RadioBanter - View Single Post - US Broadcasters Missed the Digital Boat 20 Years Ago

David · October 4th 07, 04:17 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:34:53 -0700, wrote:

On Oct 3, 9:49?am, David wrote:
They could have built a Eureka 347 type system where everybody has an
equal signal (and the idea of that killed the deal). Than along came
Sirius and XM and suddenly the dinocasters want to ''compete'' with a
horribly bad digital scheme that no one else in the world wants
anything to do with.

Listeners do not care about the the trasmission medium of analog
versus digital for terrestrial radio - this is why interest is slowing
in the UK, and interest has stalled in Canada and the US.

The formats are what's driving people away. Canned music is
ubiquitous.