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Nine Radio CEO says "our broadcasters are now available anywhere, anytime, anyhow – through apps and smart speakers. The ubiquity and mobility of radio has never been stronger.”
Really?!!
Commercial radio has Zero, Nil, Nada presence on digital TVs, the one-stop province of millions of cashed up baby boomers. Lockdown will have only swelled thid 'captive audience' who will have discovered around 15 digital radio stations from the ABC and SBS. Even that took more around 10 years of lobbying the public broadcasters.
Overseas of course, you can get all public and commercial radio on TVs.
While successive lemon Communications Ministers from Richard Alston onwards held Australia back in an embarrassing analogue backwater for internet, telephone and broadcasting, the is no excuse today.
Backward Australia.
Hi rcubed. Even if the new Australian RADIOAPP is not yet available on all smart TV's, you can stream it from your phone or desktop through either AirPlay or Android. My two-year-old LG has the old MyTuner on board which works just as well. Cheers Ed.