{"id":163,"date":"2009-05-26T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2021-04-22T08:51:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:51:23","slug":"party-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Will ya look at these numbers! 2006 -2008 Sales up 161%! -1stQ 2009 alone up nearly 300% vs. last year. For the third year in a row we&#8217;ve been awarded title of one of the fastest growing companies in this week&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">St. Louis Business Journal<\/span> .<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>While antenna sales are exploding, the cable companies&#8217; subscriber growth is declining or flat. Whats the old expression? you cant polish a turd? Or something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2009\/2\/time-warner-cable-q4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, there are times when you just gotta feel sorry for those guys, dont you?<\/p>\n<p>No? Yeah, me neither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Will ya look at these numbers! 2006 -2008 Sales up 161%! -1stQ 2009 alone up nearly 300% vs. last year. For the third year in a row we&#8217;ve been awarded title of one of the fastest growing companies in this week&#8217;s St. Louis Business Journal . Meanwhile&#8230;. While antenna sales are exploding, the cable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antenna-update"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Party Time! - The TV Antenna Experts - Antennas Direct Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Party Time! - The TV Antenna Experts - Antennas Direct Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wow. Will ya look at these numbers! 2006 -2008 Sales up 161%! -1stQ 2009 alone up nearly 300% vs. last year. For the third year in a row we&#8217;ve been awarded title of one of the fastest growing companies in this week&#8217;s St. Louis Business Journal . Meanwhile&#8230;. While antenna sales are exploding, the cable [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The TV Antenna Experts - Antennas Direct Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antennasdirect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-26T21:05:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-22T13:51:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2018-fastest-growing.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"519\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"477\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Antennas Direct\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Antennasdirect\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Antennasdirect\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Antennas Direct\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Antennas Direct\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ba1d95441167823b1b00d87837327ce6\"},\"headline\":\"Party Time!\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-26T21:05:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-22T13:51:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":95,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/2018-fastest-growing.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Antenna Update\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/\",\"name\":\"Party Time! - The TV Antenna Experts - Antennas Direct Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/2018-fastest-growing.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-26T21:05:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-22T13:51:23+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/2018-fastest-growing.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/2018-fastest-growing.jpg\",\"width\":519,\"height\":477,\"caption\":\"Results image of STL biz fastest growing companies\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/party-time\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Party Time!\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Antennas Direct Blog - The TV Antenna Experts\",\"description\":\"Antennas Direct Blog\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Antennas Direct Blog - The TV Antenna Experts\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/ADassets-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/ADassets-logo.png\",\"width\":584,\"height\":333,\"caption\":\"Antennas Direct Blog - The TV Antenna Experts\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/antennasdirect\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/Antennasdirect\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/AntennasDirect\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/antennasdirect\\\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ba1d95441167823b1b00d87837327ce6\",\"name\":\"Antennas Direct\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/44088f126cf3532cb92d166471008d958b7202f50a057f989b19871b1f272ec9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/44088f126cf3532cb92d166471008d958b7202f50a057f989b19871b1f272ec9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/44088f126cf3532cb92d166471008d958b7202f50a057f989b19871b1f272ec9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Antennas Direct\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.antennasdirect.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/clientadmin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Party Time! - The TV Antenna Experts - Antennas Direct Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Party Time! - The TV Antenna Experts - Antennas Direct Blog","og_description":"Wow. Will ya look at these numbers! 2006 -2008 Sales up 161%! -1stQ 2009 alone up nearly 300% vs. last year. For the third year in a row we&#8217;ve been awarded title of one of the fastest growing companies in this week&#8217;s St. Louis Business Journal . Meanwhile&#8230;. While antenna sales are exploding, the cable [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/","og_site_name":"The TV Antenna Experts - Antennas Direct Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antennasdirect","article_published_time":"2009-05-26T21:05:01+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-04-22T13:51:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":519,"height":477,"url":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2018-fastest-growing.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Antennas Direct","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Antennasdirect","twitter_site":"@Antennasdirect","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Antennas Direct"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/"},"author":{"name":"Antennas Direct","@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ba1d95441167823b1b00d87837327ce6"},"headline":"Party Time!","datePublished":"2009-05-26T21:05:01+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-22T13:51:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/"},"wordCount":95,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2018-fastest-growing.jpg","articleSection":["Antenna Update"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/","url":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/","name":"Party Time! - The TV Antenna Experts - Antennas Direct Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2018-fastest-growing.jpg","datePublished":"2009-05-26T21:05:01+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-22T13:51:23+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2018-fastest-growing.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2018-fastest-growing.jpg","width":519,"height":477,"caption":"Results image of STL biz fastest growing companies"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/party-time\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Party Time!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/","name":"Antennas Direct Blog - The TV Antenna Experts","description":"Antennas Direct Blog","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Antennas Direct Blog - The TV Antenna Experts","url":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ADassets-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ADassets-logo.png","width":584,"height":333,"caption":"Antennas Direct Blog - The TV Antenna Experts"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antennasdirect","https:\/\/x.com\/Antennasdirect","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/AntennasDirect","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/antennasdirect\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ba1d95441167823b1b00d87837327ce6","name":"Antennas Direct","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/44088f126cf3532cb92d166471008d958b7202f50a057f989b19871b1f272ec9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/44088f126cf3532cb92d166471008d958b7202f50a057f989b19871b1f272ec9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/44088f126cf3532cb92d166471008d958b7202f50a057f989b19871b1f272ec9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Antennas Direct"},"url":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/author\/clientadmin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6589,"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/6589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antennasdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}