Perhaps it's time to revoke all broadcast licences and yank broadcast radio off the air. It seems to me that the precious radio spectrum could be better utilized to blanket the country with cheap Internet broadband.
I have only come to the conclusion since getting a smartphone. Up until quite recently, I had sort of fallen out of favour with radio. I was hardly an active listener anymore. It's strange that I listen more than ever now, especially as not a minute has been via a traditional transmitter and receiver. Since cheap 3G, I listen to a lot of radio, some local but much from far-away distances. I'm not talking here of services such as Pandora but real radio where announcers and inane commercials interrupt the news and music. It's just that whether at home through the home theatre system's speakers or by my phone's ear-buds, I listen via TuneIn.
Now, on the recently upgraded Android app, many stations carry the name of the tunes being played. I notice that on my Nexus One, with the newest version, album art automatically appears for most common songs.
I can get a world-wide selection of stations and more accurate information with Internet radio.
