"Bob Campbell" wrote in news:TZqdnY878-
:

Callers can come from anywhere in the
world.


But they don't. They are usually up and down the West Coast, some in
Nevada, and all listening over the air, because they say they are.

This conversation is fruitless. Eduardo is as firmly set in his opinion as
we are, and there's nothing wrong with that. However, the writing is on the
wall for IBOC, and he knows it if he won't admit it. They are being turned
off all over the country, as the stations are realizing they were sold a
pig in a poke, and nobody is listening. It would only attract the techie
group anyway, and they will rush to streaming radio in their cars as soon
as it's available. The avarage person who turns on their car radio for
traffic, or their kitchen radio for news and sports knows they don't need
HD to hear it. That was the flaw in the system from the very beginning. The
crowd they might have attracted don't listen to radio at all.

On Jan 4, 11:08�pm, elaich wrote:
"Bob Campbell" wrote in news:TZqdnY878-
:

Callers can come from anywhere in the
world.

But they don't. They are usually up and down the West Coast, some in
Nevada, and all listening over the air, because they say they are.

This conversation is fruitless. Eduardo is as firmly set in his opinion as
we are, and there's nothing wrong with that. However, the writing is on the
wall for IBOC, and he knows it if he won't admit it. They are being turned
off all over the country, as the stations are realizing they were sold a
pig in a poke, and nobody is listening. It would only attract the techie
group anyway, and they will rush to streaming radio in their cars as soon
as it's available. The avarage person who turns on their car radio for
traffic, or their kitchen radio for news and sports knows they don't need
HD to hear it. That was the flaw in the system from the very beginning. The
crowd they might have attracted don't listen to radio at all.

Go to http://www.alexa.com/ and run the graphs for max time period and
for pageviews for hdradio.com and msndirect.com - the graphs are flat.
Clear Channel made a deal with MSNDirect for traffic services, but no
one is interested.

"elaich" wrote in message ...
"Bob Campbell" wrote in news:TZqdnY878-
:

Callers can come from anywhere in the
world.


But they don't. They are usually up and down the West Coast, some in
Nevada, and all listening over the air, because they say they are.

This conversation is fruitless. Eduardo is as firmly set in his opinion as
we are, and there's nothing wrong with that. However, the writing is on
the
wall for IBOC, and he knows it if he won't admit it.

The writing is on the wall for AM radio, and *you* know even if you won't
admit it. AM radio is dying, everything is moving to FM. With AM dying,
there is no need for HD.

With all of the AM talk moving to FM, again there is no need for HD, as
standard FM is more than adequate for talk.

This whole HD radio effort is about 10 years too late. Not enough people
listen to the radio, for enough hours each day/week/month/whatever, to make
HD worthwhile. The young people who are into music/buying music listen to
MP3 players, not FM radio.

Simply put, not enough people care about radio any longer. It is perceived
as (and IS) ancient technology. In today's digital world, radio is simply
irrelevant to the upcoming generations, regardless of what old farts like me
think about it.

Kids today have shirt pocket MP3 players, not shirt pocket radios.

Bob Campbell wrote:


Kids today have shirt pocket MP3 players, not shirt pocket radios.



"Kids" are the brain-dead simpletons 'dwardo's "ratings" are designed to
quantify. Making the world "kids-centric" is not a good idea.