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Washington Times Says HD is Going Unheard
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paul vincent zecchino
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Par for the course. HD a free service? Aren't analog AM and FM? HD delivers variety? Most streams are vacant, some feature the same record skipping over and over and over....
But HD isn't free, is it? Costs are steep. Cheerleaders laugh and tell us to toss our radios in the trash along with VCRs, etc. But that's not quite the same thing, is it?
They plead ignorance about metaphors, yet mix them in manipulative manner, don't they?
They scoff at us for objecting to radios 'taken' by BigKorpseorate fiat? Tell them to identify a prized posession. Demand they toss that in the trash. Lsten for the squealing.
Listeners increasingly state, 'Everything about HD is a lie."
Speaking of listeners, the WashTimes article omitted any mention of them. Notice that? Do they matter? Or is BigRadio now simply one BigKorpseKaster bellowing at another?
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
22 March, 2007
But HD isn't free, is it? Costs are steep. Cheerleaders laugh and tell us to toss our radios in the trash along with VCRs, etc. But that's not quite the same thing, is it?
They plead ignorance about metaphors, yet mix them in manipulative manner, don't they?
They scoff at us for objecting to radios 'taken' by BigKorpseorate fiat? Tell them to identify a prized posession. Demand they toss that in the trash. Lsten for the squealing.
Listeners increasingly state, 'Everything about HD is a lie."
Speaking of listeners, the WashTimes article omitted any mention of them. Notice that? Do they matter? Or is BigRadio now simply one BigKorpseKaster bellowing at another?
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
22 March, 2007
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paul vincent zecchino
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HD channels number in the hundreds? Can they never tell the truth? Yes, channels number in the hundreds and HDBund is spending two hundred million dollars to promote this gobbler. But the bills have 'Parker Brothers' printed on them. And why does a supposedly fine product require this level of advertising, let alone endless bellicose denials of interference?
HD could have a thousand channels. So what? If all they feature is silence or records skipping, what good is it? Wasn't the original Victim argument for HD that BigKorpse couldn't make money from one channel? So how would more channels solve that? Fix what you have.
Have they tried compelling programs? They won't. Jamming's the thing, y'see. First jam, then loot. Doubt me? Please do. You'll see.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
22 March, 2007
HD could have a thousand channels. So what? If all they feature is silence or records skipping, what good is it? Wasn't the original Victim argument for HD that BigKorpse couldn't make money from one channel? So how would more channels solve that? Fix what you have.
Have they tried compelling programs? They won't. Jamming's the thing, y'see. First jam, then loot. Doubt me? Please do. You'll see.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
22 March, 2007
paul vincent zecchino said:
There are, right now, over 600 HD-2 additional programming channels. Many offer things not available on main channels.
Oldies is avaiilable in NY on an HD2 channel, as is Country. Neither is on a main channel or an AM. Even classic salsa is on one channel!
In Texas, five markets that have no Tejano station now have Tejano music, a real morning show and more on HD2 channels.
Chicago, which only had 4 FM Spanish stations, has two HD2 channels, each with unavailable formats like salsa and pop.
There are just a couple of examples of what is being developed on the additional channels. And that's the real truth.
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Mike Walker
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You're right. HD channels don't number in the hundreds. They number IN THE THOUSANDS. About 1500 now, 2000 by the end of the summer. And by then perhaps a thousand will multicast...which will mean thousands MORE choices.
Costs "steep"? I bought my HD radio for 99 dollars, plus a 30 dollar antenna. That was in November. Funny, I don't seem to have gotten any other bills since then.
As for the Washington Times, it's the Fox ('m sorry "Faux") News of the print world. Name a story of importance either of them have EVER broken. Oh right...Fox has reported REPEATEDLY that we've "found the weapons of mass destruction!" Even Bush and Cheney aren't foolish enough to make that claim! I'll take my news from a NEWS source.
But had they done the story in 1923, about the point we're at now with HD radio, they could have accurately reported "radio going unheard". Before there are many (radios) there are few. But if there weren't more on the market, more stations every day (not just every week...on average multiple stations start HD EVERY DAY) and in people's homes, would the anti-HD parrots be quite so shrill?
If only I could get this kind of "failure" with my stock portfolio!
Costs "steep"? I bought my HD radio for 99 dollars, plus a 30 dollar antenna. That was in November. Funny, I don't seem to have gotten any other bills since then.
As for the Washington Times, it's the Fox ('m sorry "Faux") News of the print world. Name a story of importance either of them have EVER broken. Oh right...Fox has reported REPEATEDLY that we've "found the weapons of mass destruction!" Even Bush and Cheney aren't foolish enough to make that claim! I'll take my news from a NEWS source.
But had they done the story in 1923, about the point we're at now with HD radio, they could have accurately reported "radio going unheard". Before there are many (radios) there are few. But if there weren't more on the market, more stations every day (not just every week...on average multiple stations start HD EVERY DAY) and in people's homes, would the anti-HD parrots be quite so shrill?
