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Old September 25th 09, 12:08 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Bob Struble admits HD Radio sales are a flop - LOL!

"Struble: Radio Is the Last Analog Medium Standing"

"HD Radio portables — No one's buying a lot of transistor radios
anymore. The headphone radios that people used to run around the park
with are all gone, and if radio wants to continue to be a reach
medium, they've got to be in the devices people carry, which
increasingly are cell phones, MP3 players, personal navigation
devices... Insignia HD — I think this will be a nice little interim
step for jogging or working out. It proves the viability [of the
technology] and hopefully we'll get sales; but no, this is not going
to sell in the hundreds of thousands... Radio alone — the sad reality
of where it is — as a standalone device, it just doesn't exist anymore
as a category. Nobody goes into Best Buy and says 'Where's the radio
department?'"

http://www.rwonline.com/article/87370

Yea, buddy - and, you have to tell us that no one buys radios anymore
- LOL!