[BC] Monitoring IBUZ Secondaries - NOT

[Kent Winrich]

HD Radio was OFF the air during the book.  It just came back on... OOPS!
You go spend your time talking to the DoE.  I guess you have a lot of time
on your hands.

You know Rich, I would be so lucky to be as smart as you.  Or perhaps I
should just move over to make room for your head.  We have given you enough
rope.


On 2/8/07, Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> ------ At 01:43 PM 2/8/2007, Kent Winrich wrote: -------
>
> >OK so that happened to ONE station.  So?  Life goes on Rich.
>
> Hmm. Then why did a member of the HD Dominion warn that all would be
> lost if stations didn't pay attention to their secondaries. It
> appears it's happening regularly. It isn't an IBUZ issue. It's an
> issue of how important stations consider their signals. It happens
> even to automated analog signals where no one pays attention. I
> believe I read it in an interview in one of the trades. Since
> virtually no one has receivers, they don't pay attention. That was
> the guy's concern because it affects the ability to sell receivers
> based on "extra" channels. I believe it was an interview with the
> Dominion's head guy where he asked stations to pay as close attention
> to secondaries as the analog. I just got rid of several years worth
> of magazines, so I'll have to ask Barry, Paul McLane, Chris Scherer,
> Jim Carnegie and Tom Taylor who remembers publishing the interview.
> I'll get back to you on it and we can include it in our WGN chat.
>
> >I listen to HD2 stations quite often and never once here a repeated song.
>
> That's a programming issue. This station sounded like a skipping
> record, not a repeated song. About 4 seconds of music repeated over
> and over for a very long time. It was happening when I tuned in and
> continued for about 45 minutes. I don't know how long it had been
> going on before I heard it or how long it would have continued if I
> hadn't called to tell them.
>
> >Basing the HD rollout on one station... well I would question your
> >statistics.
>
> Where am I basing the rollout on one station? I've been surveying
> retailers of all kinds for quite a while. While my statistics come
> from visits to retailers they agree with the most recent Bridge
> results which are much more statistically accurate. Their bottom line
> is consumers have "more awareness, less interest" than previous
> surveys. I realize, as IBUZ's #1 cheerleader that you would never
> accept any such report.
>
> I'm having trouble receiving any AM and few FM IBUZ, signals with an
> Accurian (so far the most sensitive tabletop receiver I've used), yet
> you seem to be able to receive stations from the other end of the
> country. I actually have an external antenna in the attic in a
> windowed turret. It's the highest point on the house - an old
> Victorian. You also seem to have forgotten that Kenwood loaned me a
> receiver and I drove about a 100 mile radius that included Boston,
> Albany, Hartford, Worcester and a number of smaller markets. I'm very
> well aware of how IBUZ works in New England's mountainous terrain.
>
> >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.
>
> How's that? The Fall 06 Arbitron (the most recent full book) has WGCI
> with a 5.8 12+ compared with WGN's 5.4 12+. I called WGN and was told
> IBUZ is on the air. What would we chat about? I have to call the
> Director of Engineering to get a date it went back on the air so I
> can begin the 5 book count. 5 books takes 15 months. Nothing blows up
> until that period passes. I realize your ratings analysis competence
> is likely low, so I'll tell you not to include trends, only full
> books when all the weighted data are available. After I speak with
> Jim Carollo I'll have confirmation that it's actually on. The guy I
> talked to wasn't absolutely sure. Not sure enough to be quoted in
> print. He asked me to call Jim.
>
> As a former Tribune employee in New York (you might recall they own
> WGN) I'm actually rooting for WGN. I was with the company at WPIX-FM,
> New York, when WGCI first beat WGN. It was a sad day for us. Almost
> as much of a shock as if someone said KOIT-FM beat KGO, San
> Francisco. It wasn't possible, we thought. Wayne Vriesman, then head
> of Tribune Radio, was at WPIX the day the advances came out. Not a
> day one forgets.
>
> Hold your hair in place. We still have at least another year before
> anything blows up.
>
> Rich
>
>
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