Re: [IRCA] Wince-worthy IBOC praise article

[Bill Harms <philcobill@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott, you asked a question and here is an answer, here it is.  As has 
been stated before here and many other places countless times, it is not 
the delivery system that is the problem, rather it is WHAT is being 
delivered.  I asked my 22-year old son a little bit ago if he ever 
listens to radio, he said "no." I asked him why, he said there is 
nothing there to listen to. I asked him if there was something there 
that you wanted would he listen, he said yes.

Yes this is an anecdote and problem doesn't prove that much. But how 
many times is this story repeated across this country. Yes, there is 
room for niche broadcasting, but how about the younger folks? How are 
the stations faring with this segment of the population compared to the 
past?

Scott, you know me well enough to understand that I like 
radio-in-general.  I am a tower chaser like you and I am a radio 
historian as well.  I am a DXer, last of all. DXing is just and offshoot 
of my love of radio. I would like to see radio be viable, but it is 
becoming less and less so. I have to wonder if it will eventually die. 
(I am talking about the AM and FM bands.) It might survive in a 
different form.

Regards
Bill Harms


Scott Fybush wrote:
> Patrick Martin wrote:
> 
>> I know nothing about the writer, but many of us get a bit upset over
>> IBOC, including myself. There is nothing we can do except wait it out.
>> If it doesn't make money, it will be gone. How long that will take, who
>> knows? 
> 
> These statements are all entirely correct...which continues to beg the 
> question: if there's nothing we as DXers can do except wait it out, why 
> do some of us get SO very worked up by any bit of even vaguely pro-IBOC 
> writing that gets forwarded to the list, regardless of the source or the 
> date on it?
> 
> As someone who writes for several industry trade publications (Radio 
> World until recently, Radio Journal for a while now, and soon Radio 
> Guide as well), I can tell you that most of these articles make 
> precisely zero impact on the industry.
> 
> How long has it been since anyone, pro-IBOC or anti-, has really had 
> anything new to add to the discussion? It certainly feels, especially on 
> this end, like it's just the same old complaints being rehashed 
> endlessly, and to what point?
> 
> s

-- 
Bill Harms
Elkridge, Maryland

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