Mac World has a great list of apps for iPhone that will give you another way in to the expanding world of internet radio-
Click here to go to the article for info on Pandora, LastFM and AOL apps...still not what the guru is looking for. We need a way to listen to WCOM from their web stream. C'mon, where is it???
Wait...time passes, here it is, back at MacWorld.. oh oh no....her, yes here, Shoutcast for iPhone. I'm tunin' out here, tunin' in on my iT. Try it
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Broadcast radio audiences continue to decline- what is the future of radio? Here's the opinion of one Martin Bosworth, writing in ConsumerAffairs.com:
Let's face it -- radio stinks. It's 40 minutes of commercials, 10 minutes of annoying DJs looking to offend, and maybe 10 minutes of music.
And in that 10 minutes, you're bound to hear the same five artists multiple times, and the music will generally be the most inoffensive pablum imaginable. DJs are corrupted by payola and stations are driven by the profit motive to turn as much time over to advertising as possible.
This sorry state of affairs comes just as listeners have a broad array of new options -- satellite broadcasting, the iPod-driven culture of user-created playlists, and Internet radio stations like Pandora and Last.FM, raising real doubts about whether broadcast radio will be able to pull out of its slump and find its creative spark.
Many expect it to go the way of Betamax videotapes, cassette players, and laser discs.
That was pretty much the consensus at a recent Washington, D.C., panel discussion chaired by Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher, who recently published a book detailing the evolution of modern radio from the 50's to today.
Fisher joked that as a newspaper columnist who had published a book about the current state of radio, he found himself "grounded in three declining industries." He set the tone of the panel by playing a snippet of legendary radio DJ Alan Freed, saying that modern broadcast radio no longer provides "the thrill of discovering something new."
Joining Fisher on the Washington Jewish Music Festival panel were FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Harold Feld of the Media Access Project, and Lee Abrams, longtime radio programmer and current program director of Washington-based XM Radio.
