The Death of a Radio Pioneer Lorenzo Milam, 1933-2020

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6. Religious radio and syndicated hate radio needs to be booted into outer space.

Current radio bands could be converted to digital as television was, which would allow anyone willing to pay the power bill to open a radio station, much as anyone can create their own web site. All ground stations could be required to have local ownership and 60% locally produced content.

Opening a radio station would be as easy a buying a transmitter and signing some FCC paperwork agreeing to abide by a few simple regulations. The transmitter would be programmed to do the rest.

I support our local public radio station partly because I don't want the channel to be taken over by "Christian" radio.

Christian radio is intolerable to me. In college I shared an apartment with a guy who had it on constantly whenever he was there. I'd rather sleep in the library or under a bush than suffer that.

It's possible traditional radio and television are dead and don't know it yet. My adult children and their cousins don't pay any attention at all to it. Everything they listen to comes from their cell phones. They 'cast podcasts and music to their car and house speakers.