"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"A Browne" wrote in message
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Comparing the early days of FM to now, has a nice ring, but the media
landscape has changed dramatically since then.
Within the next 10 years, wireless internet networks like 4G, Wimax,
and wifi will be everyplace and as common as cell phones are today.


Thats great. Radio will use that technology too.

The days of someone else choosing your play
list are dying.

That is if you see the role of radio to only "pick a playlist".

Radio serves a much larger role.

Pray tell, what is that larger role?

Radio, while indeed cutting back, adds the human element. Local
information, local personalities, local commercials on where to buy "back to
school" clothes, local concert information, local weather, traffic, news and
discussion of local issues. local candidates and Election information.

These are all things that one does not get from an Ipod or when burning your
own CD's.

Almost no stations carry any form of local, or even network, news anymore.

This is wrong. Almost ALL station carry some form of local news...even if
it is limited.

As has been said before, radio now is basically a jukebox with
commercials, and someone else is picking the records in the jukebox.

Sorry, that's wrong again.

Worse still, so many stations are just satellites of a single studio that
feeds programming to various stations

Ummmm...where is it you live that this is the only radio you have?

Frostbite Falls, Minnesota?