[BC] End of radio???

[Robert Meuser]

I have always believed most things in society are evolutionary and often 
follow the path of unintended consequences. This morning I turned on 
K-ROCk to listen to Howard's last show. I dont usually listen to the 
show, but today I switched off the Satellite radio feed, found the FM 
button and actually found the station (it was not one of my pre-sets).

I quickly discovered that the whole show was live on Yahoo. Now my 
experience with streaming goes back over 10 years to the days when one 
could charge a few thousand dollars to hook up an ISDN codec.  Over that 
time, I have not been a big end user of streaming. I always thought is 
was stupid to sit in front of a computer to watch or listen to something 
when a radio or TV was more flexible. Also for a long time bandwidth was 
as issue.

So this morning when I heard Howard mention Yahoo, I went to the site. I 
should point out my internet enviroment had changed over the years, so 
rather than being tethered to a computer, my wireless laptop was there 
in the living room on a table in front of the TV. Once opn the yahoo 
site, I discovered the feed was pre-delay and un-edited. I switched my 
radio back to the Satellite input and turned it off. Yahoo did a better 
job of delivering the goods.

R