The Red Brick Times

Thought you might like this Garrison Keillor essay in The Nation titled Confessions of a Listener. Here's an excerpt:

"After the iPod takes half the radio audience and satellite radio subtracts half of the remainder and Internet radio gets a third of the rest and Clear Channel has to start cutting its losses and selling off frequencies, good-neighbor radio will come back. People do enjoy being spoken to by other people who are alive and who live within a few miles of you."

Posted 7:08 AM by whatley (3) comments

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P.S. On that same note here's a book I read a year or so ago and really enjoyed: 40 Watts from Nowhere: A Journey Into Pirate Radio. It's a quick and fun read.

# posted by  whatley : May 06, 2005 7:32 AM
 
Sony just released a lap top with wireless inernet cell-connect capability built in. My brother's Blackberry does the same but has a stupid numeric keypad for text entry. Clumsy and slow. No stylus for Palm-type touch or scribble entry. Somwhere in between surely lies the answer. So we will be able to use these to eliminate broadcast radio, TV, printed encyclopedias, dictionaries, magazines, newspapers, audio CDs, DVDs, and cassette tapes. What is next to go? Vinyl LPs? 8-Tracks? Where will it all end?

# posted by  Andy : May 13, 2005 9:26 AM
 
BTW - The auto industry has all but eliminated cassette tape players for their in-dash radios. The 2006 in-dash versions include 6-disc CD changers, MP3 disk compatibility, and satellite radio capability with an optional plug-in module and antenna.

# posted by  Andy : May 13, 2005 9:31 AM
 
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