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What Happened to Radio?
By Christina Mulberry
Some of our elders can remember the days when radio was new. When whole families gathered around the radio for their entertainment and news of the outside world. For the next generation, they can remember hours spent listening to their radio while cruising in the car or in their rooms, enjoying their private listening to favorite music and broadcasts. These days, at first glance it appears that radio may be fighting for it's life. What has happened? As technology continues to change and advance, the number of options for getting the music entertainment you want have expanded. Certainly MP3 players have allowed us to cut out some of the noise. With them, we no longer have to listen to music we don't like, the chatter, commercials and so forth. We select the music we love, load up our player, and get just what we want. Unfortunately, these devices rarely expose us to new music, we have to discover it through friends or other avenues. Satellite radio came along some years ago. With it, commercials are nearly non-existent and distance holds less meaning. You can tune in a station in Hoboken, drive cross country, and keep listening to the same station in San Diego. There's no fading or interference. The variety is huge. Whatever genre you prefer, it's likely there for you to enjoy. You can find new favorites, enjoy talk radio, news, and more. The only unfortunate part, is that the free nature of broadcast radio doesn't exist with satellite radio. It's a monthly fee. Only $10 or so a month, but still it's not free like in the days of old. Another newcomer has been internet radio. Again it offers an almost limitless supply of music and an absence of the stuff you don't want; the commercials. There is a lot of this entertainment that's free, but there are paid services as well. Of course the speakers on a computer aren't always the best, but the good news is that internet radio players are out there that can receive and play all of this for you. Many offer a remote control and may connect wirelessly so that you can take it anywhere in the house. Even with all of these new options though, traditional broadcast radio isn't gone. Like everything it's moved a bit. Many kids now enjoy not only their MP3s on their cell phone but FM radio too. One of the most interesting radios to come along in some years is a new one to the market in 2010. It's a commercial free radio. The Myine Abbee radio is a device that can strip out commercials and talk on traditional FM radio, similar to the way a TIVO or DVR does with television. It records and then allows you to listen to the music you prefer. It even comes with a portable music player to let you take that music on the road when you leave home. The best part of it is the simplicity. You don't have to download anything or even have an internet connection to use it. There's no fee, so it's still based on the old fashioned tradition of free music entertainment. So in the end, maybe radio hasn't disappeared. It's just changed it's location. It's on satellite, the internet, your cell phone, and in a radio player that strips out some of the noise to give you pure listening enjoyment. |
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I enjoy Talk Radio. I listen to it in the car all the time. It's interesting how radio is evolving along with all the other media. Digitization certainly changed the way the world works.
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A little music and some NPR is my limit. The rest of the time I need peace and quiet. ;)
I am a peace and quiet person too, and hardly ever turn on a radio or TV, yet some people I know cannot stand the silence and must have noise in the background.
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