"The Coming Devaluation of AM and FM Radio"

[PLL]

"The Coming Devaluation of AM and FM Radio"

http://radio.about.com/od/opinionpieces/a/aa082206a.htm

"One of the scenarios I see coming together is the devaluation of AM and FM radio stations as technologies like WiMax take hold. WiMax will help to migrate Internet Radio from desktops to autos and other portable devices. [EDIT]

[EDIT-paragraph truncated because unauthorized use is an infringement of the original's copyright protection. Thanks to the poster for including the URL so that interested readers can follow the rest of the story]

 

[I.B. Iquity]

BUT, you are talking delivery meathods versus product. Again I point to cable television as a guide. Today we have many more programing options yet, the big three networks dwarf their competition. Yes there will be a few people who will want to hear west Australian tribal music but the vast majority will still want their local broadcasts from professional outlets, whether they receive it over traditional AM & FM bcb's or via wireless. Again, at this time I don't know of any internet broadcaster capable of supporting millions of simultanious streams.

 

[zumahans]

---->The big three networks dwarf their competition.

The big three audience has gone from 80 to less than 40 percent.

----->the vast majority will still want their local broadcasts from professional outlets,

which they are not getting now, from voicetracked, satellite delivered, and syndicated programs ....

------> whether they receive it over traditional AM & FM bcb's or via wireless. Again, at this time I don't know of any internet broadcaster capable of supporting millions of simultanious streams.

It's coming, and traditional AM and FM stations will probably be a part of the mass market.

You really need to read "The Long Tail" and see how the death of the mass market is here.

 

[SUPERCASTER]

---->The big three networks dwarf their competition.

The big three audience has gone from 80 to less than 40 percent.

----->the vast majority will still want their local broadcasts from professional outlets,

which they are not getting now, from voicetracked, satellite delivered, and syndicated programs ....

------> whether they receive it over traditional AM & FM bcb's or via wireless. Again, at this time I don't know of any internet broadcaster capable of supporting millions of simultanious streams.

It's coming, and traditional AM and FM stations will probably be a part of the mass market.

You really need to read "The Long Tail" and see how the death of the mass market is here.

Millions of simultaneous streams are no problem. The technology is in place and in use.
Radio programing has degenerated into a poor imitation of an iPod, shuffleing a couple of hundred tunes the music industry would like to push.
There are thousands of programs, artists and tunes (many professional) that you can get on the net that you can't get on the air.
WiMax has aready been proven to give service to a radius of 30 miles. That's more coverage area then an HD Radio, and serves up many more stations.
http://radio.about.com/od/opinionpieces/a/aa082206a.htm
The public has already made their choice for preferred sources of entertainment, buying millions of iPods, MP3 players, streaming audio, podcasting, and many new technologies, customizing playlists with new content not available over the broadcast airwaves. HD Radio is just same old, same old, technology and programming, from the same old sources, hiding behind a digital mask. The listeners already have thousands of choices for content, and customization, it is doubtful they will give up this hard won freedom and variety to listen to the same couple of dozen sources repeat the same old tunes, and content.

 

[autopaint-1]

You show your ignorence every time you make a post. You have no idea what you are talking about. You come across like a real small time hick. The kind that major broadcasters squash on a daily basis. Crawl back under your 250 watt rock.

 

[IBOCRocks]

---->The big three networks dwarf their competition.

The big three audience has gone from 80 to less than 40 percent.

----->the vast majority will still want their local broadcasts from professional outlets,

which they are not getting now, from voicetracked, satellite delivered, and syndicated programs ....

------> whether they receive it over traditional AM & FM bcb's or via wireless. Again, at this time I don't know of any internet broadcaster capable of supporting millions of simultanious streams.

It's coming, and traditional AM and FM stations will probably be a part of the mass market.

You really need to read "The Long Tail" and see how the death of the mass market is here.

