David Rehr on Radios death, by ipod..... letter to LA Times

[tankedsecondchance]

looks like rehr sent a letter to the la times after the less the glowing comments they made.

on radios death by ipod.

I like the part where he states clearly hd radio is in the "embryonic state of digital transformation"

So when does it get started for real

lmao it must be a butterfly......and almost as silent, on the dead side channels

heres the link below, please somebody, just put the radio back into radio my radio...!!!!!!!

http://www.nab.org/xert/corpcomm/pressrel/101106_DKR_LATimes.pdf

 

[tankedsecondchance]

sure hope its not really a locust, as they take about seven years..........

 

[700WLW]

sure hope its not really a locust, as they take about seven years..........

I'm afraid it is - investors have been waiting seven years for a payoff, and iBiquity/HD Radio is two years late !

 

[dbdigital]

looks like rehr sent a letter to the la times after the less the glowing comments they made.

on radios death by ipod.

I like the part where he states clearly hd radio is in the "embryonic state of digital transformation"

So when does it get started for real

lmao it must be a butterfly......and almost as silent, on the dead side channels

heres the link below, please somebody, just put the radio back into radio my radio...!!!!!!!

http://www.nab.org/xert/corpcomm/pressrel/101106_DKR_LATimes.pdf

"CD-quality audio", "no interference"? Looks as if Rehr is doing some truth-stretching about HD Radio in his letter.

But what the LA Times reported isn't news. A Lehman Brothers analyst, Anthony DiClemente, spoke a few days ago of a growing threat to in-car radio listening, where radio has traditionally been at its strongest. To quote the RAIN newsletter: "He theorizes that iPod integration in cars (70% of new cars sold in 2007 will have iPod connectivity) could accelerate a decline in radio TSL, particularly in younger demos."

db

 

[SUPERCASTER]

America's passion for their hometown radio stations is unparilled in the media universe".

-David K. Rehr, President and CEO of the NAB
(See bottom of press release):
http://www.nab.org/xert/corpcomm/pressrel/101106_DKR_LATimes.pdf
David is ignoring the fact that the hometown stations have been, or are being assimilated by the Borg conglomerates.

 

[700WLW]

"Watch for Rehr to React"

http://www.audiographics.com/agd/100906-1.htm

 

[700WLW]

"NAB Calls For Probe Into Satcasters"

"David Rehr has asked the FCC to investigate XM and Sirius over ground repeaters and free offerings of programming."

http://fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=293885

Maybe, someone should investigate the FCC for allowing IBOC's adjacent-channel interference !

 

[tankedsecondchance]

heres a link to another site. that has recent information,that has been sent to many ,news services, regulators, sec ,doj,spitzer, along with many inside the radio/audio broadcasting sector ect.

http://groups.msn.com/SIRIUSALTERNATIVE/jacobysjail.msnw
http://groups.msn.com/SIRIUSALTERNATIVE/jacobysjail.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=19555&LastModified=4675593386823037556

wake up people, your being robbed of the very industry you built...! by a collective few within your own industry............in positions of power

many other people are working the very same issues,im only posting enough to show clearly whats taking place..........

others are working specificly on one part of whats going own......(jacoby)

its not just me that sees whats taking place.........you broadcast owners need to demand action openly..........Jerry Del Colliano makes it clear..

heres the link for his blog http://beta.blogger.com/profile/04029755632215976459

NAB Selling Out Radio (Again) on Consolidation
The National Association of Broadcasters is at it again. The group that helped tuck in legislation to enable radio consolidation in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is now urging the FCC to allow further consolidation. Cross-ownership, a loosening of the limits. It argues that radio needs to be more competitive with other platforms and more consolidation is how they can do it. But broadcasting's own trade association is only finishing what it started -- the demise of localism and pandering to evil empires of consolidators answering to Wall Street not Main Street. And radio broadcasters sit idly by while their lobby group acts in the interest of a few while harming the foundation of radio -- the small, local radio companies. This is why I say again and again that it's not the iPod that is killing radio. Not even the Internet. They are factors, but the real enemy is traditional media -- in this case radio itself. Where's the outrage? Why don't broadcasters reign their lobby group in and take radio back? Some believe -- and I concur -- that the NAB's deft lobbying to get enabling legislation passed to commence consolidation in 1996 may have been the single most destructive act of all. The Benedict Arnold's of radio driving the innovators out of the business and leaving the confused consolidators who can't seem to make the radio industry a growth business even with their present monopoly. Ask Wall Street. Investors have cooled on radio because it is no longer a growth business. Trying to relax the ownership rules further may in their fantasy make radio hot again -- until investors figure out that less competition not only hurts the audience, it eventually hurts the companies that have a proven record of not being able to run what they currently own.

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