March 24, 2011
Has HD Radio Reached a Tipping Point?

From time to time we hear word that HD Radio is near a tipping point,
a point where awareness and interest in HD Radio reaches critical mass
and the medium takes off.

If Google is any indication, HD Radio has already reached a tipping
point, a tip not toward success, but instead toward oblivion.

Google Insights is a tool to track interest in a topic or product
using search activity as the metric. Type in Charlie Sheen, and you’ll
find that interest in Sheen started taking off on February 25th, and
exploded on March 2nd. Aside from a secondary peak on March 8th,
interest has steadily declined since.

The chart above shows interest in Pandora radio. Pandora is an
interesting study because despite continued growth over the last few
years, interest actually peaked in early 2009. Since then, interest
has fallen off 50%.

With registered users topping 80 million, maybe everyone knows about
Pandora by now and there’s no need to search for it.

HD Radio is in a very different place. With limited awareness of HD
and very slow set sales, HD needs to be in a growth mode when it comes
to search.

If we saw growing numbers of listeners using Google to learn more
about HD Radio, it might mean HD Radio is gaining momentum, and it is
just a matter of time before people start buying HD radios.

Unfortunately, interest in HD is declining, not growing. Interest
peaked in December 2007, and has been steadily declining since. Each
December there is a seasonal peak, as there is for most tech gifts,
but interest in each subsequent Christmas season has dropped.

Interest in HD has fallen by two-thirds since its 2007 peak.

Graphing Pandora and HD Radio against one another shows the dramatic
difference between the two service’s arc of interest. The tipping
point for HD Radio actually occurred in 2007. It was the year that
interest in Pandora exceeded interest in HD, and since then HD
interest has steadily eroded.

While search interest is just one metric, declining interest is one
more negative sign of HD Radio's struggle to gain traction.

As an aside, HD channels are showing some signs of life in Arbitron,
apparently fueled by 250 watt FM translator simulcasts. Maybe AM
broadcasters should lobby for commercial low power FM allocations
rather than more HD power!

http://harkerresearch.typepad.com/ra...ing-point.html

The ****ers stole the idea of running Google Trends graphs! But,
that's ok because HD Radio is headed towards oblivion! LMFAO!!!

That's a GOOD One! ~ Walter Brennan - Rio Bravo movie.

Purrrrrrple shadddows in the Canyonnn,,,,,, just my Rifle, my Pony and
meeee,,,,,
cuhulin

On Mar 25, 2:39*pm, "FarceWatch" wrote:
Harker and Farce:

Google Trends are not an indication of profitability you nitwit.

"Predicting the Present with Google Trends"

http://ec.europa.eu/bepa/pdf/seminar...he_present.pdf

LMFAO!!!

On 3/25/11 08:58 , SMSbuster wrote:
March 24, 2011
Has HD Radio Reached a Tipping Point?

From time to time we hear word that HD Radio is near a tipping point,
a point where awareness and interest in HD Radio reaches critical mass
and the medium takes off.

If Google is any indication, HD Radio has already reached a tipping
point, a tip not toward success, but instead toward oblivion.

Google Insights is a tool to track interest in a topic or product
using search activity as the metric. Type in Charlie Sheen, and you’ll
find that interest in Sheen started taking off on February 25th, and
exploded on March 2nd. Aside from a secondary peak on March 8th,
interest has steadily declined since.

The chart above shows interest in Pandora radio. Pandora is an
interesting study because despite continued growth over the last few
years, interest actually peaked in early 2009. Since then, interest
has fallen off 50%.

With registered users topping 80 million, maybe everyone knows about
Pandora by now and there’s no need to search for it.

HD Radio is in a very different place. With limited awareness of HD
and very slow set sales, HD needs to be in a growth mode when it comes
to search.

If we saw growing numbers of listeners using Google to learn more
about HD Radio, it might mean HD Radio is gaining momentum, and it is
just a matter of time before people start buying HD radios.

Unfortunately, interest in HD is declining, not growing. Interest
peaked in December 2007, and has been steadily declining since. Each
December there is a seasonal peak, as there is for most tech gifts,
but interest in each subsequent Christmas season has dropped.

Interest in HD has fallen by two-thirds since its 2007 peak.

Graphing Pandora and HD Radio against one another shows the dramatic
difference between the two service’s arc of interest. The tipping
point for HD Radio actually occurred in 2007. It was the year that
interest in Pandora exceeded interest in HD, and since then HD
interest has steadily eroded.

While search interest is just one metric, declining interest is one
more negative sign of HD Radio's struggle to gain traction.

As an aside, HD channels are showing some signs of life in Arbitron,
apparently fueled by 250 watt FM translator simulcasts. Maybe AM
broadcasters should lobby for commercial low power FM allocations
rather than more HD power!

http://harkerresearch.typepad.com/ra...ing-point.html

The ****ers stole the idea of running Google Trends graphs! But,
that's ok because HD Radio is headed towards oblivion! LMFAO!!!


Makes you wonder how long it will be before the SEC realizes that
the only thing iBiquity was really selling was stock.

On Mar 25, 3:52*pm, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:
On 3/25/11 08:58 , SMSbuster wrote:





March 24, 2011
Has HD Radio Reached a Tipping Point?

*From time to time we hear word that HD Radio is near a tipping point,
a point where awareness and interest in HD Radio reaches critical mass
and the medium takes off.

If Google is any indication, HD Radio has already reached a tipping
point, a tip not toward success, but instead toward oblivion.

