I am not psychic nor am I a visionary, except that I just had a psychic vision of the future.
I've said it before, half in jest, but after spending 30-minutes at radio-locator.com visiting a few U.S. cities, I see a pattern leading toward the future I have previously described.
What's more, the forums and comments being made here on this website in recent weeks are part of the large transcendental change already in progress. We are, all of us, being driven by a spirit of the time toward an entire re-mapping and redefining of radio in the Homeland.
The mass of licensed stations, translators, school stations, boosters, translators and part 15 voices pressing for room on a bloated dial are part of an evolutionary pattern.
Not even the FCC has the power to stall the tsunami of change taking place.
Cities have become littered with radio stations ranging from 1 Watt and less up to 100,000 Watts, losing advertisers and funders by the day.
Meanwhile, from the bottom, from the grassroots, individuals are demanding control of their own radio stations to finally represent what it is they want of radio.
The monopolistic radio magnate sitting in a luxury office in New York is out on the street. He has been outsourced to the audience, which is you and me.
Every individual in The Homeland shall one day operate his/her own radio station.
If programmers, advertisers, religions, want to reach an audience, they'll need to negotiate with millions of home radio stations through representatives like the ALPB, who will arrange bulk-buys of air time from all the private stations.
WE, you and I, you and me, all of us here at part15(dot)us are the leading edge of radio tomorrow!