On Feb 18, 5:22*pm, RHF wrote:
IBOC : The Present Day Media Corporations that Focus Solely
on Radio Broadcasting may be Dinosaurs in the Makinghttp://groups.google.com/group/hd-radio/msg/c5e1cab41d458e2e

NOTE TO ALL - From Now On When I Post or Reply to a Post
concerning the IBOC Radio Broadcast {Scheme} developed by
the iBiquity Digital Corporation and what is called "HD" Radio :
I will endeavor to place : "IBOC" at the Start of the Subject Line.
=So If= You do not want to Read Posts and Replies about IBOC
"HD" Radio by Me you can easily Filter then out, or simply use
common sense and Ignore them.

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On Feb 18, 6:27 am, Steve wrote:
Point-of-Fact : Consumers Are Buying "HD" Radios !
- How Is This Bad News For "HD" Radio ?http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...dabdf90232868d

- S N I P -

- I understand this, but you must understand that the current
- problems facing broadcasters, which are in no way addressed
- by HD radio, are also deeply entrenched.

Steve - That is True.

- An HD bandaid isn't going to solve the industry's problems.

Steve - That is Equally True.

- And the public's acceptance of HD radio will be a function
- of its acceptance of other forms of radio, which have sound
- business models and superior programming.

I do not know of any New Media Business Models that
actually produce the Income Streams that present day
AM & FM Radio do - Enlighten Me Please !

I didn't think we were talking about today. I thought we were talking
about the future, when HD radio will be pitted against alternatives
that are actually desired by the listening public.



- The idea of a "second audio stream" is absolutely quaint
- at this stage. Surely no one is resting their hopes on this.

Takes and Existing Franchise (Radio Station) and creates
a new Income Stream with greatly reduced Capital Cost :
Potentially Expands the Income and Inceases Profits.

Other media offer thousands of audio streams.


- No, but the fact that it doesn't address problems that
- are genuinely pressing for the industry suggests that
- it will either fail or few people will notice one way or the
- other.

Actually -imho- It is hard for IBOC "HD" Radio not to succeed
as part of the declining Media which is AM & FM Radio.

If "succeed" simply means destroying analog AM and despoiling a big
chunk of spectrum, sure. However, if it means surviving and
flourishing as a business, it has no chance and does not even appear
to have been intended for success.


"HD" Radio may simply keep the Patient Alive Longer
-and- At-the-Same-Time allow the present AM & FM Radio
Broadcasts {Media Corporations} to Expand into 'New'
Media themselves.

My guess is that HD radio will be a form of euthanasia. It will
quicken the overall decline.


The present day Media Corporations that Focus Solely
on Radio Broadcasting may be Dinosaurs in the making.
* They now have to begin [ASAP] to View Themselves
as Pan-Media {All Forms of Media} Corporations; and not
simply as Radio Broadcasters {Radio Station Owners}.
* They have the Financial Where-with-All and Expertise
to Transistion and Transformer themselves into what they
need to be : To Be in Business for the next 50~75 Years.

Examples of Dinosaur Business Thinking :
* Railroads did not think of themselves as a Transportation
Business and naturally expand into the Airline Industry.
* Kodak though of itself as a Photo Company and naturally
not expand into the Imaging {Zerox} Industry.
* Silicon Valley was born because AT&T and IBM thought
that their business was their business and they both lost
business and market share as a result of that thinking.
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I would add HD radio to the list.

IBOC : Part 2 - The Present Day Media Corporations
that Focus Solely on Radio Broadcasting may be
Dinosaurs in the Making - But Only Time Will Tell
http://groups.google.com/group/hd-ra...bf7078e60a9220

On Feb 19, 3:21*am, RHF wrote:
IBOC : Part 2 - The Present Day Media Corporations
that Focus Solely on Radio Broadcasting may be
Dinosaurs in the Making - But Only Time Will Tellhttp://groups.google.com/group/hd-radio/msg/06bf7078e60a9220
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yes - it's about iboc 'hd' radio ~ RHF
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The Complete Text All of My Replies to these IBOC
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On Feb 18, 9:16 pm, Steve wrote:http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...79166a5a8d4b03
- - IBOC : The Present Day Media Corporations that Focus Solely
- - on Radio Broadcasting may be Dinosaurs in the Making
- -http://groups.google.com/group/hd-radio/msg/c5e1cab41d458e2e





NOTE TO ALL - From Now On When I Post or Reply to a Post
concerning the IBOC Radio Broadcast {Scheme} developed by
the iBiquity Digital Corporation and what is called "HD" Radio :
I will endeavor to place : "IBOC" at the Start of the Subject Line.
=So If= You do not want to Read Posts and Replies about IBOC
"HD" Radio by Me you can easily Filter then out, or simply use
common sense and Ignore them.

