I'm going to limit my comments not to radio but to community and campus-based radio.
I think you could be right; FM might become less and less important. That being said, I think there is always going to be a need for community centres, where people can come together and produce content. I'm sure you haven't heard a lot about radio, but you probably have heard a lot about content. Basically we're all doing a version of that. You know there's this idea that with YouTube and with podcasting, why do we need community radio? We had these centres because people came there and it was because it was too expensive to have the equipment themselves.
In fact, there's that stereotype about the guy in his basement podcasting, and it's true. He's sending out something, but who is listening? When you have a community centre, that's where people can come to. I just think that where we're going is a version of where we're at, which is that we have a space where people know. It's a trusted, credible community access centre, whether or not we do it online or FM or continue to do both of those.
In terms of keeping FM, something that a lot of our smaller rural community stations are doing is emergency broadcasting, which is huge. Last year, CHLS, which is in Lillooet, got to do emergency broadcasting when the forest fire evacuations were happening.
It has happened in the States where Clear Channel bought up so many stations that people didn't know when there were emergencies in their own communities, because they were hearing a national broadcast. Our stations are grounded in their community, so whatever happens, they're going to be there to say this bridge is closed and don't go here, and all of those things. I think that's where we're going. We're not sure about what the content is, but we're sure about what we do and how we want to do it.