Last question on the HD radio panel
I'll spare you the details, but I was the only one that bordered on "End it", I said some days, I think we should end it, other days I think we can mend it.
But afterwards, a couple people came up to me and said, you should have just said, "kill it now!" There is a lot of frustration in the radio industry over this. HD radio isn't taking off. It's being marketed completely wrong. It doesn't solve a problem. It's taking too much of the limited resources that terrestrial stations have.
I guess I should have been meaner and just said, "End it now" after all.
Update: Video of the HD Radio panel here, courtesy of TV Worldwide.
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posted by Rusty Hodge at
Monday, April 14, 2008
3 Comments:
I would have said, "end this farce, now!"
End it now? Kind of mild isn't it?
You should have said: kill it, murder it, bury it, incinerate it, give it the chair, poison it, electrocute it, drop it off a bridge, put cement boots on it, shoot it dead, run it over with a cement truck, anything. It's becoming a national disgrace and is an FCC sanctioned monopoly that is just not working and it's getting jammed down our throats needlessly. We need to get rid of this jamming, range cutting, dropping out terrible technology before it completely kills radio even for us die hard fans. It is ruining analog reception everywhere and it will get even worse not better if the FM system IBOC systems are allowed to raise the digital component of their carriers, more digital = more interference with your neighbors. Digital radio is not working anywhere in the world and we have the worst system of them all.
Quit jamming. Isn't that what HD does? Jam AM and FM to ruin? Was HD jamming the final straw for listeners long tired of BigRadio's three talk hosts and twenty songs?
BigRadio stupidly denies HD jamming. Listeners aren't fooled. The more listeners reject HD, the harder BigRadio, iNiquity, FCC, and squash-rot NAB try to force it upon us.
The harder they try, the more citizens reject HD.
BigRadio saw HD as a great cheat strategy, a way to short-circuit the free market by jamming competitors off the air and listeners into submission.
The grift consumes the grifter, always. Isn't that why they call such things 'carny shills'? Having first tried to circumvent their audience's desires, BigRadio now can't see reality at all.
HD is over.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
15 April, 2008
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