News would keep us informed and Mystery Theater would keep us entertained on the drive back home, exhausted, on Sunday evenings.
He's old now, but drove to Wyoming to fish last year from southern California. He said the fishing wasn't any good when he got there, so he turned around and came home before the next day dawned. I wonder what he will listen to this Spring.
replace it with realtime betting by the viewers (on news or on some game video)
and cat hybrid can be telling the news.
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 subscribe to an expensive satellite service that is probably worse than the one that ended.
Broadcast radio and TV is (and newspaper, and telephone lines) are, ironically, a more resilient and distributed form of information distribution than the internet in many ways. The internet itself becomes the bottleneck; the power-law distributed control becomes the bottleneck; the devices (and all their security and psychological downsides) become terrible yet indispensable.
For every middle manager gung ho to replace paper with an iPad and an app, I say: find something else to do with your time. You're making the world actively worse.
Canada to Shut Down Its VHF Weather Radio Service
https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/canad...
I know correlation isn't causation, but damn, that feels really on the nose.
> But because of “a shift in radio station programming strategies” and “challenging economic realities,”
From the inside, a complete failure to modernize off the terrestrial satellite network, weak investments in reporting technologies and equipment, and a completely mismanaged web strategy which sacrificed brand identity and invention for lame SEO gamesmanship and wacky wordpress plugins.
They decided somewhere in 2015 that they were done with radio and effectively just gave up. This has been the slowest shoe to drop but it has been inevitable for a while.
Reads almost like the NYT is bragging about itself contributing to the shutdown?
they could like a lot of other radios start broadcasting on the web and publish programs on podcasts, earning nice moeny.
