The Dave Bowman Show
The Dave Bowman Show
Who Killed Radio? How Podcasts Set the Personalities Free
28 minutes Posted Aug 31, 2026 at 7:00 am.
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Radio has supposedly been dying for decades. The towers are still standing and the signals are still broadcasting, but the audience is no longer trapped inside the range of the transmitter.
Corporate consolidation stripped away local voices while podcasts and livestreaming gave those voices somewhere else to go. The personalities escaped the station, the listeners followed them, and the dashboard became an open marketplace.
In this episode of The Dave Bowman Show: Who killed radio, and is it really dead?