Radio is still important. (Score 1)

Radio is still a relevant technology, and will probably remain relevant for a long period of time. This is a simplistic article, and it talks about music and image being inseperatable, and goes on about the Music Industry only. It assumes that the only purpose of the radio is to play records, and that information can't be put on the radio. (Of course, it's written by MSNBC, so what do you expect).

Community Radio, on the other hand, is extremely important, since it serves to tie the community together and to play music and ideas not normally heard by the mainstream media. Similarly Campus-based Community Radio stations in Canada also live by this mandate. (College Stations to the US are also like this to a much, MUCH lesser degree.)

What's really interesting is what CMJ was going on about for their yearly conference about there being a job in "the business" when you graduate at their yearly conference for Music Directors at Campus station. It seems that the only thing that will die with radio is the radio promoters, since stations will just use file sharing to get the tracks they need anyway, top 40 or not, since they already pay the RIAA their tax.