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Jeff Kenyon <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Kenyon <[log in to unmask]>
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I have a feeling that it might go digital like TV did.

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> On Jan 30, 2020, at 5:21 PM, Ricky Lomey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> I certainly hope radio never goes totally online.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Colin Howard
> Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2020 23:56
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> Subject: [VICUG-L] Do you think radio will ever go totally on line?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> No, I don't.
> 
> There will always be satelite radio, I am sure radio broadcast over the air
> will remain in some form.
> 
> I certainly would not like to be restricted to online only, I enjoy the
> freedom of being able to carry my portable around and listen to good quality
> (at present mostly fm) as I reckon the DAB we use in the UK is inferior to
> the systems now being ported in Europe (DAB Plus) but maybe in time, we will
> adopt the better system, giving a much truer sound, better, even than our
> current fm facilities, which, I believe are very good considering it is now
> quite a deal over fifty years old!
> 
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:30:00 -0500, brian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> -As blind people we all enjoy free over the air radio for things like
> -sports news and talk.  I ask this because there is a man on mytelaspace
> -who has the all thing radio board.  He thinks that in about 20 or 30 -years
> from now over the air radio as we know it will be gone.  Do you -agree or
> not?  Do you want to have to always be online to listen to the -radio or do
> you want the portability of radio?  I would like to hear -your thoughts on
> this.  This is the 1 hundred anaversery of radio so -what do you see for the
> future of radio?  Radio has stood the test of -time unlike many
> technologiesdispite people predicting it's demise.  If -you listen to sports
> then you still need to have a radio because many -games are not being
> broadcasted on line.
> -
> -73
> -
> -n8mnx
> -
> -Brian Sackrider
> -
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