RadioBanter - IS HD THE ANSWER TO RADIO'S YOUTH EROSION PROBLEM

Telamon - You Call this Nothing ? ! ? ~ RHF

=PS= Telamon - Thank You for Giving Me this Opportunity
to Repost-My-Message yet once again and Put-It-Out-There
for another Message Posting Cycle :
For More Readers to See-It and Read-It. - tyvm ~ RHF

Like Real Estate - Radio is : content, Content. CONTENT !

Is HD-Radio "The Answer" to AM/FM Radio's Youth Erosion Problem ?
- "NO" The Answer is Inter-Active Web-based Content Driven Radio
Programming.

+ Plus here is and Up-Dated-Re-Write- 15 March 2008 {New Content}

Radio Stations Need To Understand that at one time
Radio-Listeners were simply Radio-Listeners -because-
They had no other 'choice' : Today There Are NO Radio
Listeners : There Are "Audio Consumers" and Radio Stations
must Fight for 'their' Share of Today's Audio Consumers :
Who have Many Choices in the Audio Content that they
can Choose from and Listen to Every Hour of Every Day.

IMHO - Arbitrons Days Are Numbered - When Every Radio Station
begins to have it's Own "People Meter" WebSite* taking the On-Line
Pulse of It's Daily Radio Listeners 24 / 7 & 365 !
* When a Radio Station can get 10%~15% of it's Radio Listeners
to Log-On Once-a-Week and Participate on It's Website : That Radio
Station will then be able to Demographically Identify a Sub-set of
those On-Line Participants as a Valid Sample {Cross-Section} of
It's Radio Listeners and Program the Radio Station Accordingly.
* Plus the Website can Pay-for-Itself or become a Profit-Center
for the Radio Stations by offering Targeted Advertisements to
the Website Users.
* The Inter-Active WebSite for Radio Listeners -is- A Win+Win
Feature of Any AM/FM Radio Station : Who Want's to Have a
Future in Radio Broadcasting.
* The Mode of Broadcasting be it Analog or Digital -is- a Non-Issue
for "Free" Over-the-Air AM/FM Radio Broadcasting.
* Radio-Content-is-King and The Future is Inter-Active Content
Driving Radio Station Programming to Meet the Needs of Audio
Consumers !

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Hello Everyone,

For those with an Open-Mind about IBOC and HD-Radio :
Read these Messages Post by Me {RHF} to get
The-Other-Side-of-the-Story about the HD-Radio.

WHY ? - Balance-out the Wishful Thinking that IBOC will
simply Go-a-Way : With some Thoughts on Inspite of all
of IBOC's current problems there is Corporate Will and
Money to Make IBOC "The Standard" with the Help of the
F¢¢ and the U$ ¢ongre$$.

First Read - The Future of Free Over-the-Air AM/FM Radio
is Web-Based Inter-Active Participation by the Radio Listeners.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...20fde193bb394b
The Younger Generations of Audio Consumers are in-fact
Inter-Active Listeners and the Internet is there Tuning Knob.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...6eb2962abeafc3

* AM/FM Radio - Be It Analog -or- Be It Digital :
It Ain't About Technology It's About Content [.]
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...056db1a2513844

* IBOC & WiFi : The "All Mode" AM/FM/DS/WF Radio
- Is It the Next Step in the Evolution of the Radio {Sound Box} ?
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...107d1e0f1536c0

* IBOC : Where Are My AM/FM Radio Listeners Going ?
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...f99b232dd3d098

* A Revolution in Audio Content Delivery May Be in
the Making . . . The All Digital Mode AM/FM+DS Radio
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...5918c62cb6a3b7

* Point-of-Fact : Consumers Are Buying "HD" Radios !
- How Is This Bad News For "HD" Radio ?
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...c41a2a0421a40c
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...63a3d99c9b3e59
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...6437fe13c9f3ea

* IBOC : Part 2 - The Present Day Media Corporations
that Focus Solely on Radio Broadcasting may be . . .
Dinosaurs in the Making
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...a3b1e0cc441354

* "HD" Radios ! - The Un-Qualified Comments by a
Simple Consumer of "Free" Over-the-Air AM & FM Radio
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...85aed02732ce3e

* IBOC : A Dynamic Change in the American Listening Audience :
The New-Generation of Audio Consumers versus Older Radio Listeners
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...175d57589ef4f7

* IBOC : Wishing That IBOC Will Fail : Ain't Going to Make IBOC Fail
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...52b979e2103313