tomic60 makes an excellent and important point. Many of the best radio stations in the U.S. are public radio, meaning public funded. Most of you have likely gone through the drag of a "funding drive", but that is the public part of public radio. If you have a station you enjoy, please make regular donations. Even ten dollars a year is meaningful. I have donated what I could when I could and peaked at a famous Danish designer chair when I owned a Scandinavin furniture store. It was such a heart warming event when the chair brought more in the auction than I sold it for in my store and rightfully so.
Any thoughts or experience on the current and future of FM radio?
A bit of "thinking out loud" here. I have enjoyed and learned much from radio in my life. First AM rock and roll and then FM Jazz. My question is where do things go from here? Broadcast FM, internet music, FM stations with an internet site and anything more you can think of.
I, like most on this site, have the sound quality and as close to the original recording as possible being my pursuit. I am more on the consumer side and would have interest in hearing anyone's take on what the future may have in store. From LPs to 8-tracks and cassettes and various digital discs, redbook sacd etc, I have traveled the road most of you have and am hopeful that the future has an old term in mind "high fidelity".
I, like most on this site, have the sound quality and as close to the original recording as possible being my pursuit. I am more on the consumer side and would have interest in hearing anyone's take on what the future may have in store. From LPs to 8-tracks and cassettes and various digital discs, redbook sacd etc, I have traveled the road most of you have and am hopeful that the future has an old term in mind "high fidelity".
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If any of you have local, small college radio stations...I have found some to be a haven for good programing. Like most NPR/independent stations, they will need your support, but ten dollars a year from enough listeners will keep them on the air. I am lucky enough to have a small community college station that is a Jazz haven. |
erik_squires What you point out is the history/magic of radio...the ability to access music that you might learn from, like or dislike and, perhaps, purchase. |