Google Insights is a tool to track interest in a topic or product
using search activity as the metric. Type in Charlie Sheen, and you’ll
find that interest in Sheen started taking off on February 25th, and
exploded on March 2nd. Aside from a secondary peak on March 8th,
interest has steadily declined since.

The chart above shows interest in Pandora radio. Pandora is an
interesting study because despite continued growth over the last few
years, interest actually peaked in early 2009. Since then, interest
has fallen off 50%.

With registered users topping 80 million, maybe everyone knows about
Pandora by now and there’s no need to search for it.

HD Radio is in a very different place. With limited awareness of HD
and very slow set sales, HD needs to be in a growth mode when it comes
to search.

If we saw growing numbers of listeners using Google to learn more
about HD Radio, it might mean HD Radio is gaining momentum, and it is
just a matter of time before people start buying HD radios.

Unfortunately, interest in HD is declining, not growing. Interest
peaked in December 2007, and has been steadily declining since. Each
December there is a seasonal peak, as there is for most tech gifts,
but interest in each subsequent Christmas season has dropped.

Interest in HD has fallen by two-thirds since its 2007 peak.

Graphing Pandora and HD Radio against one another shows the dramatic
difference between the two service’s arc of interest. The tipping
point for HD Radio actually occurred in 2007. It was the year that
interest in Pandora exceeded interest in HD, and since then HD
interest has steadily eroded.

While search interest is just one metric, declining interest is one
more negative sign of HD Radio's struggle to gain traction.

As an aside, HD channels are showing some signs of life in Arbitron,
apparently fueled by 250 watt FM translator simulcasts. Maybe AM
broadcasters should lobby for commercial low power FM allocations
rather than more HD power!

http://harkerresearch.typepad.com/ra.../has-hd-radio-...

The ****ers stole the idea of running Google Trends graphs! But,
that's ok because HD Radio is headed towards oblivion! LMFAO!!!

* Makes you wonder how long it will be before the SEC realizes that
the only thing iBiquity was really selling was stock.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I'm hoping that Keefe Bartels and Galax Wolf will expand their
investigation that far. Perhaps, if Struble gets it in the shorts for
auto/consumer fraud, it will go into criminal fraud. The FTC does know
about iBiquity, as I caught them searching on "hd radio scam", a
couple of years ago. It will just take time, as there is a lot to
investigate. I gort forwarded an email from Keefe Bartels that they
have "very good liability facts".

Looka here, ilk.Supposin some day I buy a touch tablet, when the prices
get down real low.Velocity Micro has them for not much over a hundred
dollars.
http://www.velocitymicro.com

If I buy a whatever brand name touch tablet, as long as it will pick up
a WiFi signal (maybe a WiFi only touch tablet?) Good enough,,, will it
work OK from right here at doggy's couch? without me having to pay a
monthly RIP OFF data fee, or whatever they call it? There is a tall cell
tower just behind Metrocenter Mall, I reckon that tower is about 600 of
my foot steps South of doggy's couch.It is about two tenths of a mile
(or a little less) from doggy's couch, according to the odometer in my
1983 Dodge van.
cuhulin

On 3/25/2011 12:52 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

Makes you wonder how long it will be before the SEC realizes that the
only thing iBiquity was really selling was stock.

OMG, iBiquity has been selling stock?! It's just terrible when a company
that's privately held and that is not traded on any stock exchange is
selling stock.

Of course the reality of digital radio is very different than what our
favorite troll writes about it.

There are two indicators of how digital radio is faring.

1. How well transmitters are selling and how many new digital
transmitters are being introduced by equipment manufacturers.

Harris, Continental, and Nautel all have reported increased sales of
digital radio transmission equipment.

2. How well receivers are selling and how many new digital receivers are
being introduced by receiver manufacturers.

Receiver sales went way up in 2010, and in 2011 the rate of increase has
increased even faster due to so many new vehicles being offered with
digital radio as standard or optional equipment.

Understandably, the success of digital radio, especially in the U.S.,
but now spreading to other regions as well, greatly upsets those that
have somehow become vested in hoping for the failure of digital radio.

On Mar 26, 1:49*pm, SMS wrote:
On 3/25/2011 12:52 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

Makes you wonder how long it will be before the SEC realizes that the
only thing iBiquity was really selling was stock.

OMG, iBiquity has been selling stock?! It's just terrible when a company
that's privately held and that is not traded on any stock exchange is
selling stock.

Of course the reality of digital radio is very different than what our
favorite troll writes about it.

There are two indicators of how digital radio is faring.

1. How well transmitters are selling and how many new digital
transmitters are being introduced by equipment manufacturers.

Harris, Continental, and Nautel all have reported increased sales of
digital radio transmission equipment.

2. How well receivers are selling and how many new digital receivers are
being introduced by receiver manufacturers.

Receiver sales went way up in 2010, and in 2011 the rate of increase has
increased even faster due to so many new vehicles being offered with
digital radio as standard or optional equipment.

Understandably, the success of digital radio, especially in the U.S.,
but now spreading to other regions as well, greatly upsets those that
have somehow become vested in hoping for the failure of digital radio.

SMS is back, everyone! Hurray! LMFAO!!

I didn't Invent this, only Plagiarizing it from somebody else,,,,

the Din of Ibiquity!
cuhulin

In case COMMIE Big Sis and COMMIE Big Brother wants to know, my snail
mail April 2011 PC World magazine showed up here abouts twinty minits
ahgo.

U.S.Post Office is going to eliminate a Lot of Jobs and a bunch of Post
Offices too.
cuhulin