[BC] The future of broadcasting...

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:46 PM 9/1/2006, nakayle at gmail.com wrote: -------

>There is already a website called http://pandora.com that lets you listen to
>music tailored just to your personal taste all day long with no commercials
>or interruptions of any kind- and it's all for free.  Unlike conventional
>radio- each person receives an individual stream of just the kind of music
>you like.  You "train" it by telling it what songs you like and don't like
>as it plays them until it learned what your tastes are.  And if you really
>like a song they play you can click a button to permanently download it for
>99?.  (I assume this is how they make their money).  Now it's hard to see
>how conventional radio can compete with something like this.

Really? How well does it perform in cars? If I 
want to listen while jogging how do I do it? If I 
don't want to be completely cut off from 
emergency information in a variety of locations 
during dangerous weather conditions, does it provide news?

People generally use a variety of devices and 
services. It's naive to assume, as every decade 
has when new technology comes around, that radio 
is dead. There's still an awful lot of money 
being made in terrestrial radio Far more than in any service except Television.

The prediction of radio's death is greatly exaggerated.

Rich

Rich Wood
Rich Wood Multimedia
Phone: 413-454-3258