Re: [Swprograms] OT: Digital radio market study

[jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Interesting take, Mike.  Thanks for that perspective... and the 
source.  I've bookmarked "followthemedia" for future reference.  
Working in the telecom regulatory sphere, it never hurts to have more 
sources.  (Well, it does, because the more info you have the harder it 
seems to be to make definitive judgements, but...c'est la vie.)

With all the relentless focus on "the market" these days as solution 
to everything, it's enlightening to see that some of the most earnest 
purveyors of markets over regulation generally, want a specific 
regulatory edict sunseting analogue radio as the most effective means 
of ensuring a market for digital.  The thinking seems to be 
that, "Just because we have a new (and presumably better and more 
flexible) platform, that doesn't mean that we should have to alter the 
business model in any meaningful fashion."

I guess for some, competition only works when risk is eliminated.  Can 
you truly have one without the other?

John Figliozzi  

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Barraclough <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2007 11:53 am
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] OT: Digital radio market study
To: Shortwave programming discussion <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 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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