Any thoughts or experience on the current and future of FM radio?


A bit of "thinking out loud" here.  I have enjoyed and learned much from radio in my life.  First AM rock and roll and then FM Jazz.  My question is where do things go from here?  Broadcast FM, internet music, FM stations with an internet site and anything more you can think of.

I, like most on this site, have the sound quality and as close to the original recording as possible being my pursuit.  I am more on the consumer side and would have interest in hearing anyone's take on what the future may have in store.  From LPs to 8-tracks and cassettes and various digital discs, redbook sacd etc, I have traveled the road most of you have and am hopeful that the future has an old term in mind "high fidelity". 

whatjd
I haven’t listened in years. My local station long ago became similar to MTV....talk and ads. Once I started streaming in my truck, well, I never reset the presets after a battery change. I don’t have a tuner in my main system at all, and come to think of it, don’t have a single radio in the house. The last time I pulled the blanket off the TV was to watch the Superbowl.
If any of you have local, small college radio stations...I have found some to be a haven for good programing.  Like most NPR/independent stations, they will need your support, but ten dollars a year from enough listeners will keep them on the air.  I am lucky enough to have a small community college station that is a Jazz haven.  
Remember when...

McIntosh published the FM station guide ?

and yes University radio stations can be so cool
I just sent my money yesterday to the Mpls-St Paul  NPR  Classical
which is the best in the country  . St Paul studios send out to over 100 other stations and many Europeans as well .
schubert, thank you for your support of your NPR station.  Not to be over dramatic, but NPR is a ray of light in a sea of....well, you know what it is a sea of.