Bye Bye Indie 103.1 (Los Angeles)

[Adam]

Not sure who listened to it, but Indie 103.1 went dark today, and moved to the web.

Sadness - it was good radio. When I listened to commercial radio, it was the only station that I listened to.

No more Jonesie's Jukebox

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/risky-business...its-course.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog...die-1031-h.html

http://www.indie1031.com/

http://idolator.com/5133238/the-demise-of-...ographics-fault

[BruceH]

Is broadcast radio going the way of print journalism?

[ejp626]

Is broadcast radio going the way of print journalism?

If you mean homogenized and dumbed down, then yes. If you mean will it just disappear, I doubt it. It is much easier to force people to listen to the commercials on the radio. Sure more people are moving to internet radio (or Sirius) but I think the cost/hassle factor is high enough that enough people will stick with commercial radio. I think newspapers were particularly vulnerable since they have had a much narrower subscriber base for a couple of decades (far more people just get their news from tv) and their subscribers were precisely the people most likely to move to on-line news distribution.