My bet is, the cycle will come around and the airwaves will matter. Perhaps not for broadcasting music, but the owners of the frequencies will get the last laugh. What I can't understand is, given that we live in the age of streaming music, iPods, YouTube, Pandora, etc -- who CARES what's on the FM dial??? -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Pultz" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Folk Music in America > "C'mon guys, these are businesses." > > A-yup. And that's why today they hardly matter. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of Steven Smolian > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:08 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Folk Music in America > > The CD reduced the costs of operating a radio station considerably. The drive to CD on classical > radio was convenience. As with why libraries also ditched their records, minor scratches didn't' > t happen as often, equipment maintenance was much reduced including cleaning records, dealing with > needles and the whole record-playing ceremony. CD content could be sent to and accessed from > servers. Cataloging came with them. Engineering became simplified as did program administration- > no one had to time records anymore. If a server was sued, no refilling was necessary. C'mon > guys, these are businesses. > > Steve Smolian > >