A rádio do futuro discutida pelo senado EUA

O futuro da rádio é o tema de uma audição promovida pelo senado dos Estados Unidos.

Chamo a atenção para o depoimento do fundador do Pandora:

«In one sense multimedia convergence has already blurred the line between traditional ‘terrestrial radio’, Internet radio, mobile radio, cable radio, satellite radio and even community radio. For example:

1. Your mobile phone today can transmit a "webcast", and with a $2 adaptor you can listen to that Internet radio through your car stereo.
2. You can start a "community" radio station on the Internet and while content is focused locally, an audience is available (and may actually listen) globally.
3. Your car stereo today comes pre-loaded with AM/FM and perhaps XM, but in only a few years cars will have WiMAX broadband access and you will be able to enjoy Internet radio directly and throw away the adaptor I just spoke of.

To a listener who is hearing a single station at a given time, it is just radio and their choices are amazing – which content do I want to hear, when do I want to hear it, and on what device?