The Internet has been a game changer.
These words open Chapter 4 but I repeat them here because of the huge effect that this digital web has had on radio. It has radically affected both its transmission and its reception. It is possible now to do without complex studios and power-hungry transmitters, and the output of music and speech from almost anywhere in the world can be received on a small handheld device, so that refugees fleeing from their Middle-Eastern homeland, out of range of their country’s transmitters, can still keep in touch on a cell phone.
The trend to ever smaller devices, with intuitive functions, providing more and more services, will continue. Consumers want user-friendly gadgets that will slip ...
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