If I didn’t know better, I’d say I was involved with a dying industry. I am speaking of broadcast. Since I do know better, let me say that the industry is merely morphing into something whose end product is difficult to predict.
Television broadcasters have collected millions of dollars for turning in their frequency assignments to be sold to wireless (cell phone) carriers. They may find a new home sharing frequency space with another broadcaster. Some of them are choosing to take the money and run and will cease being broadcasters. The move to share frequencies will be aided by the adoption of a new broadcast standard, ATSC 3.0. That move will obsolete the current inventory of over the air television receivers and require another
Neither are aural broadcasters on the ascendancy. “AM improvements” have been had largely by more congestion in the FM band with low power translator signals that carry the same service as the ailing AM counterpart. And the competition for ears is no longer just other broadcast signals. The decline in radio listening is based on other sources of music and entertainment provided through the internet. Local broadcasters who lack the solid local component in their programming are very vulnerable to losing ears