Few things here, the efficiency point is incorrect. The Internet is much more
efficient for broadcasters. They can use multicast and other technologies to
help manage the streams more efficiently, they get direct confirmable and
trackable access to each listener, they get a lot more demographic and
marketing info, no FCC and associated rules, no engineering transmitter
requirement, no transmitter and high power, tower, etc and so forth. I have a
good friend at Clearchannel that told me they expect someday to have no more
high powered over the air transmitters. The whole thing will be done over the
digital network.
I’m with you, I haven’t used an over the air radio in 5 years. I use
XM or Internet exclusively. I’m not interested in some fat bastard in
washington censoring what I can or can’t listen to on the airwaves. I don’t
want my music bleeped. I want my political content untouched. So a lot like
us have abandoned the public airwaves and more are making the move.
> On Dec 29, 2015, at 6:08 PM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Brent Harding <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't think the iPhones ever had one. The radio might be part of the chips
>> in there, but Apple disabled it somehow to where we can't turn it on. I
>> think this is something exclusively for Android phones, but it would require
>> headphones or a cable hooked to speakers to use for its antenna, so it
>> wouldn't be real useful when the broadcasters say one would need it most on
>> those TV ads because most of us don't carry wired headphones around.
>
> If you have reliable Internet access, however, you can listen to any of a
> large number of radio stations via streaming. A friend introduced me to the
> TuneIn radio application (http://www.tunein.com/), available on the Web as
> well as for iOS and Android devices. It works well with VoiceOver under iOS.
>
> The larger story here is that the Internet is gradually superseding other
> communications technologies. At the moment, it doesn't handle broadcast
> scenarios well: an individual audio stream for each listener is very
> inefficient. On the other hand, peoples' listening habits are changing. Unless
> it's a news program or a live event, I want it "on demand", on my schedule,
> not on a
> broadcaster's schedule.
>
> All I have at the moment is a mobile phone and an Internet connection - that's
> surprisingly sufficient (and I've been a radio listening enthusiast for
> decades).
>
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