Radio Star rolls on

In this article it talks about how podcasting on the iPod will hurt internet radio because of “its portability, its intimacy and its accessibility.”

I don’t think that the iPod will necessarily kill anything off. In this case, it might be more of an accessory than anything else because the desire to listen to popular music will always be there and you will always have to pay 99 cents on iTunes for that . While listening to internet radio, or regular radio for that matter, may not let you choose the song that you want to listen to at that instant, it’s FREE.

People will always revert back to something that’s similar to what they have, like the iPod, when they don’t have to pay money for it. As long as radio can keep convincing advertisers that it has listenership, they will always be around.