If only I could get this kind of "failure" with my stock portfolio!Mike, I would rather be shrill then shill parrot style.
Yes, HD AM makes my radios sound just like it is 1923 again.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/business/20070320-092805-8203r.htm
Time will tell, but I doubt it.
Didn't the Alliance cartel say that last year?
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paul vincent zecchino
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Thousands of channels? You're right. They're on at present. They're called analog stations. Neither broadcasters nor listeners need pay iNiquity a farthing to enjoy them. Might that be the real reason that old radio afficianados who work for HD stooge-radio piously condemn all who take issue with this failed DOA scam?
Have you ever seen such manipulative nonsense used to promote a legitimate product?
Many in the industry listened to these streams, or at least, they tried. What few are on, as has well been reported, feature cheaply produced unimaginative network dumps. Many in and out of the industry describe the sound as that of a 'lousy webcast'.
Way to go, iNiquity!
Proof, you can always tell a Harvard man, but you just can't tell him much.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
22 March, 2007
Have you ever seen such manipulative nonsense used to promote a legitimate product?
Many in the industry listened to these streams, or at least, they tried. What few are on, as has well been reported, feature cheaply produced unimaginative network dumps. Many in and out of the industry describe the sound as that of a 'lousy webcast'.
Way to go, iNiquity!
Proof, you can always tell a Harvard man, but you just can't tell him much.
Dr. Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
22 March, 2007
DavidEduardo said:
Come on David... How many Hispanics are scramming into Best Buy or Circuit City or Radio Shack to buy that HD radio to listen to music they can NOW get on regular FM or AM without spending a dime?
Get real... the extra channels on the mean NOTHING to the average listener since the average on air show is just barely listenable now...
In fact the Radio-Info Chief Ediitor is stressing that Country music stations EMBRACE the Hispanic listeners to prevent the sinking stations with bearely enough listeners to stay alive... Read it for yourself... and yet these listeners are out there buying the $300.00 HD radios to save those stations?
Some people have been in radio too long to believe HD is the saviuor of radio.
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Mike Walker
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"Without spending a dime"? Didn't they pay for their analog radios, or are you charging that Hispanics steal those? What else could the implication be? The better part of a thousand radio stations, including several in my (remote, rural) area multicast...meaning they offer programming FREE OF CHARGE TO HD RADIO OWNERS that you CAN'T GET ON ANALOG RADIOS! DUH!
Come on, to listen to a radio signal, you have to buy (receive as a gift/steal) a radio that receives the particular signal you're after. To listen to analog radio, you have to buy one. They ain't givin' them away!
Are there as many digital radios in people's posession as analog? Well no. They haven't been available for 90 years like analog radios! But in the UK, where they've had digital radios available for a decade (as compared to about 9 months in the US) digital radios outsell analog by a considerable margin. They will here as well. Check back in 2016 for a FAIR comparison. Most Americans still don't have HDTV, and it's been available since what (in your market)...'99? 2000?
Come on, to listen to a radio signal, you have to buy (receive as a gift/steal) a radio that receives the particular signal you're after. To listen to analog radio, you have to buy one. They ain't givin' them away!
Are there as many digital radios in people's posession as analog? Well no. They haven't been available for 90 years like analog radios! But in the UK, where they've had digital radios available for a decade (as compared to about 9 months in the US) digital radios outsell analog by a considerable margin. They will here as well. Check back in 2016 for a FAIR comparison. Most Americans still don't have HDTV, and it's been available since what (in your market)...'99? 2000?
Mike Walker said:
What a moronic statement! That's right in order for Hispanics to listen to radio it must be from a stolen radio.... YEAH, I said that in my previous post.... twisting the words to suit your preferrences....
I suppose as the immigration cops send the so called illegals back to Mexico let's take the 'stolen analog radios' away from them!
Nice take Mike!
Radiopilot
radiopilot said:
In our most developed project, we think the numbers are in the tens of thousands already. This is the Tejano HD network in Houston, McAllen, El Paso, Austin and Dallas. This is based out of our only Tejano staiton, KXTN in San Antonio. The networked morning show gets as many calls form out of SA as from the market, and the staiton is always top 5 in mornings 25-54 in SA... so that means lots of listeners. Retailers have reported selling out of the receivers because of this programming and the demand continues strong.
Because of this experience, we are developing specialized formats for other unserved groups for other markets. Such HD2 formats drive receiver sales enormously... even at the high cost today.
Country is one of the most robust formats in the US. All that has been discussed is whether Hispanics can be invited to that particular party to further increase country shares. This is a format trying to adjust to changing demographic composition of many American markets... the fact is that, unless the Hispanic is third or fourth generation, they will have no interest in country. But the fact that this group of stations cares indicates interest in growth, not "sinking" numbers. Country is hardly sinking.
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