Give Me Some Skin
Philly's new "Skin Radio" sees a future for music on AM radio.
Tom Kelly (Marconi Broadcasting) told Inside Radio "in the research, we found that listeners in their 20s don't have a negative attitude about AM radio" -- not the way some baby boomers do.
Kelly (who just paid $5 million for 1340 WHAT) likes the future for music on digital AM. And ZombieRadio thinks he's right. With digital broadcast of AM stations on HD Radio (one of the few real benefits of HD Radio at all) and the sure-to-kill-HD WiFi Radios combined with city-wide Wi-Max signals, matching digital streams with a terrestrial AM radio has most-likely never been more lucrative.
Skin Radio is streaming (at SkinRadio.com).Labels: AM, HD Radio, Trendwatch
2 Comments:
HD Radio/IBOC causes adjacent-channel interference and has only 60% the coverage of analog. The HD channels are only low-bitrate streams of the same repetitive material. HD radios require dipole and loop antennas, and reception is still problematic. Consumers are not interested in this joke:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22hd+radio%22%2C+%22internet+radio%22%2C+xm%2C+sirius%2C+podcast&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
I'm not a big fan of HD Radio either, but I think some of the issues and requirements to which you're speaking are eliminated with using an actual HD Radio as your listening device (which opens up a whole OTHER can of worms with why HD sucks.)
Thanks for stopping by the blog and taking the time to post a comment!
~ROSS
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