March 8ths
3/8/2002 It was the advent of FM radio that made a big impact on how music developed in the late 60s and 70s. 3/8/2010 Show on the death of radio: I too “heard it on the X”—Chicago’s XRT. That was the station I listened to when I picked up my first guitar. It was an auspicious beginning of my music education and vestiges of it remain in my work. But nostalgia aside, I will not miss broadcast radio. XRT is now just a shell of its former self, consisting of a mostly relentless and torturous barrage of screaming commercials. I now time-shift almost all my media with podcasts, which I can re-listen to at any time, and it still sounds like broadcast radio. The profit model in this approach is that people like me are willing to pay for this service, as a return to radio in its current state is unthinkable. [3/8/2025: The early days of podcasting, like the early days of anything, were its best in some ways. But as we see with everything these days, particularly YouTube, it’s so infested with ...
