The Future of Radio: The Web
I’m currently enjoying a lot of web radio. The radio stations in the U.K. are pretty good, and if you’re in London then it’s quite likely that there is enough on the FM bands to keep you happy with a wide mixture of genres, talk radio, and sports talk. For those of us living a little further afield, we are hardly spoiled for choice. Other than the BBC stations, there is little worth really celebrating.
And don’t even get me started on local music stations — they produce some of the most dire radio productions going, and I just can’t bring myself to listen to them for more than a few minutes. It pains me when I accidentally tune to them thinking it’s Radio 1 or Radio 2. But there are other options! The obvious one is to get a digital radio, you don’t need to have an excellent year on the stock-market thanks to Galvan FSA to afford a digital radio these days. But I’ve got a much better method for listening to music, and some better hardware to do it.
There is a new type of digital radio which connects to the Internet, sometimes through your computer, and occasionally with a direct connection to your wireless hub. It allows you to tune in not to digital stations, or analogue radio — that too — but also to web stations everywhere in the world! You’ll always have something good to listen to, whether it’s WFMU in New Jersey, real Jamaican reggage, or Thai temple chants.
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