I not only don't know how much of total radio listening is on AM, I don't even know how much of my own listening is to AM, or FM for that matter. To me, radio is audio entertainment. The delivery mechanism is just so much plumbing. I start off listening to Mike and Mike on ESPN on Cable. Then I listen to part of their show on my tablet computer since there's no longer a Greenville SC affiliate. Then, as I drive toward Spartanburg, I listen to Mike and Mike on 1400 AM. As a consumer, I'm just listening to Mike and Mike. The pipe that delivers them to me is not all that important.PTBoardOp94 said:
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"This industry is wrecked..."
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A buddy of mine had a great comment about the value of radio. It only takes one of your senses to enjoy. He pointed out that his co-workers listen to over the air stations on their phones at work. His point is their phones are radios. He feels radio will never vanish. He also asked co-workers about internet only radio. Interesting comments were that most preferred a local radio station to 'stay connected' locally. I thought there's a diamond in there somewhere among those words.
bturner said:
He's right. What we see is that people listen to OTA radio streams on their phones and laptops, not portable radios.
bturner said:
"Local" one of those things like educational radio. People like it in concept, and they say there should be more news and public affairs. But when asked when's the last time they actually listened, they can't remember. The same people who talk about local radio have no problem with Rush Limbaugh. And he's nt local.
I love radio more than ever, I'm just not in love with transmitters. But then I never was, there just wasn't any choice. I still include local stations when I listen online, just not local to me. One guy I enjoy hearing is Bill Handel KFI L.A. what I like is the Internet is taking away the geographic limitations. Instead of waiting for some guy to get a syndication deal I can just listen on my phone or tablet and I do. in a sense NOW is the golden rage of radio.I mean from the listeners point of view.
I just wish I'd had an app like iHeartRadio or TuneIn back in the day.
Imagine..."Enough of KHJ for a while...lemme check out what Dan Ingram's up to this afternoon. What? Dan's on vacation? Okay, who's on WFIL?"
Imagine..."Enough of KHJ for a while...lemme check out what Dan Ingram's up to this afternoon. What? Dan's on vacation? Okay, who's on WFIL?"
Salty Dog said:
Many of us know exactly how you feel.... there was nothing romantic about a transmitter. Many people worked in the industry who have never seen a transmitter. They worked at the studio in town. Some had no idea where the transmitter was.
But it was the transmitter.... or better stated, the NEED for a transmitter that shaped and formed radio. Let me offer a theory. If starting in say 1937 or even 1945 it had been possible and practical for people to set up a studio at home and use phone lines to distribute some audio content... Things we take for granted would never have been wanted or needed.
What guy (or gal) squirting out audio from a home location would have ever developed newscasts? Without all the squirming to pay the bills, would the people who developed the idea of audio newscasts have gone to the trouble?
We live in a county where some of my wife's ancestors lived seven generations ago. So we live among "distant relatives" that we have not yet identified and they haven't identified us. And when you trace your family tree and you find a marraige 6 generations back that you have to ask... "How did that ever come about?" and you ask: "Who would I be if they hadn't met and if the family had not moved to....." At that point the answer to the question is: "It's not WHO you would be... you WOULDN'T be!"
The recording industry and the broadcasting industry were husband and bride meant for each other at the time. The arrival of the Xerox machine (and other brands of copiers) complete changed "the industry that brings you audio content." Ditto for the computer. Ditto for the satellite. And the transistor/solid state family.
If we weren't able to jog down the lane with our mp3 player the size of a deck of cards strapped to our arm... would there be the technology to enable the entire on-line audio industry that is today pouring salt onto the root system of the big oak tree we call The Radio Station?
"It's not WHO you would be... you WOULDN'T be!"
Perhaps not, but there would be someone else in my place. I wouldn't care because there wouldn't BE a me to care.
And if current reality with regard to electronics didn't exist, something else would exist. We wouldn't feel like
we missed anything because we wouldn't know what we missed.
Which makes me wonder what cool electronic reality we would be enjoying today if government standards concerning
spectrum, beginning in 1912, had been done differently. Maybe we would have had over the air Internet decades ago.
We'll never know, just as we'll never know what current reality would exist if my grandfather hadn't stowed away on
a boat to the U.S. and married my grandmother.
Perhaps not, but there would be someone else in my place. I wouldn't care because there wouldn't BE a me to care.
And if current reality with regard to electronics didn't exist, something else would exist. We wouldn't feel like
we missed anything because we wouldn't know what we missed.
Which makes me wonder what cool electronic reality we would be enjoying today if government standards concerning
spectrum, beginning in 1912, had been done differently. Maybe we would have had over the air Internet decades ago.
We'll never know, just as we'll never know what current reality would exist if my grandfather hadn't stowed away on
a boat to the U.S. and married my grandmother.
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