Doc Searls quotes Michael Rosenblum at a conference in Boston:

"Ice was a fantastic business, for two thousand years... they were probably having conferences like this, talking about ice ponds and straw and shipping routes..." Then in 1873 a guy named Perkins invented refrigeration. "And your ice business was dead."

When the public has their own transmitters, what's the need for a "public resource" like PBS? For that matter, all of radio is in danger, with the growth of satellite radio and podcasting. The supposedly scarce bandwidth just isn't so scarce any more. For radio to stay around, the people in that business need to figure out what niche they serve that the competition doesn't, or can't.

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