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Fractured? WBBM's IBOC (QRM) signal renders 790 unlistenable here.

Most likely the 790 signal is not supposed to cover your area with a
listenable (and thus protected) signal. If you are referring to the 790
in Saginaw, it is not protected to Grand Rapids.

That's reality, no matter which way you decide to slice, dice, or spin
it.

Yep, radio is moving on. You aren't.

That's where you're wrong. We are moving on. But not to your QRM
generating three channel wide garbage that it takes a $300 radio to hear
at all (and that's only if you have a large antenna or are within sight of
the towers).

The receivers are getting cheaper and better. I have a newer Boston
Acoustics HD, and it gets all the HD2 channels inside a building that faces
away fromt he transmitters. By the time there is more content, there will be
many more recievers out, and the price point will move down. My first VHS
was $800. My first CD player was $1500. My first DVD player was over $300. A
year or so later, prices were down by more than half. Now you can get a DVD
player for $19 after a rebate.

We're moving on to Ogg-Vorbis, mp3, etc., where we can provide our own
selections of music for hours on end, and without your 15 minutes plus of
commercials per hour, and without paying $13 a month for a sketchy
satellite signal.

Actually, the big players, starting with Clear Channel, have 10 minute
commercial limits.

Radio is dying, it's commiting slow suicide.

Radio is changing, not dying. The cume is within 2% of what it was in the
late 60's. The usage by target demos, 18-54, is only off a few percent from
the levels of the 60's and 70's in Arbitron, and the levels of the 50's in
other surveys. Radio may be used less in the overall entertainment mix, but
it serves 95% of the people well, as it always has.

Sad to see it happening, when I was growing up, radio served it's
audience.. now it only serves itself, and does a **** poor job of even
that.

No evidence of that.

In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:
The receivers are getting cheaper and better. I have a newer Boston
Acoustics HD, and it gets all the HD2 channels inside a building that faces
away fromt he transmitters. By the time there is more content, there will be
many more recievers out, and the price point will move down. My first VHS
was $800. My first CD player was $1500. My first DVD player was over $300. A
year or so later, prices were down by more than half. Now you can get a DVD
player for $19 after a rebate.

And pretty soon, somebody will have a radio with Tivo like features for
$39.95 that records several (or all of the available) stations and has
fast forward buttons so that no one will ever need to listen to a
commercial. And then what happens to your business?

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Mark Zenier wrote:
In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:
The receivers are getting cheaper and better. I have a newer Boston
Acoustics HD, and it gets all the HD2 channels inside a building that faces
away fromt he transmitters. By the time there is more content, there will be
many more recievers out, and the price point will move down. My first VHS
was $800. My first CD player was $1500. My first DVD player was over $300. A
year or so later, prices were down by more than half. Now you can get a DVD
player for $19 after a rebate.

And pretty soon, somebody will have a radio with Tivo like features for
$39.95 that records several (or all of the available) stations and has
fast forward buttons so that no one will ever need to listen to a
commercial. And then what happens to your business?



Actually, the latest versions of TiVo and it's clones now are
starting to display popup advertisements when the user attempts to
fastforward through the commercials.

As a joke a few years ago, the Onion had a story about a court
decision that mandated advertising be viewed by the consumer. Less than
that was 'theft of service' on advertising supported content, and
criminal penalties could range from fines to maximum security
imprisonment.

Within weeks Ted Turner, in a speech before media types, said that
skipping commercials was criminal theft of service, and efforts were
underway to stop it.

With product placement, and CCU's new 'adlets,' just being two
methods, circumvention of listener's wishes to avoid the barrage of
advertising will become an industry unto itself.

SW, getting back onto the topic, is one of the very few media outlets
that isn't advertising supported, with limited exceptions, of course.
Shame that it's also going the way of the 50 gallon clears.







Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

In article ,
D Peter Maus wrote:
Mark Zenier wrote:
And pretty soon, somebody will have a radio with Tivo like features for
$39.95 that records several (or all of the available) stations and has
fast forward buttons so that no one will ever need to listen to a
commercial. And then what happens to your business?

Actually, the latest versions of TiVo and it's clones now are
starting to display popup advertisements when the user attempts to
fastforward through the commercials.

And Tivo, as a company is now (or soon to be) roadkill. First, the
cable set top box manufacturers are duplicating their boxes' functions.

And anybody but the brain dead will think twice or three times to buying
a box that requires a subscription, a phone line, and will snitch on
you about every time you did a rewind to get another look at a good
cleavage shot. And now this. They really needed to figure out who
their customers are.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Mark Zenier wrote:
In article ,
D Peter Maus wrote:
Mark Zenier wrote:
And pretty soon, somebody will have a radio with Tivo like features for
$39.95 that records several (or all of the available) stations and has
fast forward buttons so that no one will ever need to listen to a
commercial. And then what happens to your business?
Actually, the latest versions of TiVo and it's clones now are
starting to display popup advertisements when the user attempts to
fastforward through the commercials.

And Tivo, as a company is now (or soon to be) roadkill. First, the
cable set top box manufacturers are duplicating their boxes' functions.

And anybody but the brain dead will think twice or three times to buying
a box that requires a subscription, a phone line, and will snitch on
you about every time you did a rewind to get another look at a good
cleavage shot.


The primary reasons I never got a TiVo.


And now this. They really needed to figure out who
their customers are.


Truth is: Most people don't care about the cost, the privacy
invasion, or even the use of the phone.

They care about features, and convenience. Which goes a long way to
explaining why TiVo boxes are being replaced with Cable boxes with TiVo
features. Many of which are actually TiVo boxes in cable clothing.

"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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Mark Zenier wrote:
In article ,
D Peter Maus wrote:
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And anybody but the brain dead will think twice or three times to buying
a box that requires a subscription, a phone line, and will snitch on
you about every time you did a rewind to get another look at a good
cleavage shot.


The primary reasons I never got a TiVo.

Once you have on, and I have had them since the first year... something like
7 or 8 years ago... and could not lieve without one. I hve three different
ones in the house.


And now this. They really needed to figure out who
their customers are.


Truth is: Most people don't care about the cost, the privacy invasion,
or even the use of the phone.

They care about features, and convenience. Which goes a long way to
explaining why TiVo boxes are being replaced with Cable boxes with TiVo
features. Many of which are actually TiVo boxes in cable clothing.

I have a cable "equivalent" at my weekned place. It is hateful in every
aspect (Time Warner) from the awful software to the remote control to the
highly inaccurate listings of upcoming progframs. I am swiutching to Direct
TV and a TIVO sometime this year when I can be there on a weekday to meet
the installer. A friend who moved to an apartment where he could not get
Direct TV had to use cable for a year. He said one of the main reasons for
mving was the awful cable implementation of its TiVo rip-off.

Up yours,,,,,Blah blah blah,I knows me listener stuff. www.us963.com
Jacksonnnnnnn,,, where GOD isn't dead and 103.FM.
Bite me!
cuhulin

I know the good stuff,and I dont need a stinking shotewave to get it
either.We are Mississippi Coon Asses around here.
cuhulin

A few years ago,I once counted no less than thirteen Stupid tv
commercials,one right after the other,non stop on a movie I was trying
to watch on tv.I am the World's Worst Hater of ALL kinds of
advertisements and commercials,PERIOD!
cuhulin