"Radio Ronn" lq6dpvk02-at-sneakemail.com wrote in message
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FM finally found it's audience...

And look where it is now.

Lucky no one declared it a "failure" after only a couple of years!


OK, let's imagine HD radio never develops any significant unique
content.

It already has developed lots of unique content. People just don't know
about it yet.

And as long as people don't know about it, it's hardly significant.


It becomes just a dismal collection of jukeboxes, scam infomertials, and
evangelists.

Sattelite radio is full of "jukebox channels". And many of the largest
stations WABC/WLS/KFI also air some infomercials.

Yeah, that makes a few bucks for the broadcasters and they don't have
actually produce a program. We'll be hearing alot more of that stuff.


As far as televangelists....do you want to start regulating content...or
do
we allow for free speech?

Broadcasters already regulate content, but it has nothing to do with
evangelists or televangelists. The FCC fines broadcasters who don't follow
guidelines.

Broadcasters are obliged to oversee everything they broadcast. While it
might make sense from a creative standpoint to have original cutting-edge
content on all the new HD channels, the necessary oversight is alot cheaper
if they just broadcast the same old low rent stuff.



If HD radio never rises above junk radio, isn't it a failure?

There's a lot of "junk radio" out there now that makes money and gets
listeners. Is that a failure?



Failure depends on what you expect. Junk radio pays a few bills. And it
seems that letting someone shill colloidal silver is less risky than taking
a chance on someone blurting out the F-word.

If we expect the sort of radio which will attract a huge mass market and the
sort of radio which will change out culture, HD radio has failed and will
continue to fail.

Frank Dresser