Is Radio dead?

I believe that radio is still relevant in today’s society. I believe that if it weren’t for some renovations to the way which radio is presented than it would no longer be relevant to people looking for some form of entertainment today. When TV news became more popular than radio news; the radio industry began playing music which is something that TV couldn’t do on a daily basis.

Radio also died when sitcoms came to television. People used to flock around the radio to listen to soap-operas, comedies, and even horror stories which were read over the am and fm channels. Television stole that audience by being able to add a visual to the words which helped people understand and get into the story they were watching. To combat this radio continued to play music which even (early) MTV could not play music as often as the radio does.

Another way the radio evolved to keep up with the television is the invention of XM Satellite radio. XM radio uses satellites to broadcast hundreds of different radio stations across the world. The fact that someone in Somalia can listen to the same XM station that someone in Los Angeles is listening to has helped keep the radio alive. Although one has to pay to keep an XM subscription, the advantages of it are that no commercials are played on that particular station and that it is (for the most part) completely un-censored.

Although it has seemed that radio could have died many times in the past hundred years, it has become a medium that people still crowd around, mostly at work, and it does help get people through the day. it is also still used when people are stuck driving to work. People rely on the radio to know the weather and check the traffic reports. Radio is by no means a dead medium.