Marko Ala-Fossi
Marko Ala-Fossi is University Lecturer in the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the University of Tampere, Finland. His research interests include media policy, political economy and social shaping of new media delivery technologies and the future of public service broadcasting.
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This article studies how 43 people in key positions related to the radio industry in four European countries and Canada view the future of radio and which delivery technologies they consider will be most successful. In addition, it analyzes the motives and reasons why certain technologies are seen as more promising. Finally, it presents different future scenarios for radio media."
However, instead of having abandoned TV for new media, people are actually using their traditional TV sets even more like before. Rather than being a victim of technological obsolescence, the problem of the TV fee is its diluting social acceptance due to a growing dominance of a neoliberal media paradigm. "
A evolução do rádio depende em grande parte não apenas dos contextos culturais de um país mas também do desenvolvimento social, político e econômico geral das sociedades. Somado a isso, ela acontece no intercâmbio com todas as outras formas de mídia, e esse é o motivo pelo qual não há uma evolução do rádio que seja ou isolada ou universal. A importância crescente da internet e o aumento da popularidade da banda larga móvel, em conjunto com mudanças econômicas e demográficas em curso numa escala global, continuam a ter efeito polarizador: possivelmente o rádio já teve seu auge no mundo ocidental, enquanto na Ásia e África ele ainda tem um potencial enorme de crescimento.
[The evolution of radio is highly dependent not only on the national cultural contexts but also on the overall social, political and economic development of the societies. In addition, it happens in interplay with all the other forms of media and this is why there is no universal or separate evolution of radio. The growing importance of the Internet and increasing popularity of mobile broadband together with the ongoing economic and demographic changes on a global scale continue to have a polarized effect: in the Western world, broadcast radio may have already had its all-time high, while in Asia and Africa, broadcast radio has still a huge potential for growth. ]"
ownership concentration after the Telecom Act of 1996 and the new digital technology. This view is very common among radio scholars and industry professionals – as well as journalists who write about radio media in the US. Some critics argue that this new form of corporate radio, owned by enormous, publicly traded companies, has changed radio’s economic power structure so that these giants may now – using the latest in digital technology – transform what had been lively and local commercial radio into a sheer generic commodity. Local productions have been replaced with syndicated content and in the smaller markets many stations are programmed
with pseudo-local and pseudo-live pre-recorded content, using the method of computerized, remote voice tracking also known as “cyber-jocking”.
Desde la primera línea, el lector se dará cuenta de la enorme complejidad que rodea todo lo que se refiere al espectro, desde ámbitos distintos como la ingeniería, la política, la economía o la comunicación. Por sí solo, el espectro sería un magnífico estudio de caso para ejemplificar la multiplicidad, diversidad y complicación presentes cada vez que hay que que ponerse de acuerdo sobre algún aspecto relacionado con él.