, donating much/all of it to charity.

Right. I'm gonna run right out and pay $200 for an HD radio and hook up an antenna in my attic so I can then pay extra money to listen to a concert that I can see and hear for free at this link online:

http://liveearth.msn.com/concerts/US

There are millions of people who own an Internet-capable cell phone or other hand-held device and tens of millions more who can just fire-up a web browser on their Internet-connected desktop or laptop computer and enjoy the show. Like it or not, the web is revolutionizing media.

 

[R.F. Burns]

Another great use for an HD2 channel (the Live Earth concert). THIS would be a great use for "conditional access"...charge money to hear the entire concert, donating much/all of it to charity.

Right. I'm gonna run right out and pay $200 for an HD radio and hook up an antenna in my attic so I can then pay extra money to listen to a concert that I can see and hear for free at this link online:

http://liveearth.msn.com/concerts/US

There are millions of people who own an Internet-capable cell phone or other hand-held device and tens of millions more who can just fire-up a web browser on their Internet-connected desktop or laptop computer and enjoy the show. Like it or not, the web is revolutionizing media.

So don't buy the radio. By the way, in NYC WAXQ is going to be transmitting the concert live in full on its HD2 channel. No charge for the concert. You can't take a $200 radio from 2007 and extrapolate that into what may happen 10 years later. By the way, sure people have internet but you can't use it in the car. As others have pointed out, not everyone has access to or can afford high speed internet. No conditional access yet. It's just a thought for the future.

 

[vsa]

R.F. Burns wrote: "So don't buy the radio."

That's my point. Nobody is buying them.

R.F. Burns also wrote: "...sure people have internet but you can't use it in the car. As others have pointed out, not everyone has access to or can afford high speed internet..."

U-S broadband penetration at-home is now 47 percent. Monthly charges run as little as $15. If you can't afford that, you can't afford an HD radio and it's "radio stations in-a-box". People have been voting with their pocketbooks and HD radio is getting whipped by the write-in candidates.

I access the Internet wirelessly in my car every day - on my hand-held device and/or my tethered laptop. $40 per month for wireless broadband and getting cheaper. I'm far from alone.

 

[R.F. Burns]

R.F. Burns wrote: "So don't buy the radio."

That's my point. Nobody is buying them.

R.F. Burns also wrote: "...sure people have internet but you can't use it in the car. As others have pointed out, not everyone has access to or can afford high speed internet..."

U-S broadband penetration at-home is now 47 percent. Monthly charges run as little as $15. If you can't afford that, you can't afford an HD radio and it's "radio stations in-a-box". People have been voting with their pocketbooks and HD radio is getting whipped by the write-in candidates.

I access the Internet wirelessly in my car every day - on my hand-held device and/or my tethered laptop. $40 per month for wireless broadband and getting cheaper. I'm far from alone.

Your statement that NOBODY is buying these radios. Uhh, what is your basis for this statement? Do you have access to numbers which the rest of us don't? I'm being serious, you said nobody is buying these radios. That differs with what I've read. Oh and another 40 dollars a month for wireless internet? Do you have a internet car radio? Is the coverage seamless or is it like cell phone coverage with lots of dropouts and weak signal areas (and this is in a major urban environment) The kind where most people live. How much did that internet car radio cost by the way? On another similar topic pleae read my comments concerning the difference between radio and broadcasting. I guess this comes from someone who doesn't live in an area where stations are unattended and are satellite fed from a distant city. As tough as it is to unuderstand your radio situation, I'm sure you really can't understand mine either. If you speak Korean or Polish we have 24 hour stations providing programing in thiose languages as well. I read alll sorts of commments concerning programing issues, just what is it you would like to hear on the radio. Let's see if we have anything to suit you.

 

[vsa]

R.F. Burns wrote: "So don't buy the radio."

That's my point. Nobody is buying them.

R.F. Burns also wrote: "...sure people have internet but you can't use it in the car. As others have pointed out, not everyone has access to or can afford high speed internet..."

