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Boston Radio in 2020...

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oomboppamaumau

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...will be a unrecognizable landscape from today, or 2013.

AM will be alive with Adult Standards, Easy-Listening (WJIB) and All-News and News Talk, as well as Brokered time (Espanol, Creole, Greek, etc). and colon-cleansing hour-blocks (think WRKO).

Terrestrial FM will be almost a memory, save for Public Radio (and their 5-minute-long legal ID "speeches", covering at least a dozen AM/FM signals).

A new hybrid Serius/XM - I-Pod device will deliver the music of your choice to both dashboard and micro-personal players the size of a key fob. A monthly subscription will enable you to download songs to your car, portable device or both, since these new units will be true 2-way devices. Instant song/program ratings will mean the end of paper logs, as "passive polling" will give real-time statistics by sampling listenership connections to the various channels 10 times per second.

The FM spectrum from about 92mHz-108mHz will be "re-farmed" by the FCC, and licenses issued to the Next Big Thing that needs lots of ever-shrinking spectrum.

Seeing that technology is advancing at warp speed (what an archaic term in 2020!),
what say you?

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...will be a unrecognizable landscape from today, or 2013.

AM will be alive with Adult Standards, Easy-Listening (WJIB) and All-News and News Talk, as well as Brokered time (Espanol, Creole, Greek, etc). and colon-cleansing hour-blocks (think WRKO).
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Addition: After the colon-cleansing infomercials have totally destroyed the value of some 50kw signals, such 50-kw stations' prices will be low enough for WJIB to buy a 50-kw signal, and adult-standards will be there. :)
 
This thread kinda makes you wish Mr. Peabody's wayback machine was still in operation? Makes you long for the days of lps, tape cassettes and reel-to-reel tape recorders...doesn't it? ;D

argytunes
 
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