I love streaming radio.
I know everyone is ga-ga over streaming video, and I agree that it’s great to see TV online for many reasons. However, my television gets great picture and sound. I can put it anywhere I like, and this will be the case.
As many of us experienced as children, though, this was not always the case. Anyone remember the rabbit ears covered with aluminum foil with a hanger sticking out to try to catch a couple of extra signals?
Well, this is STILL how most of us listed to radio. Yes, Satellite radio is available, and HD radio is finding its place. However, when my alarm goes off in the morning, I’m getting fresh radio waves. If I roll over juuusssttt right, I can actually hear what is being said through all the white noise.
This is one of the reasons we have radio streaming over the computer for the rest of the day. We can HEAR it! Better than that, though, is the incredible variety available at our fingertips when we stream radio online. Pretty much every radio station in the US (and many other countries) has an online stream available.
We can catch radio from different places, and in different time zones. This is handy when a syndicated show is on at different times across the nation. Even the best 1980’s short-wave can’t beat this clarity!
A new utility I would love to see would be a tv-guide-like website for streaming radio. This would show the hundreds (thousands?) of different radio stations available online, and their daily show list for a week. You could set it for your time zone and see what is available and when. Then, when you miss a syndicated radio show, you could look up the next time zone it’s in and listen to it from Cincinnati or Seattle or Honolulu. (you wouldn’t need to wait for any pod casts to be posted)
Streaming TV can’t beat streaming radio because there is nowhere near this amount of availability from TV stations. Radio is still a much more free and available form of media!
I know everyone is ga-ga over streaming video, and I agree that it’s great to see TV online for many reasons. However, my television gets great picture and sound. I can put it anywhere I like, and this will be the case.
As many of us experienced as children, though, this was not always the case. Anyone remember the rabbit ears covered with aluminum foil with a hanger sticking out to try to catch a couple of extra signals?
Well, this is STILL how most of us listed to radio. Yes, Satellite radio is available, and HD radio is finding its place. However, when my alarm goes off in the morning, I’m getting fresh radio waves. If I roll over juuusssttt right, I can actually hear what is being said through all the white noise.
This is one of the reasons we have radio streaming over the computer for the rest of the day. We can HEAR it! Better than that, though, is the incredible variety available at our fingertips when we stream radio online. Pretty much every radio station in the US (and many other countries) has an online stream available.
We can catch radio from different places, and in different time zones. This is handy when a syndicated show is on at different times across the nation. Even the best 1980’s short-wave can’t beat this clarity!
A new utility I would love to see would be a tv-guide-like website for streaming radio. This would show the hundreds (thousands?) of different radio stations available online, and their daily show list for a week. You could set it for your time zone and see what is available and when. Then, when you miss a syndicated radio show, you could look up the next time zone it’s in and listen to it from Cincinnati or Seattle or Honolulu. (you wouldn’t need to wait for any pod casts to be posted)
Streaming TV can’t beat streaming radio because there is nowhere near this amount of availability from TV stations. Radio is still a much more free and available form of media!
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