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Is Podcasting a Serious Threat to Sat & HD Radio?

You bet it is!
Here is the link:
http://radio.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=56812
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Actually the article does not mention HD radio. At all. Anywhere. I would question the podcasting angle, however, I don't listen to podcasts since I don't own an I-Pod or whatever it takes to listen to one. In a niche situation I would agree. However most listeners are not in a niche situation. Otherwise you'd hear it on Terrestial radio or Sat Radio. Still, Podcasting does command a limited audience

Clouseau
 
You don't need an I-pod to listen to pod casts. I listen to them right on my desk top useing my i-tunes. The ones I'm subscirbe too automaticly download when a new podcast is posted.
 
Clouseau~
"I don't listen to podcasts since I don't own an I-Pod or whatever it takes to listen to one."

You at least have a computer, don't you? Access to one with Winamp (or the lowest-common denominator, Windows Media Player) and a sound card even, perhaps??

I think the term "Podcasting" is misleading because it seems to imply that it's limited to one specific playback device. I don't have an Apple I-Pod, nor do I intend on getting one at any time in the future.

However, I have a Panasonic CD player with MPEG3 support and I have been known to listen to this type of content on there from time to time. Even my DVD player has been known to play some.........

(By the way, BMX Radio is coming to aggregators everywhere in January! I'm truly going to be "tuning in"...shameless plug.............. ;o)
 
clouseau said:
You bet it is!
Here is the link:
http://radio.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=56812
Click to expand...

Actually the article does not mention HD radio. At all. Anywhere. I would question the podcasting angle, however, I don't listen to podcasts since I don't own an I-Pod or whatever it takes to listen to one. In a niche situation I would agree. However most listeners are not in a niche situation. Otherwise you'd hear it on Terrestial radio or Sat Radio. Still, Podcasting does command a limited audience

Clouseau
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Your computer must be broken.
If your computer is working (you are reading this, aren't you?) and it has a working sound card and a software media player, such as Windows Media Player that comes with Windows, and any internet connection, you can download and/or stream and listen to podcasts. No iPod necessary.
Millions are listening to podcasts RIGHT NOW. More people then to many radio stations. So, how is that a "niche situation" with "limited audience"?
Millions of new podcast and streaming radio listeners are joining the new media revolution, every month.
Why or how would I bother listening to someone elses choice of podcasts or internet radio streams on terrestrial or sat radio, when I can listen to my own choices, whenever I wish?
There is no need to put podcasts and internet stations on the broadcast AM or FM radio, almost everyone is already listening to the new media revolution on their computers, MP3 players, cell phones, pocket PC's, WI-FI connections, internet radios, etc.
People are tuning old media out, and joining the new media revolution.
You have it backwards. Radio stations and sat radio realize the mass audience, promotional exposure, and advertisng potential of podcasting and streaming and are initiating podcasts to join the wave. HD radio and HD2, 3 etc. are just streamcasts and podcasts put on the new broadcast buzz band.
Millions of listeners have turned away from satillite, and broadcast radio in favor of better new media. They are not buying into defective, unnecessary, interfering, HD radio because more and better choices are available by streaming and podcasts.
Audience loss is why broadcasters are in such a panic, and are grasping at straws, like HD radio.
I did hear that a station in San Francisco was broadcasting podcasts. Perhaps others are also joining the rush by airing new media.
Most stations stream on the internet and many offer podcasts of their shows.
You are out of touch or in denial.
Some broadcast stations already have more listeners to their internet streams and podcasts then their over the air signal!
 
I don't own an iPod yet, as I have little use for one, but my car CD player can play discs with mp3 files.

I often burn podcasts/shows onto CD-RWs and listen in the car. Much cheaper than an iPod, and I don't have to worry about breaking it or having it stolen.
 
FightingIrish said:
I don't own an iPod yet, as I have little use for one, but my car CD player can play discs with mp3 files.

I often burn podcasts/shows onto CD-RWs and listen in the car. Much cheaper than an iPod, and I don't have to worry about breaking it or having it stolen.
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Good idea. Podcasts are available to everyone with an internet connection and a computer. No iPod necessary. After all, they are just encoded audio files (usually MP3), in a thin RSS notification wrapper, and easy, direct download of the enclosed MP3 audio file is usually given as an option.
The sources are still podcasts, streams and MP3's no matter that you recorded them from your computer to CD's. That proves the point that you don't need an iPod to enjoy streams and podcasts. The "don't have and iPod" post seems as if it was just a "red herring".
 
