[BC] Our Salvation. The HD Dominion

[Harold Hallikainen]

> I did another sweep of custom installers and big box stores, both to
> see what effect Stern was having on sales and how IBUZ receivers were
> selling. SIRIUS receivers are flying off the shelves because of
> Stern. They do mourn the fact that Willie isn't going to buy one, but
> they expect to survive. Every store has told me I'm still the first
> and only person to ask about HD Radio. I was told custom installers
> are usually on the leading edge of technology. Not a single one of
> the five I visited had even heard of HD radio. I'm doing more to
> inform them about it than anyone else, it seems. I give them the
> manufacturer's web address and the page number of the Crutchfield
> catalog. I say absolutely nothing negative about the system. It'll be
> interesting when I do it all over again next month. The manufacturer
> should be paying me for spreading the word.

20 or more years ago, I did a similar sweep of local retailers asking
about AM stereo. They all swore it did not exist and was not possible. I
had a letter in Broadcasting Magazine about it WAY back.

I always liked the Kaiser logo of "Find a need and fill it." I always saw
it on cement trucks.

Harold

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