[BC] HD Radio -- Folks we have to get it right!

[Robert Meuser]

Corny:

You are not getting it completely.

Radio is irrelevant. So is satellite radio. These new methods also are. This is 
an on demand world. The only reason TV still works is that they have cable to 
cover their asses with DVRs. I would love to listen to the grateful dead hour on 
XM but it is not delivered in my time frame nor is much of anything else they 
deliver. Anyone who is thinking in a broadcast mode is lost. I think Wall Street 
knows this which is why BC stocks are in the sewer and falling.

R

Cornelius Gould wrote:
> It is these opportunities that are in front of us as broadcasters that 
> will give us a fighting chance in the next couple years as available 
> alternate entertainment avenues explode in the next 1.5 - 2 years.
> 
> If we have enough ***stations*** *not* operating correctly to cause the 
> radios capable of picking up these alternate programming streams to be 
> returned as defective, then the whole thing will go down in flames, and 
> with it, all opportunities to branch out.  We then become more 
> irrelevant than we are now, and die as an industry.
> 
> Broadcasters harp on Satellite Radio as the reason to move forward with 
> this, but I don't see it that way.  It is all the other delivery methods 
> being developed that will allow hundreds of stereo digital audio 
> channels (at higher bitrates than broadcast and Satellite radio) to be 
> received both in portable and mobile systems that will be the biggest 
> threat.  I wouldn't at all be surprised if these new competing systems 
> drive Satellite Radio out of business in a few years when they (the new 
> services) are in a fully operational state.  This will make Satellite 
> Radio totally irrelevant at that point as these new players can create 
> as many national channels as they desire, and can also split these 
> systems to have regional services to serve local audiences as well.
> 
> Where do we stand in this new world communications order?
> 
> Check out what Qualcomm and others are up to to get my point here. They 
> ain't talking about no wimpy WI-Max, or 802.x hotspots.  They are 
> talking about covering entire markets with broadband digital 
> entertainment / information systems to be received on computers, cell 
> phones, and anything else that has a little computer in it, and can pick 
> up RF.  All this coming to a neighborhood transmitter site near us in 
> the next year or so!
> 
> -Cornelius
> 
> cldube wrote:
> 
>> Actually, multicasting has the potential (once/if people get 
>> receivers- there's the rub) to answer
>> a problem that has plagued us for years- we've wanted to maintain our 
>> emphasis on music programming
>> in the region, in contrast to many (the majority?) public radio 
>> stations that are dumping music for talk and news programming.
>> Multicasting allows us to expand our program offering in news and 
>> talk, while maintaining our classical and jazz on our main channel, in 
>> a fashion
>> that has been hitherto difficult. We have done this to some degree by 
>> supplying programming for a local AM station for the past several 
>> years, but that signal disappears at night almost altogether and in 
>> the winter it's very limited. Many of our listeners simply cannot 
>> receive it at all. With multicasting, we can provide this service to 
>> the bulk of our 60 dBu contour area for the first time to those with 
>> receivers. We are also streaming this service. We don't have to 
>> sacrifice our music offering in favor of informational radio.
>>
>> Chuck Dube
>> WFCR
>> Amherst, MA
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sid Schweiger" <sid at wrko.com>
>> To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [BC] HD Radio -- Folks we have to get it right!
>>
>>
>>>>>> What?  Two or three channels of the same old schlock?  That's an
>>>
>>>
>>> improvement?
>>>
>>> Why "same old schlock"? It's the chance to make something new!<<
>>>
>>> Even funnier/more pathetic:  The only concrete plans I have heard of, to
>>> date, for HD2 channels have been three stations (that I know of), that
>>> have changed formats in the past year, putting their DEAD formats on HD2
>>> to placate the complainers (and, of course, if just a tenth of those
>>> complainers had had Arbitron diaries, the formats wouldn't be dead,
>>> would they?).  If this is what lies in store for
>>> multicasting...fragmenting the audience even further, with formats that
>>> wouldn't fly on the main channel...then what's the point?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sid Schweiger
>>> IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC
>>> WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - WRKO - WVEI
>>> 20 Guest St / 3d Floor
>>> Boston MA  02135-2040
>>> Phone: 617-779-5369
>>> Fax: 617-779-5379
>>> E-Mail: sid at wrko.com
>>>
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