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What an out of touch take. “Me, being successful in my 40s and living in a city with 2 teslas don’t listen to AM or FM radio, so those technologies are dead an
by dartos 2y ago
What an out of touch take.
“Me, being successful in my 40s and living in a city with 2 teslas don’t listen to AM or FM radio, so those technologies are dead and should be abandoned”
- michaelt 2y agoWell, there's also the data point that demand is so low the AM radio industry has literally gone to congress and asked to make receivers mandatory.
- dartos 2y agoConsumer demand in populated areas sure, but out in the boonies digital radio doesn’t work as well. Not being popular isn’t a reason to declare something as dead or useless. Tho none of that is a reason to force auto makers to include AM radio.
- stickfigure 2y ago> Not being popular isn’t a reason to declare something as dead or useless. Spectrum is a finite, shared resource. Especially these lower frequency bands.
- dartos 2y agoAnd AM has use as an emergency utility and FM is more accessible than digital radio.
- rblatz 2y agoWhy do you keep jumping from AM to digital radio? What does that even mean, are you talking about XM? You do know FM exists and is analog, right?
- dartos 2y agoDigital radio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_radio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_radio The commenter with the teslas was saying that AM is dead and FM is nearly dead.
- gosub100 2y agoLook at the numbers. Fewer people listen to the crappy DJs, payola music, annoying commercials, or hate-wing talk radio. Radio is dying.
- xpe 2y agoThere is a difference between "declining" and "dying". The former is descriptive. The latter is a prediction. There is little debate that radio is declining. To me, it more interesting how it is changing: the audience, the programming, the impact. Whether (and when) radio might completely "die" is a prediction that requires some kind of clarification about the details.
- rblatz 2y ago12 years ago I wasn’t nearly as successful, but I did have Bluetooth in my car. Even in my old Hyundai and my wife’s Honda we never used the tuners.