Re: [Swprograms] OT: Digital radio market study

[Mike Barraclough <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a recent report with a different take:

http://followthemedia.com/alldigital/rainbow07112007.htm

Mike

--- Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That's a good point.  We were a less mobile society
> as well -- we
> traveled less for business or pleasure, we didn't
> move as often.
> 
> There also wasn't the competition to radio.  You had
> 3 to 6 TV
> channels in a city, no video games, no DVD rentals,
> no Internet, no
> iPods.
> 
> Radio has been marginalized, and in this era of
> user-created,
> user-controlled content, (recall the Time Magazine
> "person of the
> year"), the genie won't easily go back into the
> bottle.
> 
> Rich Cuff
> 
> On Nov 8, 2007 9:31 AM,  <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Can I add one more thing?
> >
> > Recall the creative explosion that characterized
> FM radio in the
> > late '60s and early '70s.  New formats, new ideas,
> new approaches
> > to "doing radio" came out of that time.  The main
> difference I see
> > between the willingness to push the envelope then
> and the rank
> > timidity we experience now is something that I'll
> use an economic
> > regulatory term to describe--"concentration of
> control".  Simply put,
> > we didn't have it then.  So we had a great many
> more "laboratories" in
> > which creative minds could experiment freely. 
> With a handful of group
> > owners tightly controlling what their O&Os and
> affiliates do (all in
> > the name of preserving the bloody bottom line for
> just the next
> > quarter), there's no freedom to play around... no
> freedom to learn
> > from failure...or, to put it succinctly--the
> discover a new success.
> >
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