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I listen to Radio3 and occasionally Lyric. No ads, barely does news. I used to listen to resonsncefm a lot, used to be more interesting for experimental music / sound art

Lyric is fantastic, one of the few stations that actually keeps the focus on music.

There was a show called blue of the night, I always liked that one.

Don't know it. When is it on? I'll look it up. Live radio hits different.

Monday through to Thursday 9pm until Midnight. Although there's a new host of the show, the previous guy was better.

I'd listen to it more if it was on my FM or my crappy DAB (non internet radio). I like a dedicated radio device as a separate source and not my laptop :)

Would you use a mobile application if it could stream? Bluetooth to a speaker?

I know there's apps like Spotify but I'm thinking a Nostr based platform that works like Tidal, Spotify etc but isn't behind the walled garden

I'd probably be better off with some sort of Bluetooth speak, rather than just my laptop speakers lol.

I do like FM radio, DAB is also p alright and tbh I would probably like one of those internet connected radios.

But nothing really beats old school radiowaves and live radio, ie not podcasts.

I agree completely. But radio has been co-opted, consolidated and formatted so that it is no longer free expression. All licenses are controlled and centralized.

If we could recreate the experience of FM and a one click UI to play the content. I think it would catch on. Needs to user supported through zaps and donations. Advertising would kill it. Also should be listener driven, program director watches zaps as "votes" for song choice, genre and sound design.

Beerborn 2y ago

Podcasts. All the good stuff about radio, (almost) none of the crap

Radio died in the mid 2000s. It was terminal in 1997, when audio streaming took hold. Their only reason for clinging to life was, the streamers had not found a way to monetize. Radio, TV, Print, Music, Hollywierd, all became so complacent that they forgot who their audience was. I don't think they ever cared. As for radio, consultants moved in, centralized the formats and made every station (in the respective format) sound identical. Hair Rock, Country Pop, Easy Listening, etc. The same songs played coast to coast, any town you tuned into, the format (no live DJ, jump cuts, station IDs after every song) all sounded the same.

We need to reinvent radio and I think #Nostr is the place to do it. I'm starting some test streams in the next few days, I would appreciate any feedback. Follow my npub and I'll post when the stream goes live.

Not trying to shill btw, this is my hot button. I went into streaming in 1995 to disrupt the industry. As for damage to their reputations, that has all been self inflicted.

Hey man , thanks for the lengthy reply, you really care about this. I think the presenter of the show can really bring something to the show if they have decent banter skills. All that has been sucked out of the radio, and ironically , its the only thing that could have saved it; making it real again.

You nailed it! That is what radio was about. DJs were celebrities and you had your favorites. There was interaction with the listener, phone in requests, dedications, contests etc.

When FM started to gain traction, it was the antithesis to AM "top 40" programming. A deep smokey voice introduced an album side and let it play, even with the breaks between song cuts.

Today, FM is so commercialized it is unpalatable.

As the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out. So there needs to be a lot of accountability with the recording industry. They are looking for a 13-week flash in the pan, then on to the next. Artists are not developed, they're cloned and that is why song factories produce "millennial woop" ear worms. If they have their way, the new hits will be 15 sec and the next "pop star" will emerge from Tik Tok.

MRGA