FWIW - Moist of the Longer Posts and Replies can
be found at the "HD Radio" Newsgroup* on Google.
*http://groups.google.com/group/hd-radio/
HD RADIO GROUP =http://tinyurl.com/27kwyt

On Feb 18, 6:27 am, Steve wrote:
Point-of-Fact : Consumers Are Buying "HD" Radios !
- How Is This Bad News For "HD" Radio ?http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...dabdf90232868d

- S N I P -

- I understand this, but you must understand that the current
- problems facing broadcasters, which are in no way addressed
- by HD radio, are also deeply entrenched.

Steve - That is True.

- An HD bandaid isn't going to solve the industry's problems.

Steve - That is Equally True.

- And the public's acceptance of HD radio will be a function
- of its acceptance of other forms of radio, which have sound
- business models and superior programming.

- - I do not know of any New Media Business Models that
- - actually produce the Income Streams that present day
- - AM & FM Radio do - Enlighten Me Please !

- I didn't think we were talking about today. I thought we
- were talking about the future, when HD radio will be pitted
- against alternatives that are actually desired by the
- listening public.

Today is all I have - Who Truly Knows . . .
What The Future May Bring.

We're not talking about what the precise temperature will be in
Sacramento on Aug 3, 2056. It's more akin to whether the earth will
still be revolving around the sun in 2056, or whether helium atoms
will still contain the same number of protons.

- Other media offer thousands of audio streams.

But 'Free' Over-the-Air AM/FM Radio is so easy to acces
and Listen to;and for me it is a technology that I 'feel'
comfortable with. *Maybe a younger Consumer of Audio
will find and use all those thousand of Audio Streams
-but- Not 'i' in the Digital Here-and-Now.

Again, this is true today but in the not-too-distant future the
landscape could look very different. And with HD your access might not
be as easy as you think unless you live a block away from the station.


- - Actually -imho- It is hard for IBOC "HD" Radio not to succeed
- - as part of the declining Media which is AM & FM Radio.

- If "succeed" simply means destroying analog AM and
- despoiling a big chunk of spectrum, sure.

For the Media Corporations who own "The Franchise"
{AM & FM {Radio Stations} and for the AM & FM Radio
Listening Public who simply Listen to their Local Radio
Broadcasting : Your Statement Has No Value.

As compared to what alternative statement?


* The "HD" Radio Stations will have a Sellable Product
that they believe is better than old Analog.

They don't believe that it is better than analog, unless "better" =
"more likely to make them lots of money in a hurry"

* The "HD" Radio Listeners will have an Audio Product
that they believe is better that the old Analog.

There may be a handful of people who believe this, but that's it.

+ To Both Groups Destroying 'old' Analog AM Radio will
be a Good Thing "In The Name of Digital Progress"
- A Big Chuck of Spectrum is something that Your
Basic Radio Listener does not understand :

They'll come to understand it pretty quick when, all of a sudden,
there's nothing to listen to on the radio.

They Know the AM and FM Radio Bands and the
Value that they place on them is the : 2, 3, 4, 5 or
maybe 6 Local Radio Stations that : "They Call Their Own".
# Radio Listening : It's About 'Choice' : It's About "Me"
It's Can Be A Selfish Act -especially- When the Radio
Listener puts on a Pair of Headphones and Isolates
Themselves {IN} Their Own Little World {Audio Cocoon}.

- However, if it means surviving and flourishing as a
- business, it has no chance and does not even appear
- to have been intended for success.

That is clearly not My View of the Future of "Free"
Over-the-Air AM & FM Radio : I Believe [Have Faith]
that "Free" Over-the-Air AM & FM Radio will be around
for many more Years; and that a Significant Number
{Large Percentage} of Audio Consumers in the Future
will 'choose' "Free" Over-the-Air AM & FM Radio as
one of their major {if not their primary} sources of
Audio Entertainment.


I think that over the air radio might have a great future ahead of it,
especially if the threats posed by HD can be squashed.

- - "HD" Radio may simply keep the Patient Alive Longer
- - -and- At-the-Same-Time allow the present AM & FM
- - Radio Broadcasts {Media Corporations} to Expand
- - into 'New' Media themselves.

- My guess is that HD radio will be a form of euthanasia.
- It will quicken the overall decline.

That would not be "My Guess" -but- That is just a 'guess'
for I am only a Simple Consumer of "Free" Over-the-Air
AM & FM Radio.

- - Examples of Dinosaur Business Thinking :
- - * Railroads did not think of themselves as a Transportation
- - Business and naturally expand into the Airline Industry.
- - * Kodak though of itself as a Photo Company and naturally
- - not expand into the Imaging {Zerox} Industry.
- - * Silicon Valley was born because AT&T and IBM thought
- - that their business was their business and they both lost
- - business and market share as a result of that thinking.

- I would add HD radio to the list.

time will tell... Yes Only Time Will Tell ! ~ RHF
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