Millions of simultaneous streams are no problem. The technology is in place and in use.
Radio programing has degenerated into a poor imitation of an iPod, shuffleing a couple of hundred tunes the music industry would like to push.
There are thousands of programs, artists and tunes (many professional) that you can get on the net that you can't get on the air.
WiMax has aready been proven to give service to a radius of 30 miles. That's more coverage area then an HD Radio, and serves up many more stations.
http://radio.about.com/od/opinionpieces/a/aa082206a.htm
The public has already made their choice for preferred sources of entertainment, buying millions of iPods, MP3 players, streaming audio, podcasting, and many new technologies, customizing playlists with new content not available over the broadcast airwaves. HD Radio is just same old, same old, technology and programming, from the same old sources, hiding behind a digital mask. The listeners already have thousands of choices for content, and customization, it is doubtful they will give up this hard won freedom and variety to listen to the same couple of dozen sources repeat the same old tunes, and content.

I bolded the appropriate term - "opinion piece". WiMax will have roughly the same coverage as an HD signal, given terrain (actually an HD signal is more powerful), but only where the carriers have chosen to build. It has taken years for cell carriers, and there are still plenty of places where you can't get a cell signal. THen you have inter-carrier problems, etc., etc,. etc.

It's not nearly as easy as you make it out to be...but then again, you don't have much of an argument unless it was.

 

[calstymes]

autopaint-1 exclaimed:

You show your ignorence every time you make a post. You have no idea what you are talking about. You come across like a real small time hick. The kind that major broadcasters squash on a daily basis. Crawl back under your 250 watt rock.

Good grief!

 

[vsa]

Interesting item in the New York Times.

Here's an exerpt from "Changing Its Tune by Richard Siklos, New York Times, 9.15"

...Clear Channel Communications, the nation’s largest radio operator, is now considering selling some of its 1,200 stations in smaller markets after years of acquiring everything in sight, according to industry analysts.  CBS Corporation did the same thing recently and now says it is looking at further station sales. The Walt Disney Company struck a deal this summer to get out of the radio business altogether, and in May, Susquehanna Broadcasting, the nation’s largest privately held radio group, was sold to another broadcaster.

But rewriting the ownership map is just part of radio’s scramble to find a new groove. In the last year, the industry has moved into overdrive by increasing experimentation with new formats and starting digital initiatives like HD Radio — a nascent format that will allow listeners with special tuners to hear more specialized channels. Radio companies are moving fast into Web businesses that incorporate video and other features that could not have been imagined when commercial radio first appeared nearly nine decades ago.

“It’s not a debate any more that radio is a structurally declining sector,” said Michael Nathanson, media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. “What you’re starting to see are strategic changes in operating models to address the sluggishness of growth.”

What has set radio apart from other challenged media businesses — like video rentals, magazines, television stations and newspapers — was the swiftness of its fall from grace on Wall Street.

A possible reason is that unlike other media businesses, radio appears to have come late to the game of focusing on viable online business models...

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Yup. Everthing's just fine and dandy in radioland.

 

[SUPERCASTER]

---->The big three networks dwarf their competition.

The big three audience has gone from 80 to less than 40 percent.

----->the vast majority will still want their local broadcasts from professional outlets,

which they are not getting now, from voicetracked, satellite delivered, and syndicated programs ....

------> whether they receive it over traditional AM & FM bcb's or via wireless. Again, at this time I don't know of any internet broadcaster capable of supporting millions of simultanious streams.

It's coming, and traditional AM and FM stations will probably be a part of the mass market.

You really need to read "The Long Tail" and see how the death of the mass market is here.

Millions of simultaneous streams are no problem. The technology is in place and in use.
Radio programing has degenerated into a poor imitation of an iPod, shuffleing a couple of hundred tunes the music industry would like to push.
There are thousands of programs, artists and tunes (many professional) that you can get on the net that you can't get on the air.
WiMax has aready been proven to give service to a radius of 30 miles. That's more coverage area then an HD Radio, and serves up many more stations.
http://radio.about.com/od/opinionpieces/a/aa082206a.htm
The public has already made their choice for preferred sources of entertainment, buying millions of iPods, MP3 players, streaming audio, podcasting, and many new technologies, customizing playlists with new content not available over the broadcast airwaves. HD Radio is just same old, same old, technology and programming, from the same old sources, hiding behind a digital mask. The listeners already have thousands of choices for content, and customization, it is doubtful they will give up this hard won freedom and variety to listen to the same couple of dozen sources repeat the same old tunes, and content.

