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xnyanyesterday at 9:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

You're making an apples to oranges comparison. If you can send a signal via a radio between continents, one can send a podcast using that signal with zero infrastructure between the sender and the receiver.


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kube-systemyesterday at 10:47 PM

A podcast is an audio program delivered over the internet, which requires quite a bit of intermediary infrastructure regardless of the layer 1 medium.

When you deliver the raw audio over RF, it is called a radio program, which is what CBS has stopped broadcasting.

LunaSeayesterday at 9:52 PM

The throughput and bandwidth necessary for "podcasting" is many times greater than simple radio

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