The Internet - a short-term fix
At the end of the Denver Post’s generally well done piece on Colorado Public Radio:
All parties agree the long-range future is HD radio. The promise of multiple channels delivering a range of programming remains out of reach. Dana Davis Rehm, NPR senior vice president who oversees program services and audience research, said multicasting on various [...]
Pondering the End of Analog Radio in Britain
It should be sometime between 2015 and 2020, says the Digital Radio Working Group, in its interim report. The Guardian reports that, by then, all the national, regional and major local stations (BBC Local Radio and others) would have migrated to DAB.
But this wouldn’t necessarily be the end of analog FM - the interim report [...]
PRPD: McTaggart’s Seven Questions
I moderated a really fascinating session today - “Building Audience Beyond Broadcast” - which, despite the title, looked at the new broadcast technology, HD Radio, as well as the strategic assessments that stations are making as they consider an array of non-broadcast channels to reach their audiences.
Robin Gehl of Cincinnati Public Radio, talked about the [...]
iHD, anyone?
Nice piece from Mark Ramsey of hear2.0, noting that Apple sold more iPhones in three days than the radio industry has sold HD Radios in three years.
Now strictly speaking it’s not fair to compare a tech phenomenon to the many that are not (okay, to the almost all that are not). Then again, very few [...]
The Post-High Fidelity Era
Internet streaming and mp3’s are teaching us some important lessons about changing consumer expectations about audio quality. The Wall Street Journal reports this week that consumers are compromising a pristine level of sound reproduction for convenience and portability. This isn’t exactly headline news for any of us, but I think we haven’t begun to fully [...]
