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...iPod has increased, people have become ever-so dependent on their personal music-playing devices. The ability to carry one’s personal collection around, accessing old favorites and recently downloaded hits at the slight shift of a thumb, has replaced the frustration of waiting for your favorite radio station to play your song of choice...
Sports fans, too, have discovered the next generation of radio. We as college students often find ourselves far out of the range of catching the broadcast of our favorite team at home. We can usually catch the game on satellite, however. That’s something that shouldn’t be taken lightly—in a world of constant interstate travel, broadcast radio just isn’t enough...
...while it may seem as if the transition is apparent for drivers—in the car is where satellite has seen much of its success thus far—the radio has all but drawn its last breath in conventional homes, too. Radio was what ushered us into the generations of in-home broadcast entertainment, but the stakes are infinitely higher today. The television has long since taken its spot as the king of the home entertainment system, but now, radio doesn’t even play second fiddle...
...Internet trumped radio in the case of Imus’ comments, and in pretty much every other way, too. It’s a quick YouTube search—not a re-broadcast at a random time on a random radio station—that allows anyone to hear the comments themselves. The radio is where the controversy started, but it will surely finish elsewhere...
It’s a bit sad to see the radio go—countless memorable historical moments were conveyed via the little box with the silver antenna—and it will surely have a place with other nostalgic mediums of yesteryear, alongside the VHS, cassette tape, and the also-dying low-definition television...