Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When television came out, there was concern it would kill radio.
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.
The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.