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So was Morse code
Not comparable but okay... so were smoke signals
Indeed. They didn't have to go away. We should mandate mobile phones to have smoke signal decoders.
It's a shame what's happened to radio
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Re: It's a shame what's happened to radio
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The 3.5mm jack is the other missing piece required for that FM receiver to work - and that's not coming back any time soon.
My Moto X4's FM radio worked well enough without the headphones plugged in, but you needed really good reception.
Right, you'd need a really strong signal.
Also, I believe that is exactly the reason why FM tuners are being phased out.
Streaming services will nowadays give you uninterrupted playback pretty much anywhere, even in places like large buildings or subway tunnels, where radio coverage is nonexistent. Basically it all boils down to the fact that cell network coverage is much better today.
Re: It's a shame what's happened to radio
#283There was a great college radio in my city growing up, the commercial shit though; I don't want to hear the same songs everyday.
The problem is the people who advertisers want to target want to hear the same songs every day. I wouldn't be surprised if people like you want me who want more variety are a majority - but we don't spend money on things advertisers want us to buy by enough to be worth advertising to us.
Well since my provincial government opened the floodgates to online gambling this month... Yeah, I definitely don't spend money on those advertisers. It's pretty crazy just how many ad spots they've gobbled up.
Re: It's a shame what's happened to radio
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The problem is the people who advertisers want to target want to hear the same songs every day. I wouldn't be surprised if people like you want me who want more variety are a majority - but we don't spend money on things advertisers want us to buy by enough to be worth advertising to us.
If people who want more variety are the majority, I suspect the problem is just that those people don't listen to radio anyway. Like, think about how many stations are Christmas format, and how "Christmas music" is a very regimented set of about 20-40 songs from the 1950s. To paraphrase XKCD[0], radio embarks on a massive project to carefully recreate the Baby Boomers' childhoods every December[1]. Probably because t…
Heh, I haven't seen that xkcd before now, that sure reinforces my sympathy towards service workers.
Re: It's a shame what's happened to radio
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It absolutely does - allegedly there’s 6 million listeners to the biggest breakfast radio show in the UK and 4 million to the second biggest. That’s 10 million in a country of about 55 million adults.
Unfortunately, they broadcast on DAB so there’s a strong chance that two car radios next to each other are buffering differently and out of sync.
It’s interesting that the DAB rollout completely failed in Ireland and we are back to fully analog FM