This social media post/image hits it on the head, what radio was and what is has evolved to, digging its grave in the process.

This is a public post, you should be able to click through and read the whole article.

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Walk into a radio station in the early 1960s and you didn’t just hear it…
You felt it.
Phones rang. Music spilled into the hallways. Air talent reacted in real time—laughing, missing cues, stretching moments because something felt right. It wasn’t perfect.
It was alive.
Now fast-forward to 2026.
The sound is cleaner. The clocks are tighter. The music is researched, tested, optimized.
And yet… something feels farther away.
Not worse.
Just… less human.