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What will radio be in 30 years?

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just_static

Will we still be able to say "Radio is everyplace" in 30 years? I always hear that term, Radio is everyplace. What I see is that HD will only work in the city. and parts out. Best thing about analog as it does not half to be "all or nothing" type.
Thoughts?
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I think in 30 years AM radio will still be here with 500KW 'super stations' - and still in analog. The US government will own about half of them for EAS use, the rest will be still be ClearChannel talkers.

FM will be like the current AM band in terms of crap programming.

There will still be one satellite music service be it XM or Sirius, but the 2nd SatRad will be owned by a broadcast group like ABC/Disney, CBS, or ClearChannel.
 
JohnnyElectron said:
I think in 30 years AM radio will still be here with 500KW 'super stations' - and still in analog. The US government will own about half of them for EAS use, the rest will be still be ClearChannel talkers.

FM will be like the current AM band in terms of crap programming.

There will still be one satellite music service be it XM or Sirius, but the 2nd SatRad will be owned by a broadcast group like ABC/Disney, CBS, or ClearChannel.
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I think your assessment is a good one. I don't see ethnic and brokered stations giving up so easily. Perhaps a lot of internet stations - you click a request, if enough people request the song, it will load up and play off of a fully automated station. No live staff at all.

I do see a future for digital - perhaps on a new band with no interference problems. Present day shortwave bands will probably be largely abandoned in favor of internet propaganda - perhaps digital will migrate there. Splendid coverage even with less than robust digital signals.
 
While reading this thread, I believe that the "next" radio will be a wireless or mobile internet device. In addition, there will be "personalized" formats, similiar to what is currently offered by Pandora Radio. The user can pick and choose online their favorite formats, even create their own playlists, maybe even choose weather, news or even talk in the mix, then listen via a mobile internet radio... It would be like having your own radio station! Then, you could even sell and promote that "personalized" station... ;)
 
I see analog radio disappearing altogether in the next 10 years in the push for digital, as in the push for CDs in the '80s by it's major conglomerates. And like the major record industry, the broadcast industry will find that digital is a genie that they cannot contain once it's out of the bottle because there will be forms of open source digital broadcasting that will be just as accessible to the average digital pirate (there already are) and playable on newer radios that will be capable of decoding them (by consumer demand.) And they will be caught in a similar quagmire.

Yeah, some of you don't believe me or have something to say like "Oh, WE'LL put a stop to THAT."

Myself and EMI wishes you good luck.....
 
Well I guess I have 10 years to enjoy free analog radio.
 
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