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- gyroscopic, on 07/15/2008, -6/+81Yes, after four days on sale, the iPhone is killing terrestrial radio. That's all it took.
- WiseWeasel, on 07/15/2008, -1/+65I think terrestrial radio is doing a fine job of killing *itself* with its ***** music selection and extremely annoying advertising... iPhone has approximately zero to do with it except that it also acts as an iPod, so it can be used in the car to play some music you actually want to listen to... If it wasn't that, it'd be some other MP3 player.
- umbrellainabin, on 07/15/2008, -9/+44seriously who listens to the radio anyway
- l800LEMMINGS, on 07/15/2008, -2/+36terrestrial radio is killing terrestrial radio
- MavRevMatt, on 07/15/2008, -3/+35It's not the iPhone killing radio, it's the internet as a whole, new media, and means of playing said media. Buried for iPhone spam that isn't even reasonable.
- scooterbaga, on 07/15/2008, -2/+26The only thing worthwhile is NPR... which can simply be downloaded if you don't mind being a little behind.
I realized radio was utter crap in the late 90's... That first 20GB iPod was the final nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned. These days broadcast radio is no more than an annoyance that hinders my iTrip.
...Then again, say any of the above to the average teenager and they'll think you're crazy. - inactive, on 07/15/2008, -2/+17Keep in mind that Internet broadcasters are already paying the same licensing fees that terrestrial broadcasters pay, as well as additional fees that terrestrial broadcasters don’t pay.
- greywolfexcel, on 07/15/2008, -2/+14There is a huge amount of people that listen to the radio. It will never, ever go away, not when there is even the smallest consumer base that will listen to it. Thank goodness for capitalism. :)
- interad, on 07/15/2008, -1/+9lame content that is the same city-to-city is killing terrestrial radio
- Drizzit, on 07/16/2008, -2/+10we'll 12 minutes of commercials for 2 minutes of music probably did it more harm than anything else.
- Proctor, on 07/16/2008, -1/+9It's because all radio stations play about 3 ***** pop songs in a row for about 8 months at a time.
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -4/+12i dont listen to terrestrial radio, i listen to EXTRA terrestrial radio!! YEAH SON! (puts on headphones and listens to static) WOOOOOO!! YEAAH ROCK ON
- ferrariman60, on 07/16/2008, -1/+9No, the iphone isn't killing radio. That is very recent. MP3 players and downloadable songs in general are killing the radio. They play too many commercials, have stupid DJs that I don't want to listen to before work (or at all, but especially not before work), and are generally just lame in their music selection. The only stations I listen to are the 2 NPR stations in my area. And the AM station for traffic. Otherwise, it's useless to me. I prefer to listen to my music when I want to listen to it.
- mdude85, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7People have been suggesting that radio will be obsolete for the past 50 years. But surprisingly, radio is one of the few media technologies that has stood the test of time better than many emerging technologies. Radio is ubiquitously available, free to consume, technologically agnostic, and it is widely distributed across geographic and demographic regions. Companies like Clear Channel put a face on radio, but they are a relatively small portion of the overall market of both radio producers and radio consumers.
I seriously LOLed when the author said that the iPhone now being RSS-compliant is an example of it's technological agnosticism. Is this guy delusional? The iPhone is so cutting edge that it is completely the opposite of technologically agnostic. Radio is completely technologically agnostic -- you can listen to radio on your state-of-the-art $18,000 home theatre system or in the analog tuner of your 1957 Corvette. - vukeidorian, on 07/16/2008, -1/+7radio is killing radio
- MavRevMatt, on 07/15/2008, -0/+6Radio's been around forever and hasn't gone away after any tech has been introduced. It's gonna take a little more to kill radio, and television will take even longer. Sure, people younger than 40 or so don't listen to radio or watch television much or at all and get it from the internet instead, everyone else, and many people who are younger than 40 but not about new media or "my media" at all, still use both because they don't know any different or don't want to change.
