[BC] Making hard choices

[Cowboy]

On Friday 30 January 2009 07:04 am, Goran Tomas wrote:
>  This, a bit of a gloomy thread, begs a question - is there future in the
>  industry for the people just getting in, or those young enough who can
>  switch to other fields such as IT or pro audio? Is the radio broadcast
>  industry shrinking? What kind of future 10, 15 years ahead, can a young(er)
>  engineer, bitten by the radio bug, expect?
>  
>  I never believed the doom sayers, but I'm slowly starting to wonder if radio
>  really is becoming a sinking ship. A mean the average age of a broadcast
>  engineer is not decreasing, there are a very few young people, there are
>  less jobs and opportunities, the number of manufacturers, at least according
>  to NAB show, seems to be decreasing, this list seems to have less and less
>  optimistic opinions and people for that matter...
>  
>  Or is it just a temporary crisis?

 It's not temporary, it's changing.
 It's ALWAYS been changing, but we didn't notice so much until seemingly lately.

 Whether 10, 15, or 30 years I'm notoriously awful at predicting, but
 eventually it'll happen.

 My prediction is that there will continue to be studios, but not feeding
 transmitters directly. ( Internet, anyone ? )
 There will be transmitters transmitting, but not necessarily "radio" programs
 as we know them. ( extremely wide area WIFI perhaps ? )

 The skills will live on, but be used in vary different arenas.
 Television lives on.

 Remember, some of us were doing "digital" decades ago.
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Cowboy