Digital Dude Harshes on Radio’s Future
His name is Shelly Palmer and he’s an authority about living and working in a world gone digital. During a recent keynote address to radio industry people, he opined that music radio has no business to exist anymore. The effect was like a drunken Ricky Gervais at an Oscar party.
I can’t say that I disagree with a lot of what he says about automobiles and cell phones, but I think he’s a little pessimistic about the future of radio. Maybe in the US where they’ve managed to really f**k things up. But in Canada and the UK? No. At least not yet.