I bolded the appropriate term - "opinion piece". WiMax will have roughly the same coverage as an HD signal, given terrain (actually an HD signal is more powerful), but only where the carriers have chosen to build. It has taken years for cell carriers, and there are still plenty of places where you can't get a cell signal. THen you have inter-carrier problems, etc., etc,. etc.

It's not nearly as easy as you make it out to be...but then again, you don't have much of an argument unless it was.

Thanks for your "OPINION PIECE".

 

[IBOCRocks]

---->The big three networks dwarf their competition.

The big three audience has gone from 80 to less than 40 percent.

----->the vast majority will still want their local broadcasts from professional outlets,

which they are not getting now, from voicetracked, satellite delivered, and syndicated programs ....

------> whether they receive it over traditional AM & FM bcb's or via wireless. Again, at this time I don't know of any internet broadcaster capable of supporting millions of simultanious streams.

It's coming, and traditional AM and FM stations will probably be a part of the mass market.

You really need to read "The Long Tail" and see how the death of the mass market is here.

Millions of simultaneous streams are no problem. The technology is in place and in use.
Radio programing has degenerated into a poor imitation of an iPod, shuffleing a couple of hundred tunes the music industry would like to push.
There are thousands of programs, artists and tunes (many professional) that you can get on the net that you can't get on the air.
WiMax has aready been proven to give service to a radius of 30 miles. That's more coverage area then an HD Radio, and serves up many more stations.
http://radio.about.com/od/opinionpieces/a/aa082206a.htm
The public has already made their choice for preferred sources of entertainment, buying millions of iPods, MP3 players, streaming audio, podcasting, and many new technologies, customizing playlists with new content not available over the broadcast airwaves. HD Radio is just same old, same old, technology and programming, from the same old sources, hiding behind a digital mask. The listeners already have thousands of choices for content, and customization, it is doubtful they will give up this hard won freedom and variety to listen to the same couple of dozen sources repeat the same old tunes, and content.

I bolded the appropriate term - "opinion piece". WiMax will have roughly the same coverage as an HD signal, given terrain (actually an HD signal is more powerful), but only where the carriers have chosen to build. It has taken years for cell carriers, and there are still plenty of places where you can't get a cell signal. THen you have inter-carrier problems, etc., etc,. etc.

It's not nearly as easy as you make it out to be...but then again, you don't have much of an argument unless it was.

Thanks for your "OPINION PIECE".

You'd be the best person ID an opinion piece! 99% of what you print is based in opinion!

Anti-IBOC psycho-terrorists, anyone?

 

[analogAMforever]

IBOCRocks: "Anti-IBOC psycho-terrorists, anyone?"

Why don't you post the full blog, for the fifth time ? According to Cal,
I have been the one egging poor little IBOCRocks on - boo hoo !

 

[IBOCRocks]

IBOCRocks: "Anti-IBOC psycho-terrorists, anyone?"

Why don't you post the full blog, for the fifth time ? According to Cal,
I have been the one egging poor little IBOCRocks on - boo hoo !

I should...it was the biggest lie of all!

 

[analogAMforever]

HD Radio/IBOC/iBiquity is the BIG lie !

 

[IBOCRocks]

HD Radio/IBOC/iBiquity is the BIG lie !

You are the big lie! Let's post some more blogs, eh?

 

[analogAMforever]

Let's obsess some more !

 

[IBOCRocks]

Let's obsess some more !

Right, like register under multiple names after getting banned!!

 

[analogAMforever]

You masqueraded as me, but I was just joking, and you took the bait, just like when you responed to the five blogs !

 

[IBOCRocks]

You masqueraded as me, but I was just joking, and you took the bait, just like when you responed to the five blogs !

Oh right. That's your CIA mind tricking again, huh?

Got caught acting like a fool, now you play the "I meant to do that" card.

Really. We believe you! :

 

[analogAMforever]

Actually, I was just joking again - I really did get banned, then I came back as SaynotoIBOC and SayNoTOSayNoToIBOC !

 

[IBOCRocks]

Actually, I was just joking again - I really did get banned, then I came back as SaynotoIBOC and SayNoTOSayNoToIBOC !

This is the best meltdown yet! Thanks for the laughs!