submitted 6 days ago by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

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I am mid-40s. My daughter is 11. I take her to school, among other driving things, and usually play NPR. Whenever she needs to refer to what she's hearing -- usually to ask if I'll turn it off so she can pull up some godawful thing where a random Youtuber squawks discordant lyrics to a Pokémon video game score -- she calls it a podcast. I've stopped correcting her, particularly since most of the "shows" release as podcasts by the next day anyway.

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[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Sounds familiar. Our kids (9 and 7) asked us at dinner the other night what "over the air" meant and what "radio" was. All they know is streaming.

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

WiFi and Cellular are also OTA .. just you can make your own bubble and to interact with the uplink bubble .. I mean you can do it with Broadcast radio too but they get mad ..

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

Not surprising. I'm 36 and it feels strange when someone talks about "radio", "over the air", "cable tv" and similar old technologies. It's only been like 10 years since those still existed but it already feels like ancient past.

Can't speak about everywhere in the world, but broadcast media is pretty much dead. Radio still exists because of cars, but even that is moving towards streaming.