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Is it 'Radio' When it's Online? [message #79144]

Wed, 29 January 2014 06:31

Iceage
Messages: 45
Registered: January 2014

Baron

Just reading through the forum as I've just registered, and the thought occurred to me. Radio, the name, was descriptive. Nowadays the online radio stations are becoming more popular, but really they are streaming stations, not radio. I know they do the same job and that the name is inherited, but it's not really 'radio', is it?

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Re: Is it 'Radio' When it's Online? [message #79145 is a reply to message #79144]

Wed, 29 January 2014 10:18

gofar99
Messages: 1949
Registered: May 2010
Location: Southern Arizona

Illuminati (5th Degree)

Hi, A valid question. But since many of the real radio stations used to stream programs on the networks before. In this case is seems the difference is the method of delivery not what is delivered. The same goes ffor TV, what few stations actually transmit now get their stuff from the nets. They pretty much always did.

Good Listening
Bruce

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Re: Is it 'Radio' When it's Online? [message #79172 is a reply to message #79144]

Thu, 30 January 2014 10:20

Iceage
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Registered: January 2014

Baron

I think that the difference with TV though is that it is still broadcast-it goes over the airwaves still. Radio by definition is transmission wirelessly, through the airwaves. Streaming, online radio very much uses wires in it's transmission. The name has kind of just been grandfathered since it's the evolution of radio as it once was.

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Re: Is it 'Radio' When it's Online? [message #79197 is a reply to message #79144]

Fri, 31 January 2014 21:00

timron
Messages: 251
Registered: March 2012

Grand Master

Technically, radio describes music that is being broadcast over radio waves, right? So I guess the streaming stuff that's being broadcast over the internet technically isn't radio... it's cable. Right? I mean, don't most of us access the internet via cable connections?

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Re: Is it 'Radio' When it's Online? [message #79293 is a reply to message #79144]

Wed, 05 February 2014 04:48

Iceage
Messages: 45
Registered: January 2014

Baron

Other than the last chunk of it which most commonly is over WiFi, which is a form of radio. I guess that this is just a name that we're all so familiar with that it doesn't need changing.

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