Okay, so we all bought new TV’s to get the new broadcast HD signals.
Now we’ll all have to buy new radios?....................
Okay, color me surprised, AM not gone. Leaves the range heating ....
Feed her some hungry reggae she’ll love you twice
The girls don’t seem to care tonight
As long as the mood is right
FM - no static at all
Modern day society is too expensive for the average human to afford.
And will these free radios come with microphones and transmitters installed?
[Yawn}
Another tragedy of living in the first world.
I guess this is the beginning of the eventual phase out of am/fm radios in cars. see:
http://spectator.org/articles/62450/end-amfm-radio
I prefer free am/fm than computer radio fees
Inevitable, I suppose. All part of the “march of progress”.
I remember when FM radio was on the ascendency — audiophiles preferred the much higher fidelity of FM over AM broadcasts.
FWIW (and I know it’s not much), I hosted an FM show on my university station, and that eventually led to a stint working as a deejay for a few years. (Less “creative” freedom; but being paid more than made up for that.)
Anyhow, the new technologies are better in many ways. With broadcast radio (AM or FM) there were limits to the number of stations — each became a “natural monopoly”. With a monopoly, you had stifling regulations, and very limited choices of content. Who knows, digital broadcasting might even usher in a new Golden Age of conservative talk radio.
If it is anything like HD TV signal propagation on the low VHF channels (2-6), it will be a train wreck.