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why is the medium relevant at all? what does radio do that a podcast cant
what does a movie theater screen do that a phone screen can’t?
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CBS Radio signs off after nearly 100 years of broadcasting
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#12With everyone hating on AM radio (HN included) and thinking the EV automakers were right for eliminating it from cars, this was the inevitable result.
why is the medium relevant at all? what does radio do that a podcast cant
They live in different layers of "medium". This is like asking "What does piping do that juice doesn't?", they're not mutually exclusive.
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what does a movie theater screen do that a phone screen can’t?
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Yes, lower sales performance means we should eliminate all movie theaters so our children never have the opportunity to experience them. Profits are the only factor.
You’re right that experiencing a movie individually on a phone screen is the ideal medium.
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#14With everyone hating on AM radio (HN included) and thinking the EV automakers were right for eliminating it from cars, this was the inevitable result.
why is the medium relevant at all? what does radio do that a podcast cant
A podcast requires thousands of pieces of fragile infrastructure between the sender and receiver.
Radio can send signals between continents with zero infrastructure between the sender and receiver.
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Yes, lower sales performance means we should eliminate all movie theaters so our children never have the opportunity to experience them. Profits are the only factor. You’re right that experiencing a movie individually on a phone screen is the ideal medium.
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Yes, lower sales performance means we should eliminate all movie theaters so our children never have the opportunity to experience them. Profits are the only factor. You’re right that experiencing a movie individually on a phone screen is the ideal medium.
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And I didn’t say “nothing.”
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#18With everyone hating on AM radio (HN included) and thinking the EV automakers were right for eliminating it from cars, this was the inevitable result.
why is the medium relevant at all? what does radio do that a podcast cant
Count how many subscriptions are between you and that podcast.
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#19With everyone hating on AM radio (HN included) and thinking the EV automakers were right for eliminating it from cars, this was the inevitable result.
why is the medium relevant at all? what does radio do that a podcast cant
Radio has an almost orthogonally inverse set of failure modes than internet streaming.
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#20With everyone hating on AM radio (HN included) and thinking the EV automakers were right for eliminating it from cars, this was the inevitable result.
why is the medium relevant at all? what does radio do that a podcast cant
AM signals have a far reach and are often used for road and emergency updates.