[BC] Seen at the NAB

[Dave]

Hello Harold,

I had not seen your pages but am enjoying them thoroughly!  I will try to
contribute some manuals and pictures when I have time.  I am quite happy to
have been able to download the schematics for the Collins 212b.

On topic....

Since there were a number of low cost HD radios on the floor one could
dispense them I suppose right next to the digital players.  The challenge
for broadcasters is to show listeners why the new digital broadcast
technology will give them more choices and provide the quality they are
looking for along with the content they cannot get with an IPOD or other
player.  Localism is still a major key here for the medium.  If live and
local were not important, then we would have already been ruined by portable
cassette and CD players years ago.  Additionally, cost free radio for
consumers is darned hard to beat.  While I admit I and most others I know
have subscribed to satellite services for example, I also can say that very
few actually keep up the subscription from what I've seen.  So I don't think
the IPOD or Sat. is going to put us in a display on the Mall in D.C.  But
we've got to get better blowing our own horn.

Dave Cooper,
Ops/CE Cameron Broadcasting, Inc.

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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Harold Hallikainen
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [BC] Seen at the NAB


>> No, I did not see any IBOC radios in the vending machine.  In fact there
>> were NO radios or televisions of any kind.  The same day I read that
>> IPOD sales had reached 100 million.
>>
>> Are they going to stick us in the Smithsonian, right next to the
>> dinoaaurs?
>>

I spent quite a while talking with a guy from the Smithsonian this
morning. I told him about my "saving history from the dumpster" at
http//www.hallikainen.org/BroadcastHistory . He commented that their job
was the same thing, saving history from the dumpster.

So... Barry, I, and other broadcast historians are up there with the
Smithsonian!

Harold

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