> You still need linear radio for things like emergencies. If radio is going to be for emergencies, make sure it's guaranteed to work in emergencies: - Mandat

> You still need linear radio for things like emergencies. If radio is going to be for emergencies, make sure it's guaranteed to work in emergencies: - Mandate local control. No more networks piping music in over a network line. Network lines go dead, and then where is your radio station? More to the point, if there's no one in the booth, there's no way to get someone to tell everyone else there's an emergency. This has already happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_train_derailment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_train_derailment - Mandate that people be in the radio booth 24/7. No more late-night autopilot, and certainly no sign-off. Have cots or similar if the weather starts to get bad, so multiple shifts can stay at the station. (Hospitals already do this.) - Mandate that radio stations have their own generators. Multiple redundancy. No excuses. - Create a way to get information to radio stations even if all other information transmission infrastructure is down. Because that is what we're talking about, right? Radio as an emergency last-ditch information transmission medium? Satellite communications can get jammed by bad winds blowing Earth stations around, point-to-point microwave is killed by serious snowfall, and this isn't even considering man-made emergencies. So, unless you do that, you're just playing at being an emergency service. That represents the bare minimum to be taken seriously.