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last.fm/disco on 102.7 purposefully shedding drivetime listeners?

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Brooklyndon

I can only speculate theo intention is to shed listeners every morning at 8 am with their stupid public affairs programs that go on for much longer than an NPR segment with awful guests like drug warriors and other idiot non profit directors.

If I wanted to hear that sort of radio I would put on NPR. So I spin the dial to krock ...or get the led out if k rock is playing something lame like rise against.

Every other station on earth buries their public affairs under Sunday morning, this strategy fresh is executing is mishegos.
 
I believe he talking about WWFS-HD2 which airs LAST-FM to two or three listeners with IBOC crystal sets.
 
Ohhhh....

"If a tree falls on an HD-2 and nobody has a radio, does it make a sound?"
 
What happened to LAST FM BTW? I haven't heard it on the HD2 in about a week. I hope it's not gone for good - i'm one of the three people with an HD-radio that listens to it all the time.

AG
 
Disagree, Don. The issue is not one of polarization. None of the geeks here or on other forums are or were lined up and blocking the way with bayonets.

And there is nothing to 'love' here. Or hate. In an era when jobs are being lost on the parent signals to FM, this HD craze was little more than another speculative corporate blunder.

The resulting silence has not been a result of apathy by radio geeks. It is management and ownership who miscalculated -- again. These are the people ; these sales- and quarterly- oriented people ; these non radio geeks, who envisioned dollar signs by owning three radio stations. 'Great Heavens! We don't even have to pay any staffers and we can have two more radio stations!'

These are the people who came up short. Way short.

If you want to go door-to-door with an HD radio instead of a vacuum cleaner or a crate of encylcopedias, that is your business. Maybe you are the Mel Karmazin of HD radio sales. Who knows? God bless you. Go get 'em.
Many of us, though, have seen this before. And roughly that same amount of people do not accept your attempt at a rebuke. Your indictment is pointed at the wrong people.

If I may speak on behalf of some of those geeks, and borrow from Pogo : We have met the enemy, and he ain't us.
 
We hate HD because of the IBUZ and the proprietary technology. In 2003 we predicted it would fail, the morons at iBiquity predicted that most radios sold in 2012 would have HD.
 
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