U-S broadband penetration at-home is now 47 percent. Monthly charges run as little as $15. If you can't afford that, you can't afford an HD radio and it's "radio stations in-a-box". People have been voting with their pocketbooks and HD radio is getting whipped by the write-in candidates.

I access the Internet wirelessly in my car every day - on my hand-held device and/or my tethered laptop. $40 per month for wireless broadband and getting cheaper. I'm far from alone.

Your statement that NOBODY is buying these radios. Uhh, what is your basis for this statement? Do you have access to numbers which the rest of us don't? I'm being serious, you said nobody is buying these radios. That differs with what I've read. Oh and another 40 dollars a month for wireless internet? Do you have a internet car radio? Is the coverage seamless or is it like cell phone coverage with lots of dropouts and weak signal areas (and this is in a major urban environment) The kind where most people live. How much did that internet car radio cost by the way? On another similar topic pleae read my comments concerning the difference between radio and broadcasting. I guess this comes from someone who doesn't live in an area where stations are unattended and are satellite fed from a distant city. As tough as it is to unuderstand your radio situation, I'm sure you really can't understand mine either. If you speak Korean or Polish we have 24 hour stations providing programing in thiose languages as well. I read alll sorts of commments concerning programing issues, just what is it you would like to hear on the radio. Let's see if we have anything to suit you.

Nobody is buying HD radios. I'm basing my assertion on a personal conversation I had with an iBiquity representative at the NAB Show in Las Vegas this year. You read propaganda. I talked with the source directly.

My Verizon Wireless EV-DO Internet access is seamless with more complete coverage than the Mt. Wilson FM stations in Los Angeles. Certainly much more seamless than HD radio coverage. The EV-DO coverage is presently being upgraded to Revision A, full broadband speeds of 1.5M DOWN and 768kbps UP. And this is even before Wimax becomes fully deployed. Sprint is doing that right now.

U-S broadband penetration at-home is now 47 percent. Monthly charges run as little as $15. If you can't afford that, you can't afford an HD radio and it's computer-based "radio stations in-a-box". People have been voting with their pocketbooks and HD radio is getting whipped by the write-in candidates.

I access the Internet wirelessly in my car every day - on my hand-held device and/or my tethered laptop. $40 per month for wireless broadband and getting cheaper. I'm far from alone.

 

[R.F. Burns]

R.F. Burns wrote: "So don't buy the radio."

That's my point. Nobody is buying them.

R.F. Burns also wrote: "...sure people have internet but you can't use it in the car. As others have pointed out, not everyone has access to or can afford high speed internet..."

U-S broadband penetration at-home is now 47 percent. Monthly charges run as little as $15. If you can't afford that, you can't afford an HD radio and it's "radio stations in-a-box". People have been voting with their pocketbooks and HD radio is getting whipped by the write-in candidates.

I access the Internet wirelessly in my car every day - on my hand-held device and/or my tethered laptop. $40 per month for wireless broadband and getting cheaper. I'm far from alone.

Your statement that NOBODY is buying these radios. Uhh, what is your basis for this statement? Do you have access to numbers which the rest of us don't? I'm being serious, you said nobody is buying these radios. That differs with what I've read. Oh and another 40 dollars a month for wireless internet? Do you have a internet car radio? Is the coverage seamless or is it like cell phone coverage with lots of dropouts and weak signal areas (and this is in a major urban environment) The kind where most people live. How much did that internet car radio cost by the way? On another similar topic pleae read my comments concerning the difference between radio and broadcasting. I guess this comes from someone who doesn't live in an area where stations are unattended and are satellite fed from a distant city. As tough as it is to unuderstand your radio situation, I'm sure you really can't understand mine either. If you speak Korean or Polish we have 24 hour stations providing programing in thiose languages as well. I read alll sorts of commments concerning programing issues, just what is it you would like to hear on the radio. Let's see if we have anything to suit you.

