Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio
I know I am properly a outlier but how many people on HN actually listens to radio over FM/DAB/Other non IP systems?I dont remember when I last listened to radio. Even in the car the entertainment is one or more of the following from the connected phone:- Streaming or locally stored music
- Podcasts (which may include shows produced by radio stations).
- Audiobooks.At home its the same, either played directly on the playback device (sonos) or from the phone.I really dont see the allure of flow radio, I hate listening to something I have no control over and if there are commercials its even worse.For my sake they could shutdown all radio broadcasts and use the bandwidth for mobile broadband. (Ok, maybe keep a single station running for emergency broadcasts).