It's hard not to feel the desperation associated with the ones that promote digital radio. This does not bode well with them. Image Steve Jobs with the same mentality. The ship is listing badly boys. Maybe it's time to get off.

Good luck with that.

Help me out here - "competitive" for what? Who is it competing with?

Transmitting traffic information and other data on digital radio is of little value to consumers. Believing that this recent gimmicky ploy will save digital radio is foolish - along with all the other failed attempts to fire-up consumers. On another note, let's hope this recent NPR blunder (the firing of Juan Williams for telling the truth) will disclose NPR for what it is - a hopelessly bias organization. Both side of the isle are calling for heads to roll and hopefully this will slow the flow of $$$ to NPR. Listenership to NPR is at an all-time low with no end in sight and for good reason. It's time to stop the funds which includes taxpayer $$$ for worthless NPR digital transmitter upgrades.

Radio deserves to crash and burn. That process started when Government determined that corporate profits were more important then serving local communities. When radio becomes just one more mundane digital service is that when they'll cry they've won? No, that's when we've all lost. Radio's power isn't in the mode it get to you by - it's in what it says. Yeah, when radio becomes one more lame digital service there will be few that use it. All those tacky things that iBiquity and their proponents want for radio are done elsewhere. Nothing new here. If you think radio is in trouble now, just wait till it becomes just one more digital service.