This is
my last message on this reflector, as I have unsubscribed
and also asked my IRCA membership to be terminated. DXing is not the
radio
friendly hobby it once was, living a symbiotic and friendly
relationship. Members
of both clubs are antagonistic to radio, and qualify as grouchy old men
in most
cases. No wonder stations don’t verify any more!
In my
discussions with Mr. Mangled English, I have
been asked by Lynn
to “simmer down” when I was the one called a liar, cheat, thief of a
billion radios, ad nauseum. Obviously, someone who is in radio who
actually
knows what is going on in the industry has no place in this club or on
this
group.
W: I
run a multi million dollar research
department, and our job is to find out what listeners want. When we see
research done by others (as in the iPod issue) we independently verify
it,
using the highest standards of polling with a national staff of over 60
people
who only do radio research. Or job is to protect $3.5 billion in radio
properties and we do that by giving the listeners what they want, and
we do it
well because our sector listens an average of 24 hours a week, 25% more
than
the general market. We are not out to prove an untruth, as that would
totally
violate or reason for existence. But there are a few people in here
with
absurdly and bizarrely wrong ideas about radio and radio listeners who
have no
interest in learning truth, and insult the character and values of any
who
disagree.
You all
deserve each other.
Thanks?
Sure!
Thank you, for substantiating my point.
W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (Southeast) Florida
David Gleason wrote:
Thanks.
I did the poll myself with my in house call center.
Sounds
like nonsense to
me. Just like most poll results, it reflects the results wanted by
those
who pay for the poll.
No ads, no fading from obstructions, play what you want when you want.
A
play list is more than just content, it is the order and frequency
played as
well. You collect all the songs you can, but you listen to what you
like.
Curt
David Gleason wrote:
There is definitely an element of "it's my list" but the fact is, extensive
research showed the average number of songs on an iPod is 300 and they
closely mirror the playlist of the radio station the iPod user listens to.
The key issue is that carrying an iPod is cool, while a (analog) radio is
not. iPod = cool. Digital = Cool. Make radio digital, it is cooler than it
was and moves up in image among entertainment choices.
-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] IBOC/analog reception comparisons.
It doesn't have anything to do with digital, except as a means to an
end. It is their play list, not someone else's, that's why they like it.
W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (Southeast) Florida
David Gleason wrote:
Put a frame around those comments! Very nicely stated, Russ.
Perception is reality, or why would people prefer the ultra compressed
audio
on an iPod to CDs and FM? It's because it's an iPod and it's digital!