Radio is a dieing media, and in Charlotte it's practically dead. TV is more exciting, and the internet, cellular included, is the wave of future. But it's a shame because radio as a technology is cool. It's fairly easy to broadcast it to a large number of people. It's actually "analog", at a time when even TV is digital. And don't even get me started on the HD-radio-oh-I-have-the-letters-"H"-"D"-in-my-name-so-I-must-be-better trash. Radio IS local. It IS part of YOUR community.
What do we have? Commercial Corporate Crap and Christian Channels.
WFAE looks great compared to everything else on our dial, but compare them to a WBAI or a WMNF.
A couple remote college stations come in when the atmospheric conditions are right...
Can anyone tell me the frequency of ONE pirate radio station in Charlotte?
Radios are cheap. Your car has one. You can probably figure out how to build one yourself if you never have. (Try to build a device that can receive and decode a cellular internet stream from scratch.) I'm reminded of the imbeciles in Idiocracy that watered their crops with Gatorade. Technology is great, but only if it solves problems -- not creates them.
We have this excellent technology - radio - that's being unused. Why? Is it because Charlotteans love to listen to the same stale music that Nsenga was referring to? And then go out and buy junk from the advertisers so they can stay in business?
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