Compelling set, and this month's issue presents an important survey (and critique) of radio as the idea of broadcast inexorably morphs into what we thought we always wanted, and yet again not.
For a rapidly-dwindling elder cohort entering this third decade, "radio" was, and is only, amplitude- or frequency-modulation. Transmitters slapped on a mountainside, antennas dotting the landscape, transistorized plastic boxes. And as we know, dictionaries are not rulebooks, but records of use, and "radio" is vastly, conclusively and irretrievably digital and online. Leaving the heady Ekverse topic aside, since all ptp involves streaming at the endpoint level, radio forms a compact--at its best, a bond between trusted advisor and listener.
Also leaving the commercial question aside, which is not germane to issue 449 or the mission of community radio and exploration of content. As a personal example, my divorce from American FM was finalized around '79 or so, when commercial offerings were comparatively light years ahead of today. As a young person with a shortwave, I experimented idly, but inklings of something wider kept filtering through the muck. Recollection of standing on a beach in Venice, mid-80s with a fellow traveler, Australian and his transistor: "you Americans have really great radio!" Umm, no, not at all, really (LA was somewhat tolerable at that time, but still) but I wondered then how dire or good programming was in other lands.
So ResonanceFM and many others extend that original wireless compact (ironic morph again, from the Marconi days). Exemplary.

cheers GH