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An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close

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Re: An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close

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Post by internetter »

> The inexorable rise of podcasts, and the expansion into audio journalism by formerly print-only news outlets like The New York Times, has chipped away at traditional radio’s presence in public life.

Reads almost like the NYT is bragging about itself contributing to the shutdown?

Re: An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close

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Post by throwaway290 »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #7
whatever1 wrote: post #2

They better start dancing and distill their news into 10” video chunks. This is how we consume news today.

Maybe split screen viewing where 1/2 is an ai cat pineapple hybrid with large anime eyes, and the other half is an AI instagram baddie that is tugging on her thong while telling me about Iran?

the thong baddie is a no go because your audience has people of different genders as well as kids in a country with majority of extreme religious people

replace it with realtime betting by the viewers (on news or on some game video)

and cat hybrid can be telling the news.

Re: An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close

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Post by throwaway290 »

internetter wrote: post #13

> The inexorable rise of podcasts, and the expansion into audio journalism by formerly print-only news outlets like The New York Times, has chipped away at traditional radio’s presence in public life. Reads almost like the NYT is bragging about itself contributing to the shutdown?

> The inexorable rise of podcasts, and the expansion into audio journalism by formerly print-only news outlets like The New York Times, has chipped away at traditional radio’s presence in public life.

they could like a lot of other radios start broadcasting on the web and publish programs on podcasts, earning nice moeny.

Re: An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close

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simpaticoder wrote: post #5
jmclnx wrote: post #3

Nothing like saving couch change to remove a service some people relied upon. I tend to think this will harm rural areas instead of urban areas. This is not the first time a service like this was ended. I believe these "low tech" services will be missed at some point. I remember one service, a weather service that many private fishermen used was ended last year I think. Now they go without or they may need to subscri…

There is a larger pattern here worth noting: old tech atrophies in the presence of new tech. For example, stores that stop taking cash. Books that stop publishing on paper. Music that has no physical media distribution. The problem is that the conditions of the new tech are almost always far more fragile and centralized (!) than the old tech. Broadcast radio and TV is (and newspaper, and telephone lines) are, ironica…

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Re: An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close

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Post by h2zizzle »

jmclnx wrote: post #3

Nothing like saving couch change to remove a service some people relied upon. I tend to think this will harm rural areas instead of urban areas. This is not the first time a service like this was ended. I believe these "low tech" services will be missed at some point. I remember one service, a weather service that many private fishermen used was ended last year I think. Now they go without or they may need to subscri…

Yeah, that's pretty much The Plan.
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