{"id":515,"date":"2002-11-25T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2002-11-26T00:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=515"},"modified":"2002-11-25T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2002-11-26T00:22:39","slug":"scanning-your-car-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Scanning Your Car Radio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/\">The Sacramento Bee <\/a> ran a story yesterday entitled <a title=\"The Sacramento Bee -- sacbee.com -- The signs have ears\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/news\/story\/5349258p-6338265c.html\">The signs have ears<\/a> in which a company (Alaris Media Network) claims that their freeway billboards scan passing cars and determine which  stations their radios are tuned to, then tailor the ads displayed based on the information gathered. This seems <b>highly<\/b> unlikely to me &#8211; we&#8217;re talking about radio <b>receivers<\/b> here, not transmitters, what kind of signal would be detectable (especially from a radio encased inside a metal vehicle hundreds of feet from the sign and moving at high speed). Does anyone else think that this is just a scam to sell more advertising?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Bee ran a story yesterday entitled The signs have ears in which a company (Alaris Media Network) claims that their freeway billboards scan passing cars and determine which stations their radios are tuned to, then tailor the ads displayed based on the information gathered. This seems highly unlikely to me &#8211; we&#8217;re talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}