One has to wonder just how much of a long-term employment prospect iBiquity would be for most employees, anyway. They're pushing their technology to a limited group of people. In this case, radio stations. There are only so many out there. Even if it had taken off wildly and, god forbid, every AM out there took it up, eventually they'd run out of stations to convert.
It only takes a few people to collect welf…I mean licensing fees and keep the software up-to-date. At some point the army of sales weasels will have canvased the entire country and everyone will have been approached. Their jobs were limited to begin with.
Of course, they probably thought ever AM and FM in the US, Canada, Indonesia, Mexico and Thailand WOULD want an IBOC box from them and didn't foresee its total lackluster performance. Still though, the writing was on the wall from pretty much the beginning. Outside of corporate mandates by people with vested interest in the technology, uptake of HD radio was relatively minor. There are very very few small time or independent broadcasters that have taken the plunge.
