Article written by Backstage Lounge
Whenever the talk of radio comes up, people always jump straight to talking about the music. Although the music is important, many broadcasters are still using radio as their second voice for broadcasting their thoughts and opinions to listeners. Political radio has been a big income stream for radio stations for years, so when things moved towards an online platform, it became harder for people to connect with their talk radio host favorites.
Although things look a little grim for radio host pundits who only broadcast their opinions and not any sort of music, podcasts and online radio have actually opened up a number of new possibilities that weren’t originally thought possible. Bloggers and writers can now establish podcasts that they publish weekly for their listeners to download and take with them on the go. It’s like tuning into your favorite radio station to hear someone talk, but on your own time.
Even though top 40 is what generally dominates the conversation, smaller niches like jazz music sometimes get forgotten about. Online radio stations have allowed people to tune into exactly what they want to listen to without having to be at a physical radio exactly at the right time to hear what they want to hear. The internet lets people listen to what they want, when they want, and on whatever device they’d like to listen to it on. People who once had a voice now have a completely different medium to communicate on, and people who never had radio shows to begin with now have the option to start recording their opinions for the world to hear with little to no upfront costs.
