Sunday, June 17, 2007

The death of radio

It's becoming clear that analog (and HD radio, for that matter) radio is dead.

Who listens to FM anymore? Not many. Most people only listen in their cars, and even that's being replaced by ipods, Sat. radio and MP3 CD's.

At home, if you have internet, you have the richest music listening imaginable. From Pandora to LastFM to tens of thousands of streaming radio stations.

So.. commercial radio, NPR, LPFM or even pirate radio.. who cares? Or more accurately, who's listening to anything non digital? No one I think.

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