- javaroast, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6Just when I thought the iPhone stories couldn't get any crazier this crazy article shows up. The US is a country with limited broadband penetration and cell coverage that is spottier than the logic used to write this so called article. Not to mention radio's important role in breaking local events. It's very premature to be talking about the death of terrestrial radio
- ouzome, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5This is silly, radio will last for a long time. It may be on demand radio at some point, but it will still be radio - digital or not.
- l1wulf, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6As much as I like Mashable, I'm sorry Rizzn, but your article title is just there to get attention. Your article goes on to point out what it will take and then mentions how the iPhone doesn't meet these needs.
What I see...
"Prices must be feasible ... Attention: AT&T and Rogers - $100 a month won’t cut it."
"Devices must be ubiquitous... iPhones (and the comparable devices from other manufacturers) are in the minority."
"Service must be net neutral..."
"Devices must be technology agnostic... biggest deal-breaker out there was that each OS had their preference on what sort of streaming media it would play... no producer can function on only a best case scenario 20% of a potential audience"
How I take this...
Everything written in this article applies to any number of portable devices, but Apple iPhone is the latest and is a hot ticket. How can you go wrong by using it in the title of an article?
Nice article by the way, I just don't see why you went with that specific title. Incidentally, I stopped listening to terrestrial radio years ago. In fact, my car doesn't even have stations programmed to the buttons. My ex-girlfriend was a die hard radio user herself until she got turned on to XM. I can't even think of a single person who still listens to terrestrial radio--even my mom has converted to satellite radio. - Seidoger, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6I wake up to radio every morning
- AnalogAssassin, on 07/16/2008, -2/+7Clear Channel and Entercom are killing radio.
- Laminarcissus, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6Or just every other phone that was playing radio before the iPhone was even out.
This is seriously insufferable, but PR agencies don't care about that, they just want to game Digg to keep the huge retainers Apple is paying them. - MrTito, on 07/16/2008, -4/+8Yeah, that's it. Terrestrial radio has been in decline for years. MP3 players, internet radio, and satellite radio have been taking chunks out of its ass for a while now. Consolidation of the companies in the media markets hasn't done it any favors, either.
But yeah, it's all because of the godPhone. ***** off with this spam. - MavRevMatt, on 07/15/2008, -1/+5No, I don't think so. As a teenager I can say probably 80% of people I know don't listen to radio anymore. Either we plug in an MP3 player to our car, stereo, or burn stuff to CD's to listen to it. It's easier, it's what we want when we want it, and there's no advertising.
Of course on the NPR subject probably 1% of teenagers listen to it. I subscribe to one of NPR's podcasts but I don't listen on the radio. - earnjam, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4I used Pandora on my iPhone in the car today to and from work (~30-40minutes). There was a few second delay between tracks while it buffered, but really not too bad. I vastly prefer that to radio commercials or a monthly fee for satellite. (oh, and I'm over EDGE...still have the original phone)
- earnjam, on 07/15/2008, -0/+4Over the air television is going away.
- earnjam, on 07/15/2008, -1/+5At this point zero to do with it, but as more people get them and more smartphones catch up with apps like Pandora and Last.fm, I think we'll see it start to have an effect.
- reconflux, on 07/16/2008, -5/+9I think it has to do more with MP3 players than the iPhone. The IPODS are killing radio.
- p51d007, on 07/16/2008, -2/+6I stopped listening to "over the air" radio around 5 years ago when I got a sat radio. Why did I quit listening?
Easy....TOO MANY COMMERCIALS, and PLAYING THE SAME 20 SONGS OVER & OVER.
They yack and yack on songs with an intro part, yack before it is over, but, the worst are those ANNOYING
commercials.
The iphone/ipod didn't kill commercial radio, the commercials did. - e2superman, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5Holy *****! Is there anything the iPhone can't do?! This is awesome. Rock on my shiny new magic god toy.
/sarcasm - Laminarcissus, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4Yes, and it's the PR agency that wrote the headline.
That's the formula -- take any article on any subject and relate it in the headline (because that's the only thing you know everyone will read) to your brand, and then use your dummy accounts to get it promoted to the front page. - master_of_fm, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3i love listening to Adam Carolla in the morning and once they did away with him I had to resort to streaming him over the internet on my phone. but that actually turned out to be a good thing because reception was always spotty, but you can definitely tell when you cross between cells as there is a half second buffer during the hand off.
