[BC] Monitoring IBUZ Secondaries - NOT

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

Kent:

It sure sounds like someones a bit grumpy today...

*Hands Rich some Metamucil*

Paul


On 2/8/07, Kent Winrich <kwinrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK so that happened to ONE station.  So?  Life goes on Rich.
>
> I listen to HD2 stations quite often and never once here a repeated song.
>
> Basing the HD rollout on one station... well I would question your
> statistics.
>
> By the way, you put up words about what would happen to WGN versus WGCI,
> if
> WGN went HD.  Shall we chat about that situation?  Looks like it blew up
> in
> your face Rich.
>
> Have a nice day.
>
>
> On 2/8/07, Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > I keep reading about the awesome spread of IBUZ. Jabba the HD
> > declared in a gushing Ogilvy press release, recently, about Sharper
> > Image that this is an "awesome" rollout. He actually used the word.
> >
> > I have a receiver. I've just been listening to a secondary where the
> > audio has been in a loop for more than 45 minutes. Obviously no one
> > is listening or monitoring. It took me 5 calls to the station
> > licensed to Enfield, CT. No engineer available. No PD available and
> > no GM available. I had to leave a message with the receptionist. If I
> > were an ordinary listener I would have tuned away long before but I
> > wanted to see how long it would take for someone to notice. About 5
> > minutes later the problem was corrected. Maybe the receptionist knows
> > the system.
> >
> > I wonder how many receivers that would have sold? As an industry do
> > we really care about these signals?
> >
> > I read in AllAccess that Sharper Image is going to carry the BA
> > Receptor. I happened to be in a Sharper Image store in downtown
> > Providence last weekend. If it's a major promotion you could have
> > fooled me. The receiver was on the bottom shelf. The only indication
> > of what it was was on the price tag - no description. I had to sit on
> > the floor to tune it. It was drowned out by several CD players and iPod
> > demos.
> >
> > Compared with all the spiffy gadgets they sell, this was pretty dull
> > stuff. Someone has to get off their butts and start promoting this
> > stuff to more than the industry.
> >
> > Rich
>
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