«A rádio é o único meio que não muda de forma com o digital»(?)

ATENÇÃO A ESTA IDEIA: the experience of AM/FM listening can be delivered perfectly and unchanged via the Internet.??? 

«New distribution channels expand radio's ability to meet consumer demand for our content where they want it, and when they want it," Haley said. "Radio is uniquely positioned to do this because radio is the only medium that does not change its form when you move from channel to channel. Print and video are different experiences when they move from digital -- radio is not. The Rolling Stones still sound like the Rolling Stones, no matter the channel."» (CEO of the Radio Advertising Bureau, Jeff Haley)

fonte: 'Audio Content Is Expanding Everywhere You Look', Radio Ink, 13/02/08

A afirmação já provocou polémica: para Mark Ramsey, «This is not just wrong, but shockingly so. Jeff, any time you move from one medium to another you change the message. This is Marshall McLuhan 101. The issue is not whether the Rolling Stones sound like the Rolling Stones across media (although it’s interesting that you picked a band best known for its output in the 60’s and 70’s), the issue is what it means to be “radio” when you exist across media and where each medium has different potentialities that extend well beyond audio alone.» Para Kurt Hansen, «What Jeff was saying was that the experience of AM/FM listening can be delivered perfectly and unchanged via the Internet. And that is absolutely correct. For sitting on your sofa listening to the local Smooth Jazz station, it doesn’t matter if the radio in the room is an FM radio or a PC playing the station’s stream. The listening experience is identical. Close your eyes, and you can’t tell the difference. This is not true for print. If one wants to curl up the sofa with one’s sweetie, drink coffee together, and read the Sunday New York Times, flipping through some sections quickly, savoring others, etc., you can’t replicate that experience using NYT.com.  Similarly, watching TV is a much different experience online. You’re not going to be watching an HD picture in surround sound on your 54” plasma TV — at least not in 2008.»