- Theod48, on 07/16/2008, -4/+7terrestrial radio died a long time ago
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -3/+6"Not only is radio in mortal danger from all sides, but so is TV."
They're right...I just got an Iphone and plan on taking back my 50" lcd tv tomorrow. Also my iphone has internet so I don't really need my laptop anymore. - FyreDragon17, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4Sliced bread is king! Who would ever eat non-sliced bread ever again??!!
- trollick, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3iPhone is killing puppies and kittens.
- supermanred, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4TV as we know it IS dying. That's why your 50" lcd tv has monitor inputs on it. All new TVs do. To accomodate the future which is PC connectivity, Netflix, AppleTV etc.
- flieger, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3My car deck plays mp3 files from a USB stick so I have at least 8GB of stuff available at any time.
But I still listen to the radio. You might be exposed to good music you've never heard before. - Drewboy64, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4I love Sirius : )
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3MrBabySpam strikes again.
- kenvsryu, on 07/16/2008, -7/+10Let sirius and xm merge!!!
- Dohko_Xar, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4Sensational *****... did the internet kill radio back 10 - 15 years ago? No.
- PopcornDave, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4Hardly. AM talk radio is going to have an older audience. What remains to be seen is that as the MP3 player generation gets older if they're going to flock to talk radio or not. If they don't then that's going to be close to the final nail in the coffin of terrestrial radio.
- WiseWeasel, on 07/15/2008, -1/+4I have a hard enough time not dropping calls on my drive to work; I don't think I could stand to have my music cutting in and out as EDGE (forget 3G) access is intermittently available... Until cell phone data network coverage gets *A LOT* better, satellite and FM have little to worry about in this regard. Until then, the MP3 playing functionality is a much larger threat to their business models, as it is accompanied by a dramatic change in music finding and listening behavior. I won't be holding my breath until I can get personalized music streams that will play seamlessly through the entire duration of my commute.
- lerker, on 07/16/2008, -2/+5"For years I’ve been saying that the days of radio are numbered." And, apparently, for years he's been wrong.
- PopcornDave, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Fantastic. More spectrum for the government to sell to the highest bidder and dictate how we use the public airwaves.
- dondara, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3Damn straight. ***** clear channel. Dozens of ***** stations playing the same *****.
- djalbino, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2I agree that most terrestrial radio sucks, but I really enjoy community and college radio. I listen to those stations all of the time.
- SteveSgt, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2If you look at a cell-phone carrier coverage map of California, Nevada, or Utah, (areas I travel frequently) you’ll find large patches of land, hundreds of square miles apiece, where there isn’t cell phone coverage. And yet, I can always tune in a radio station in these areas.
It’s urban bigotry to say we don’t need radio broadcast towers anymore. A digital cell phone tower only covers about a 3 mile radius, usually much less. The old analog cell system, which is being dismantled, covered around a 15 mile radius. Even a medium-power FM station can cover a 50 mile radius in the flatlands, and a couple of hundred mile radius (in some directions) in mountainous areas. You’d need to deploy 275 digital cell towers to cover the area of one medium-powered FM station. Considering a cell site is an order of magnitude more expensive to deploy than an FM transmitter, I don’t see the majority of the land area of the U.S. being covered by cell service any time soon, which leaves a monopoly market for radio in those places (especially in portable and mobile applications).
Though tack shops and wagon makers are not a mainstream industry, there’s still a market for buggy whips. Radio did not totally displace newspapers. Television never totally displaced radio, nor movie theaters. The Internet will change the nature of the television business, but I don’t predict television’s (or radio’s) complete demise. I do predict a drastic change in the popularity and business models of scheduled media. - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -2/+4You couldn't bring your computer and plug into your car and drive to work, or put your computer in your pocket while you walk your dog, and listen to Internet radio.
Get it now?
Plus you get to do all that for a phone that cost 200 bucks, and a service plan of about 100 bucks a month.
Welcome to the future. -
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