tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078262770562171996.post8606905938624119343..comments2023-07-08T13:44:21.625+01:00Comments on Grant Goddard : radio blog: Trick or treat? £55m to be spent scaring UK consumers into buying DAB radiosGrant Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13171054298318119431noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078262770562171996.post-70600848270493579052010-11-22T15:29:37.185+00:002010-11-22T15:29:37.185+00:00Facts don’t slow them down. “If you can’t convinc...Facts don’t slow them down. “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”<br /><br />Illusion: BBC News – Today: Digital is ‘transitional backbone of radio’<br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9215000/9215046.stm<br />Ford Ennals of Digital Radio UK, “There are 40% of all your listeners this morning listen to this program, are listening on a DAB radio.”<br />Ford Ennals, two minutes later, “I said 40% of listeners are listening on digital.”<br />[RAJARs reports ~15% DAB—including FM and Internet listening on DAB/FM/Internet radios—and ~25% Digital.]<br />[The BBC’s 800,000 World Cup match video streams last summer demonstrated current capability for more than 8 million audio streams—without the Internet “crashing”—plenty to complement FM radio, adding location and time-shift.]<br /><br /><br />Reality: BBC News -Today: 2015 digital switchover 'not achievable' http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9214000/9214825.stm<br />The Queen is concerned about losing BBC Radio 4 with switchover. Buckingham Palace was poor DAB reception, so a DAB repeater was installed. Windsor Castle is not resolved.<br />Roberts Radio believes 2015 is not a realistic switchover date, “we know collectively those [target] dates are not achievable”, and 2025 is a much more realistic date.<br /><br /><br />The interchangeable use of Digital radio, usually representing only the special interest DAB, but including DAB, TV, and Internet when the larger numbers are desired, is deceit—far beyond sloppiness to be intentional misrepresentation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078262770562171996.post-53163611070930877742010-11-22T14:26:21.861+00:002010-11-22T14:26:21.861+00:00Thanks, Paul, I too heard the comment on the radio...Thanks, Paul, I too heard the comment on the radio. Telling the public a lie does not make it a reality.<br /><br />Yours, GrantGrant Goddardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13171054298318119431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078262770562171996.post-86881643300136517702010-11-22T12:45:51.896+00:002010-11-22T12:45:51.896+00:00But the man on the Today programme this morning sa...But the man on the Today programme this morning said that 40% of people listening at that moment were listening to digital radio - including those in cars.<br />Really. He did.Paulnoreply@blogger.com