Public not buying it? Just throw (away) more money at the problem.

[SUPERCASTER]

After all, they can always layoff more employees, to make up the losses.
What do you think?
Here is the link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/518315.html

 

[Tom Wells]

This sort of "journalism" makes my blood boil. It is not a news release, it it not news.
It is blatant disinformation masquerading as news. Any journalist that does not present the whole issue is lazy or a prostitute.
I notice there are no quotes from detractors or others concerned about the harm this authorized interference creates.
This is like reading a story about crack, written by the crack cocaine cartel.

It is time for myself or someone else to start the bumpersticker campaign.
Anybody know where to order custom bumperstickers?

And I just paid myself 500 million dollars in advertising fees to write this. I moved the money from my left pocket to my right pocket.
Now we can say the detractors have a bigger budget than ibiquity. What, you don't beleive I paid myself in real money?
I don't beleive their money is real money, either. But just the same, we're spending big money to keep you informed.
You're welcome, I'm sure.

 

[amfmsw]

The article quotes that by 2011, 20% of all radios will be HD. Only 20% in four years after being available for this long already? It's doomed, except for NPR techies.

And what about AM? It doesn't mention anything about AM...you know, the "Standard Broadcast" band.

 

[calstymes]

amfmsw spaketh:

The article quotes that by 2011, 20% of all radios will be HD.

Isn't that just one year before the end-times? Maybe HD will get popular in the end times and 2012 will be the year of the "real" HD radio "rollout", just before the world comes to an end.

 

[700WLW]

After all, they can always layoff more employees, to make up the losses.
What do you think?
Here is the link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/518315.html

This is another pathetic article - 20% of radios sold will be HD by 2011 (about 14 million). So, there is going to be a jump of a few tens-of-thousands in 2006, to 14 million by 2011, in just 5 years. I still wonder, where the $200 million went for advertising this year - it has had zero impact; maybe, Robert Struble just bought another mansion in Columbia, Md. It is clear, that HD Radio has only attracted the attention of some, "radio geeks".

 

[passtheword]

Isn't that just one year before the end-times? Maybe HD will get popular in the end times and 2012 will be the year of the "real" HD radio "rollout", just before the world comes to an end.

Who's to say the end-times are coming in 2012? Might come sooner than you think...

Either way, HD radio is doomed.


________________________
Radio stations come and go.
Does anything last forever?
www.PassTheWord.net

 

[dbdigital]

After all, they can always layoff more employees, to make up the losses.
What do you think?
Here is the link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/518315.html

It's just a puff piece cobbled together from news releases and superficial research. I used to work for a magazine and I've seen editors put junk like this together and pass it off as editorial content.

Made me smile and wistfully nostalgic, though.

db

 

[vsa]

Radio Magazine chimes in with the latest on HD Radio with - A View from the Bleachers.

"Although this publication receives numerous press releases and posts from industry mailing lists, we seldom get any direct insight into what the general public thinks about the HD Radio roll-out. And so it was with great interest that I reviewed online forum responses to a Dec. 1 Business Week online story regarding the HD Digital Radio Alliance's latest promotional blitz. As of Radio's publication deadline, Business Week's reader forum had accumulated 19 responses to the HD Radio article. But one didn't have to read them all to get a sense that the predominant tone was skeptical at best."

Read the article here:
http://beradio.com/digital_radio_update/digital_radio_update_120606/#view

You gotta believe that folks are reading the comments contained at this site too.

 

[MotoMuzak]

Somewhat unrelated but still related in some ways:

I am sort of curious as to how well Digital Radio Mondiale would fare in the US? Even in terms of sound quality, listenership/consumer acceptance, gratification............

That's assuming IF, and only IF the FCC isn't stupid enough to make the mistake of legislating Ibiquity's system as the new standard, the way they seem to have done with HDTV.........

 

[700WLW]

Somewhat unrelated but still related in some ways:

I am sort of curious as to how well Digital Radio Mondiale would fare in the US? Even in terms of sound quality, listenership/consumer acceptance, gratification............

That's assuming IF, and only IF the FCC isn't stupid enough to make the mistake of legislating Ibiquity's system as the new standard, the way they seem to have done with HDTV.........

I suspect, the same as Eureka has in Canada - a failure. The UK is talking about shutting off analog AM/FM, even though, only a small percentage of receivers sold are digital. I think, it is simply a lack of public interest in the broadcast bands, with all these other technologies emerging.

"Netherlands Turns Off Analog TV; World Doesn't End"

http://techdirt.com/articles/20061211/161257.shtml

"UK May Dump Analog Broadcasting"

http://www.dailywireless.org/2006/11/27/uk-may-dump-analog-broadcasting/