Here is the way:
Podcasting takes ears away from AM and FM radio. When it is combined with all types of internet radio, here are the comparitive results:

2010-INTERNET BEATS BROADCAST RADIO!
According to:
http://www.bridgeratings.com/press_071906-digitalprojectionsupdwradio.htm
All forms of Internet Radio's total cume, incuding cell streaming from the internet, and podcasting by 2010 will equal:
Internet Radio 187.33 million
Wireless Internet 159.23 million
Mobile Phone Streaming (from internet) 11.81 million
Podcasting 3.95 million

TOTAL INTERNET CUME in 2010 = 362.32 million

While the terrestrial broadcast radio total cume is projected to be only: 278.59 million.
Internet cume beating terrestrial cume by 83.73 million by 2010.
That is only about 3 years from now!
HD Radio will only be at a miserable 8.84 million cume. Not enough to sustain thousands of HD stations.
 
SUPERCASTER said:
Here is the way:
Podcasting takes ears away from AM and FM radio. When it is combined with all types of internet radio, here are the comparitive results:

2010-INTERNET BEATS BROADCAST RADIO!
According to:
http://www.bridgeratings.com/press_071906-digitalprojectionsupdwradio.htm
All forms of Internet Radio's total cume, incuding cell streaming from the internet, and podcasting by 2010 will equal:
Internet Radio 187.33 million
Wireless Internet 159.23 million
Mobile Phone Streaming (from internet) 11.81 million
Podcasting 3.95 million

TOTAL INTERNET CUME in 2010 = 362.32 million

While the terrestrial broadcast radio total cume is projected to be only: 278.59 million.
Internet cume beating terrestrial cume by 83.73 million by 2010.
That is only about 3 years from now!
HD Radio will only be at a miserable 8.84 million cume. Not enough to sustain thousands of HD stations.
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Apparently you missed the sarcasm in my post... ;D

Bridge Ratings is a joke. They take surveys at the mall and somehow use them to figure out what's happening in 2020.

Yeah - right...
 
ElCheapo said:
SUPERCASTER said:
Here is the way:
Podcasting takes ears away from AM and FM radio. When it is combined with all types of internet radio, here are the comparitive results:

2010-INTERNET BEATS BROADCAST RADIO!
According to:
http://www.bridgeratings.com/press_071906-digitalprojectionsupdwradio.htm
All forms of Internet Radio's total cume, incuding cell streaming from the internet, and podcasting by 2010 will equal:
Internet Radio 187.33 million
Wireless Internet 159.23 million
Mobile Phone Streaming (from internet) 11.81 million
Podcasting 3.95 million

TOTAL INTERNET CUME in 2010 = 362.32 million

While the terrestrial broadcast radio total cume is projected to be only: 278.59 million.
Internet cume beating terrestrial cume by 83.73 million by 2010.
That is only about 3 years from now!
HD Radio will only be at a miserable 8.84 million cume. Not enough to sustain thousands of HD stations.
Click to expand...

Apparently you missed the sarcasm in my post... ;D

Bridge Ratings is a joke. They take surveys at the mall and somehow use them to figure out what's happening in 2020.

Yeah - right...
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Although more popular, podcasting is not really a threat to HD Radio - but what is a huge threat, are iPods and MP3s, as indicated, by this graph of consumer trends:

http://www.google.com/trends?q="hd+radio",+podcast,+sirius,+ipod,+mp3&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
 
ElCheapo said:
700WLW said:
Although more popular, podcasting is not really a threat to HD Radio - but what is a huge threat, are iPods and MP3s, as indicated, by this graph of consumer trends:

http://www.google.com/trends?q="hd+radio",+podcast,+sirius,+ipod,+mp3&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
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Since you love Google Trends so much, give this one a try...

http://www.google.com/trends?q="hd+radio",+dxing&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
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Oh, but this one is much more relevant to HD Radio:

http://www.google.com/trends?q="hd+radio",+maggot,+cockroach,+leech&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
 
Hi everyone:
clouseau said:
You bet it is!
Here is the link:
http://radio.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=56812
Click to expand...

Actually the article does not mention HD radio. At all. Anywhere. I would question the podcasting angle, however, I don't listen to podcasts since I don't own an I-Pod or whatever it takes to listen to one. In a niche situation I would agree. However most listeners are not in a niche situation. Otherwise you'd hear it on Terrestial radio or Sat Radio. Still, Podcasting does command a limited audience
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Yeah what zman said above. Not only that, but podcasting commands an audience that's only as limited as your imagination. Same goes for streaming Internet Radio nowadays too. :D

Cheers :D
 
ElCheapo said:
700WLW said:
Although more popular, podcasting is not really a threat to HD Radio - but what is a huge threat, are iPods and MP3s, as indicated, by this graph of consumer trends:

http://www.google.com/trends?q="hd+radio",+podcast,+sirius,+ipod,+mp3&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
Click to expand...

Since you love Google Trends so much, give this one a try...

http://www.google.com/trends?q="hd+radio",+dxing&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
Click to expand...
What has DXing got to do with this topic?

Try this:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22hd+radio%22%2C+podcast%2C+internet+radio%2C+streaming%2C&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
 
Everyone who keeps posting that Internet radio will kill FM, AM, XM etc... GET A LIFE!
 
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