Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
Growing up in the 90s you could tell when digitification came in - radios and tvs started to take forever to change stations. Radios used to be <i>mechanical</i> devices - punch a button and the new station would <i>immediately</i> start playing.  Same for tvs.<p>I feel like the invisible degradation of responsiveness in TV and radio is an un-noticed contributor to their decline.  Most of the time I don't bother even scannig the airwaves when I get to a new town cause it's too annoying.<p>More generally it seems like when industries are growing, there is competition in this kind of area, but later on this dies off.  I wonder if there's a structural reason for this?