Nobody is buying HD radios. I'm basing my assertion on a personal conversation I had with an iBiquity representative at the NAB Show in Las Vegas this year. You read propaganda. I talked with the source directly.

My Verizon Wireless EV-DO Internet access is seamless with more complete coverage than the Mt. Wilson FM stations in Los Angeles. Certainly much more seamless than HD radio coverage. The EV-DO coverage is presently being upgraded to Revision A, full broadband speeds of 1.5M DOWN and 768kbps UP. And this is even before Wimax becomes fully deployed. Sprint is doing that right now.

U-S broadband penetration at-home is now 47 percent. Monthly charges run as little as $15. If you can't afford that, you can't afford an HD radio and it's computer-based "radio stations in-a-box". People have been voting with their pocketbooks and HD radio is getting whipped by the write-in candidates.

I access the Internet wirelessly in my car every day - on my hand-held device and/or my tethered laptop. $40 per month for wireless broadband and getting cheaper. I'm far from alone.

That's very interesting. I don't know who the Ibiquity rep was but that's not what they told us at our local SBE meeting. Ibiquity themselve have stated that over 200,000 radios have been sold. Companies such as Sony wouldn't be getting into this is these radios weren't selling. I've been told that Boston Acoustics lowered their Receptor price because they were dumping radios. That was in the Spring of last year and they are still selling HD Receptors. Sangean is already selling 3 HD radios. Radiosophy is on their second unit. New radios wouldn't be designed if NOBODY was buying them. Now I don't know about others but in my area of NY state high speed cable internet is $50 a month. How are you connecting to the internet wirelessly? Are you doing it via cell towers? Does that $40 afford you unlimited service 24/7? Is it absolutely seamless coverage?

 

[PocketRadio]

That's very interesting. I don't know who the Ibiquity rep was but that's not what they told us at our local SBE meeting. Ibiquity themselve have stated that over 200,000 radios have been sold. Companies such as Sony wouldn't be getting into this is these radios weren't selling. I've been told that Boston Acoustics lowered their Receptor price because they were dumping radios. That was in the Spring of last year and they are still selling HD Receptors. Sangean is already selling 3 HD radios. Radiosophy is on their second unit. New radios wouldn't be designed if NOBODY was buying them. Now I don't know about others but in my area of NY state high speed cable internet is $50 a month. How are you connecting to the internet wirelessly? Are you doing it via cell towers? Does that $40 afford you unlimited service 24/7? Is it absolutely seamless coverage?

Struble also admitted to 150,000, but we all know that number is way too high. Sangean flubbed the HDT-1, so now they have come out with the HDT-1X. Master Theseus has admitted that Sangean is having a very difficult time selling HD radios, except to the radio-geeks. No one in buying HD radios outside of radio-geeks, especially the Accurian HD and the Receptor HD. You are starting to sound desperate.

 

[R.F. Burns]

That's very interesting. I don't know who the Ibiquity rep was but that's not what they told us at our local SBE meeting. Ibiquity themselve have stated that over 200,000 radios have been sold. Companies such as Sony wouldn't be getting into this is these radios weren't selling. I've been told that Boston Acoustics lowered their Receptor price because they were dumping radios. That was in the Spring of last year and they are still selling HD Receptors. Sangean is already selling 3 HD radios. Radiosophy is on their second unit. New radios wouldn't be designed if NOBODY was buying them. Now I don't know about others but in my area of NY state high speed cable internet is $50 a month. How are you connecting to the internet wirelessly? Are you doing it via cell towers? Does that $40 afford you unlimited service 24/7? Is it absolutely seamless coverage?

