Big changes are happening to the airwaves, part of the frenetic technological revolution that’s been unleashed by the development of a digital language.
Big changes are happening to the airwaves, part of the frenetic technological revolution that’s been unleashed by the development of a digital language. Radio, against expectations, is proving itself a vital force in these fast-moving times, because it’s flexible, adaptable and still compelling. The human voice, the imagination of sound, will endure when perhaps TV will fade out, evolving into another kind of internet exchange.
Wireless itself now means something quite different from those first crystal receivers, but nothing it seems can kill off that intimate connection between the person behind the microphone and the ear of the listener. In this time of cuts and more cuts, though, which of the BBC’s stations will still be around in 2021?
Radio 1 has just given itself a huge boost to its argument for survival by raising £2,406,648 for Comic Relief through the efforts of Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave, its breakfast-show hosts.
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