Absolutely not!
I could barely afford the old price, so the new one is completely out of the question.
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Can "music radio" as we currently know it survive profitably in a streaming world?
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I could barely afford the old price, so the new one is completely out of the question.
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Kool aid is making a comeback with old an some new flavors. A couple of the flavors taste really good with ice and vodka.
I'll have to look into that.
I like diet sodas (7Up, Sprite, etc.) but it's getting to the point where I can't afford it much of it anymore.
I found a cheapish ($2.49/2L bottle) source, so I'm OK for now.
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Consider also this: new car dealers were a major advertiser, right? I just sat down and jotted a list of every dealership owner within 30 miles back in, say, 1985. So I'm not counting the guy who owned two or more dealers, but separate companies. 19 companies on that list. Today? 4. Three towns no longer have any dealers; everything else has consolidated.
But the simple fact is that few listeners will bother to do any of that. So that means that for the overwhelming majority of the audience, geofencing will serve its purpose.
Consider this comparison -- I have an old FM tuner that has three selectable IF bandwidths (wide, narrow, ultranarrow) and high sensitivity. Back when I bought it, the FM band was less congested than it is now and this tuner allowed me to receive out-of-town stations that most people would not be able to receive. If everyone had bought and used tuners like that, it could have seriously disrupted the local radio business. But few people bothered, so it was of little consequence.
Your VPN to bypass geofencing is the modern equivalent of my FM tuner with three selectable IF bandwidths.
Really says something about value. There are places in the world where VPNs are common just to get information. Places where even having a free tuning radio will get you arrested. Here there is no demand so people don't bother to learn.
But it makes sense -- here in the United States we do have free access to information, so there's never been much of a motivation for people to learn how to circumvent government controls.
My mom grew up in Nazi Germany, and she's recounted stories of how she strung a wire antenna in the kitchen of their apartment in order to receive broadcasts from the BBC and VOA. She was trying to integrate the information from those broadcasts with the domestic German broadcasts in order to figure out what troops were where. When you're a teenage girl in a country that's losing a war, there's a lot riding on knowing whether the Russians or the Americans were going to be "liberating" your small town.
Needless to say, that was highly illegal and could have gotten her family into a lot of trouble if it had been caught. Her mom (my grandmother) was very nervous about that illegal wire antenna.
My birth mother was a young girl in Latvia; her parents had some tough choices to make. The Nazis might have looked like Teddy Bears compared to the Russians who were moving in.