tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078262770562171996.post8864634652493493145..comments2023-07-08T13:44:21.625+01:00Comments on Grant Goddard : radio blog: DAB: the medium of consumer choice?Grant Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13171054298318119431noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078262770562171996.post-11947633524448573682009-02-12T12:29:00.000+00:002009-02-12T12:29:00.000+00:00Keep at it, Grant - call their bluff! The parallel...Keep at it, Grant - call their bluff! The parallels to the US HD Radio farce are comical. The CEO of iBiquity, sent Bob Savage, CEO WYSL 1020 AM Rochester, NY a harrassing email about Savage's outspoken comments against AM-HD. Imagine that - the CEO of a corporation acting like a desperate little child, and has the time for such inappropriate behavior.<BR/><BR/>The lies are many with digital radio, as with HD Radio the media publishes one misleading article after another. In due time, the liers forget which lies they have told, and eventually the schemes will implode. The HD Radio folks, as with UK DAB, have lied about the number of units sold, of course:<BR/><BR/>"HD Radio spinners claim a breakthrough year: Pulling a fast one"<BR/><BR/>"According to a press release from the Alliance 330,000 HD receivers were sold last year. This is a 725 per cent increase from the 40,000 sets purchased a year earlier and therefore 2007 was a 'breakthrough year' for the technology. In 2008 they will sell a million of the things."<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/4zgkaw<BR/><BR/>BTW - my blog sits on Google's Home Page for searches on "HD Radio", and with links to your site in my blog, I am getting quite a few hits from the UK, with related searches containing "DAB" (some are direct links, now).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078262770562171996.post-65795858472321767822009-02-12T11:42:00.000+00:002009-02-12T11:42:00.000+00:00The above comments were reportedly submitted by To...The above comments were reportedly submitted by Tony Moretta, Chief Executive of the Digital Radio Development Bureau [DRDB], the trade body whose “task is to ensure digital radio’s wide accessibility and swift adoption in the UK with consistent and effective marketing”. Its stakeholders are Arqiva, Bauer Radio, the BBC, Digital One, Global Radio, Guardian Media Group, UBC and UTV.<BR/><BR/>Evidently, the DRDB has chosen to respond to a straightforward numerical analysis of the UK radio market, supported by research, numbers and graphs, not by rebutting the accuracy of the cited data, but by accusing its author of participating in a “vendetta against DAB”. If I were a DRDB stakeholder, I might want to ask Tony at the next Board meeting how such a personal attack in the online space on a professional media analyst with 30 years’ industry experience is consistent with the DRDB mission statement.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, if the detailed breakdown of sales data supplied to the DRDB by GfK, according to Tony, “show that DAB receivers outsold analogue only sets last year”, why is a time series of those specific numbers not available from the DRDB web site? As my blog post clearly demonstrated, almost all ‘DAB receivers’ on sale now incorporate the FM platform. What Tony is talking about are mostly ‘DAB + FM’ receivers………. or should that be ‘FM + DAB’ receivers?Grant Goddardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13171054298318119431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078262770562171996.post-27838265976924784012009-02-11T19:49:00.000+00:002009-02-11T19:49:00.000+00:00Tut, tut, tut, Grant. Yet again deliberately misr...Tut, tut, tut, Grant. Yet again deliberately misrepresenting the facts to further your apparent vendetta against DAB.<BR/><BR/>You know very well that 'dedicated analogue radio sets' refers to devices that consumers buy primarily as a radio, i.e. a Hi-Fi tuner, a portable radio or a personal radio.<BR/><BR/>Taking these three sectors Gfk figures show that DAB receivers outsold analogue only sets last year.<BR/><BR/>Yes, there are a lot of devices out there that are still sold with analogue radio tuners but radio is just an add-on and therefore hardly used (e.g. a CD <BR/>'ghettoblaster'). In fact recent Ofcom research shows that although there may be north of 150 million radio capable devices in the UK (excluding cars) only just over 40 million are actually used regularly, i.e. at least once a week. Of these DAB sets already account for around 9 million.<BR/><BR/>I don't deny there is a long way still to go to increase listening on DAB, but the Digital Britain report is correct - when people go out to buy a new radio the majority of them buy a DAB one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com