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Don Juan said:
jeffryan said:
BoredModerator said:
Holland, I would love to spend my 'community' time looking at photos with my family on X-Box, but the reality is most of us spend more time in the car going to and fro. Radio may be a dinosaur but it's the easiest form of media we have. It comes with us in the car and we press a button.

The reality is actually that WiFi will soon be prolific in cars. This will put streaming audio platforms on the same plane as terrestrial radio.

While I agree that Wi-Fi radio is coming....it not coming "soon".

It will be a long time before they can cast a reliable enough wi-fi signal for people to use in their cars while driving around.


You can get an Air card for your laptop and surf without interuption on the road via your wireless company. It just uses signals from cell phone towers. If you can get a cell phone signal you'll have internet. I think ultimately radios will have a slot for an aircard or just have it built in. Yeah it's years away, but it's inevitable that it's going to happen. This is all kind of new to me, so please forgive me if I've stated the obvious. I just purchased a new laptop and I've been researching various ways to get internet during extended power outages.
 
It's not as far off as you think.

Look up a company called "Clear". Mobile 4G technology now available for as little as $30 a month.
 
Skynet74 said:
You can get an Air card for your laptop and surf without interuption on the road via your wireless company. It just uses signals from cell phone towers. If you can get a cell phone signal you'll have internet. Yeah it's years away..

Well, the key is not the cost...as much as the reliability issue. Think about how easy it is to pick up WPRO or WWBB. It would have tio be as easy to get a signal like that. (And it has to be better quality than "cell phone coverage".)

While Cell Coverage is pretty good in metro areas and on most major highways....in some of the boonies of Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Western Mass it is not.

And getting people to adopt it might be a long road too. We've seen that most people are apathetic about radio in general. AM, FM, Satelite, whatever...

Most people don't think about radio. And it has to be seamless for most people to adopt.
 
The genie is out of the bottle, baybeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Don Juan said:
the key is not the cost...as much as the reliability issue. Think about how easy it is to pick up WPRO or WWBB. It would have tio be as easy to get a signal like that.

Today, I punched-up a New Jersey station I work with on my iPhone, slipped it in my shirt pocket, and listened as I walked around, here in Rhode Island.

It's "the new transistor radio."
 
Re: The genie is out of the bottle, baybeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Holland Cooke said:
Don Juan said:
the key is not the cost...as much as the reliability issue. Think about how easy it is to pick up WPRO or WWBB. It would have tio be as easy to get a signal like that.

Today, I punched-up a New Jersey station I work with on my iPhone, slipped it in my shirt pocket, and listened as I walked around, here in Rhode Island.

It's "the new transistor radio."

Yep the technology is already here I guess. Just like with anything else new, it will just take a few years for it to become mainstream. The perfect radio would be capable of receiving all of the following AM/FM/HD/SIRIUS XM/INTERNET WIFI. One day that radio will exist..... I Hope.
 
Re: The genie is out of the bottle, baybeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Skynet74 said:
The perfect radio would be capable of receiving all of the following AM/FM/HD/SIRIUS XM/INTERNET WIFI. One day that radio will exist..... I Hope.

Apps and accessories already enable iPhone to do all-of-the-above.

And listeners are already migrating.
If you haven't already seen it yet, read the new Nielsen research (just posted @ www.HollandCooke.com).

Nerd-that-I-am, I'm poring over all 38 pages.
But the graphs on the last 4 pages tell the story.

Only half of all listening now is to AM/FM.
 
Re: The genie is out of the bottle, baybeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Holland Cooke said:
Nerd-that-I-am, I'm poring over all 38 pages.

Don't worry about being a Nerd. I became a nerd the other night when I almost passed out from excitement at the discovery that there is a 128 Gigabyte USB flash drive keychain. That will fit my collection of hundreds of tapes and thousands of photographs onto a little stick that I can carry with me. This is the coolest freaking thing I've found all year. Now I can put all my bad radio shows in my pocket. ;D

http://www.mangochico.com/kingstons-largest-usb-flash-drive-128gb/
 
Re: The genie is out of the bottle, baybeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

But naturally the stories in the trades are portraying half of listening to AM/FM as a good thing. Is the glass half full or half empty?
 
RE "Is the glass half full or half empty?"

Half-FULL!

Or, as a station owner I work for in Texas drawled today, "Ah'm surprised it's THAT hah!"

Why this is good news: Everything-else COMBINED = radio.
Radio has gazillions of installed receivers, used habitually by the two generations who control most of the USA's wealth.

That said, tick tock.

Radio's challenge is to use-it-or-lose-it with this precious incumbency.
We've got a following.
We've got content...so much that we can't fit it all on a transmitter.
(Just ask anyone trying to get a weekend show cleared.)
We've got brand.
We've got relationships with advertisers.
We're in JUST-the-right position to jump-in-front-of-this-parade.
ANYONE can create great web content.
But WE can tell our cume that it's there. ;)
 
I don't have a wi-fi radio yet. Possibly this time next year the earliest. I was an XM subscriber for nearly 5 years until the merger with Sirius and their programming went downhill, as well as the recent rate increase earlier this year.

Music wise, I get all the music I listen to thru Live 365 or AOL radio. News/Talk wise goes across the internet spectrum nationwide. I can be sitting in front of my computer up here in the hinterlands of Northwestern Wisconsin and listen to Helen Glover in the morning (usually the last hour since I'm getting my son off to school prior to that), or later in the morning Steve Gill in Nashville, Michael Graham in Boston, Inga Barks in Bakersfield, CA, or Shari Elliker in Baltimore. Lunchtime could be John Carlson and Ken Schram in Seattle or who is currently filling in for the recently deceased Fred Honsberger in Pittsburgh. Early afternoon could be Austin Rhodes in Augusta,GA, Bill LuMaye in Raleigh,NC, Bob McLain in Greenville, SC, Mark Belling in Milwaukee, Vicki McKenna in Madison, or Jeff Ward in Austin, TX. Early PM could be Matt Allen, Michael Berry in Houston, JD Hayworth in Phoenix, or Joe Pagliarulo in San Antonio. I also do log onto the nationally syndicateds Laura Ingraham, Mike Gallagher, Fred Thompson, Jason Lewis, and Roger Hedgecock.


So the possibilities of being able to listen to more than 10,000 stations online whether in the car or at home is absoutely staggering. The technology is here. The bugs just need to be worked out on such things as nationwide exurban and rural coverage. I say within 5 years it will be, maybe even less time than that.
 
Aren't wifi radios wonderful? I love mine at home. Can't friggin' WAIT to get it in the car. Late at night I like listening to Phil Hendrie out of WWTN in Nashville. Also I like how it hooks up to my Pandora account.

Out of curiousity, where in Northwestern Wisconsin are you? Are you near Siren?
 
jeffryan said:
Aren't wifi radios wonderful? I love mine at home. Can't friggin' WAIT to get it in the car. Late at night I like listening to Phil Hendrie out of WWTN in Nashville. Also I like how it hooks up to my Pandora account.

Out of curiousity, where in Northwestern Wisconsin are you? Are you near Siren?
I'm about 40 miles SE of Siren.
 
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