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Old 01.04.2020, 11:12 AM   #23
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another horrible curse before digital streaming was high dependence on local radio stations, which could be great if you lived in a great town, could be awful if you lived in a hick town, could disappear or change format, etc

e.g. the university of the district of columbia has a jazz studies program to this day, but up until 1997 they also ran a radio station, “jazz 90”, which was a beautiful thing because they wouldn’t just play great jazz, they would also tell stories and explain things and theory in a way you could not know before wikipedia and they played great great music and brought amazing guests. dc is still a jazz town.

then one day due to city budget cuts the university was forced to sell the fucking radio station! and dc got... cspan radio [insert suicide emoji]. could have been worse because a religious station wanted to buy the frequency. cspan is boring as fuck but makes sense in what’s basically a government town. still... huge loss.

now, thank fuck, not only do you not need radio per se, but you can listen to radio stations from around the world without having to operate a shit-ass shortwave set.
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