I wish I could say what I really feel about this last post of yours. Sangean produced a radio which you say is flawed. Sangean has already developed a firm wear fix and they have offered to take the radios back, fix them and return them to their owners if they'd like (a small bit of information you left out of your post, but I digress) and yet you condem a technology for this? The new HDT-1's don't have these problems (clock and output levels) but you insist the problems still exist. Then you say that the 1X is a replacement for the 1. Another lie coming directly from your keyboard. The 1X was developed after those of us who own the radio contacted Master Theous requesting certain changes be made to improve the HDT-1, such as forced analog/digital modes and a spidf output etc. Sangean will continue to produce the HDT-1 and wil be releasing the 1X as a deluxe model to the public this Wednesday. They quickly sold every prerelease 1X within a few weeks, by the way. I received mine about 2 or 3 weeks ago and it's an outstanding receiver. What is it with your character that you feel you must pathologically lie to us? You make statements which can be proven false with little effort but still you insist on acting like a spoiled child when those points are shot down. Eventually all this lying will catch up with you I guess, but don't say the grass is orange when we all know it's green. the big lie didn't work for Joseph Goebbels either. If you really had good arguments to back up this you wouldn't need to lie. By the way, Master Theous who I have been in contact with never made the statement you quoted him as saying.

 

[radiopilot]

Sangean produced a radio which you say is flawed. Sangean has already developed a firm wear fix and they have offered to take the radios back, fix them and return them to their owners if they'd like (a small bit of information you left out of your post, but I digress) and yet you condem a technology for this? The new HDT-1's don't have these problems (clock and output levels) but you insist the problems still exist. Then you say that the 1X is a replacement for the 1. Another lie coming directly from your keyboard. The 1X was developed after those of us who own the radio contacted Master Theous requesting certain changes be made to improve the HDT-1, such as forced analog/digital modes and a spidf output etc. Sangean will continue to produce the HDT-1 and wil be releasing the 1X as a deluxe model to the public this Wednesday.

This sounds more like a defect and flawed technology released to the public otherwise there would be no update, or new release of the same unit only one year later, YES the HDT-1 does have problems and it was posted here by myself and others although you tend to believe you and the NYC HD broadcasting has no issues whatsoever, you're living in some dream world.

Just like any other RECALL of autos, and other consumer products, the fact that Sangean would like you to send back the units is BEACUSE they are defective... DUHHH what a brainiac!

Radiopilot

 

[R.F. Burns]

Sangean produced a radio which you say is flawed. Sangean has already developed a firm wear fix and they have offered to take the radios back, fix them and return them to their owners if they'd like (a small bit of information you left out of your post, but I digress) and yet you condem a technology for this? The new HDT-1's don't have these problems (clock and output levels) but you insist the problems still exist. Then you say that the 1X is a replacement for the 1. Another lie coming directly from your keyboard. The 1X was developed after those of us who own the radio contacted Master Theous requesting certain changes be made to improve the HDT-1, such as forced analog/digital modes and a spidf output etc. Sangean will continue to produce the HDT-1 and wil be releasing the 1X as a deluxe model to the public this Wednesday.

This sounds more like a defect and flawed technology released to the public otherwise there would be no update, or new release of the same unit only one year later, YES the HDT-1 does have problems and it was posted here by myself and others although you tend to believe you and the NYC HD broadcasting has no issues whatsoever, you're living in some dream world.

Just like any other RECALL of autos, and other consumer products, the fact that Sangean would like you to send back the units is BEACUSE they are defective... DUHHH what a brainiac!

Radiopilot

Hmmm stoop to name calling again and I'll bet you just can't help yourself. I can feel the anger seething. Great maybe I'll read about it in the news. The HDT-1X is a deluxe edition. It does not replace the HDT-1. How many times do I have to repeat that until you get it? Autmobiles come with all sorts of defects which the dealership repairs, under warrenty. That's not the same as a recall. The reason they are accepting radios back is not to replace them but to repair them and return them to the owner. Why don't you ask Master Theous (The Sangean rep) yourself. You guys are too much but the angrier you get the more I like it. Shows this is getting to you. Remember the line, NY, NY, if you can make it there you can make it anywhere!!! Thanks Frank!!