The HD Radio Alliance presents: Discover It! SXSW Day Party
Wednesday, March 14th
Noon – 6:00pm
Burbon Rocks (www.myspace.com/bourbonrocksaustin)
508 E. 6th Street (6th between Neches & Red River)
Open bar, Tex Mex food, lots of free HD Radios to give away. Covered patio with acoustic performances between bands. Show will be broadcast on multiple HD Radio stations the week after SXSW. Entry with badge, wristband or a good attitude :)
LINE UP
12:15 – 12:40 Simon Lynge
12:50 – 1:15 Quincy Coleman
1:25 – 1:55 Joey Degraw
2:05 – 2:35 Dexter Romweber Duo
2:45 – 3:15 The Boggs
3:25 – 3:55 The Silos
4:05 – 4:35 Eli “Paperboy” Reed
4:45 – 5:15 The Teenage Prayers
5:30 – 6:00 The Sights
Patio Acoustic Sets
1:55 – 2:05 Meiko
2:35 – 2:45 Meiko
3:15 – 3:25 Meiko
3:55 – 4:04 Simon Lynge
4:35 – 4:45 Quincy Coleman
5:15 – 5:30 Quincy Coleman
“In-Stat: Digital Radio Set to Take Off”
“In 2006, 73 percent of respondents to an In-Stat U.S. consumer survey were aware of HD Radio on some level.”
http://beradio.com/eyeoniboc/instat-digital-radio-set/
“Sirius, XM, and HD: Consumer interest reality check” (Alexaholic)
“While interest in satellite radio is diminishing, interest in HD shows no signs of a pulse.”
http://www.hear2.com/2007/02/sirius_xm_and_h.html#comments
This just confirms, the lack of interest for HD Radio, on Google Trends:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22hd+radio%22%2C+xm%2C+sirius&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
“Rethinking AM’s Future”
“Only 175 or so AM stations have even licensed AM-HD. For a number of reasons, quite a few have tried it and taken it off the air, or so the anecdotal evidence suggests. Ibiquity no longer reports in its public summaries whether a station is on the air. Making AM-HD work well as a long-term investment is seen as an expensive and risky challenge for most stations and their owners. With the bulk of successful AMs airing news, talk and sports, the improved fidelity advantage of HD and stereo seem only marginally attractive. There is the significant downside of potential new interference to some of their own AM analog listeners as well as listeners of adjacent-channel stations. And of course we still have no nighttime authority for AM-HD.”
http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.557.html
Existing RDS has the same texting functions, as HD/IBOC. For now, HD Radio/IBOC is dead.
Damnit!… there’s aren’t free shows. But i GOTTA see UGK. If there’s anyone else without a wristband/badge that wants to get into this show for free, the best bet would be to check it out from the alley behind whisky bar (it’ll be in the old fox and hound parking lot). Last year a group of about 40 people were out there for the flaming lips and were able to bum-rush the show. Who knows, maybe it won’t be too full and i can just pay money to get in.
whether or not HD radio is dead really isn’t the issue here, it’s the bands that are playing, maybe instead of trying to prove a point on how many search engines you can use to find negative information on HD radio, you could instead talk about who is playing and what you think of them. just a thought…