[BC] Digital Walkman?

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In a message dated 01/09/2006 11:22:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
Robertm at broadcast.net writes:

> I dont know about that. Boston Acoustics sold out their entire first 
> production 
>  run and are scrambling to bring in more. This is only one manufacturer. My 
> guess 
>  is their are 10s of thousands receivers out there. Still a small number 
> compared 
>  to billions of analog radios

Which was my point... audiophools gobble-up those mega-cables, while the 
hucksters gobble up the audiophools' money. Station employees, management, and 
techno-geeks (with money) have bought-up all these radios. Rich Wood's numbers 
looked pretty reasonable... less than 1 radio for 1/2 the total number of 
stations "out there".

More accurately, we should probably divide the number of radios sold by the 
number of stations actually using IBUZ right now. I'm sure the numbers are 
still less than impressive for each station.

What about the other stations on the dial, who have had significant "holes" 
punched into their coverage by "neighbor" stations' IBUZ jammers? How do we 
start counting those lost listeners? iPod sales? Maybe.

Willie...